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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Amazon Boardman Exascale Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Amazon Web Services
- Address and locality
- Boardman · Morrow County · Oregon
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 12 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000127
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- PacifiCorp (Pacific Power)
- Power source
- Hydro
- Cooling
- Hybrid
- Land area
- 1,300 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 560 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- March 2026
Provider notes
Energy. PacifiCorp (Pacific Power) is the local retail utility in Morrow County; AWS filed power complaints against PacifiCorp in November 2025 regarding insufficient capacity. BPA Columbia River hydroelectric generation underlies the Oregon grid and is a major component of what PacifiCorp delivers. AWS claims 95% renewable sourcing in Oregon. AWS also holds wind PPA (Leaning Juniper IIA, 98.4 MW) in same county.
Water. Reflects Amazon's documented Oregon cooling practice — primarily free-air cooling with evaporative assist, with up to ~96% of cooling water returned to local farmers. Planning documents model roughly 35 million gallons/year for the full 1 GW campus (a projection). The specific cooling design for this proposed campus is not confirmed.
Community. Morrow County Planning Commission approved Amazon's 'PDX154' land-use application (816,000 sq ft / 4 buildings, part of the broader campus) on March 31, 2026 with conditions attached (stormwater/wastewater mitigation, airport-lighting restrictions).
What the source record says
Amazon confirmed the land purchase ($37M per Morrow County property records, confirmed by multiple news sources) but stated development plans are not final. Planning documents submitted to Morrow County describe a 1 GW exascale campus with 20 buildings across 4 million sq ft; Johnson Economics estimated $8B-$12B total investment. Land previously owned by Threemile Canyon Farms dairy. Distinct from Amazon's existing ~800 acres of operating/under-construction OR facilities. Lincoln Chronicle source URL returned 403 on fetch — primary claim supported by DCD source. energy.utility corrected from 'Bonneville Power Administration' (wholesale) to 'PacifiCorp (Pacific Power)' (retail utility). Coordinates are Boardman city centroid; exact site not publicly confirmed. Johnson Economics' economic-impact analysis (Morrow County Planning Commission, Jan 2025) models the full 1 GW campus at roughly $8 billion investment (potential range $7-12 billion), about 6,400 construction FTE over an eight-year build (~800/year) and about 560 operations FTE, assuming an Oregon Strategic Investment Program (SIP) property-tax abatement — modeled projections for a still-proposed campus, not firm commitments.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Amazon purchased 1,300 acres from Threemile Canyon Farms dairy for $37M near Boardman. Planning documents indicate 20 buildings, 4 million sq ft, 1 GW capacity. Amazon stated development plans not final.
Sources and attribution
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- Amazon Purchases 1,300 Acres in Morrow County, Oregon · Data Center Dynamics
- Oregon Communities Envision 9,100 Acres for New Data Centers · Lincoln Chronicle / The Oregonian
- How Amazon data centers use water for cooling · Amazon
- Johnson Economics — Economic Impact Analysis of Prospective Exascale Data Center Development in Morrow County (Jan 2025) · Morrow County Planning Commission
- Tri-Cities Business News
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID aws-boardman-morrow-county-or. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000127
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Boardman, OR · Morrow (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Amazon Web Services
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: March 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 1,300 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: PacifiCorp (Pacific Power)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Hydro
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Hybrid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 560 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-12
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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