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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Google The Dalles Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- The Dalles · Wasco County · Oregon
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 12 October 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000749
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
- Northern Wasco County PUD
- Power source
- Hydro
- Cooling
- Evaporative
- Reported water use
- 1.51 million gallons per day (source-reported)
- Announced investment
- $1.8 billion
- Announced jobs
- 200 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- 2005
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Oregon Enterprise Zone (Wasco County) — 2005, 2013, and 2015 15-year property-tax abatement agreements; the city projects ~$45.78M in community payments over the 2013 and 2015 terms · The Dalles / Wasco County, OR · 2005/2013/2015 Open cited source →
- Oregon Strategic Investment Program (SIP) — 2021 agreement, 15-year abatement (payment amounts pending final valuation) · The Dalles / Wasco County, OR · 2021 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Powered largely by Bonneville Power Administration Columbia River hydropower via Northern Wasco County PUD, supplemented by a 100+ MW wind PPA (Avangrid/Leaning Juniper IIB). Google claims a 100% renewable match.
Water. City records released after a 2021–22 public-records lawsuit — which the city, funded by Google (>$100K), later dropped — show Google consumed 355.1M gallons in 2021 (~29% of The Dalles' total water use), up from 104.3M gallons in 2012. Google committed $28.5M to upgrade city water infrastructure.
Community. The city sued The Oregonian/OregonLive (with Google funding >$100K) to block release of Google's water data, then settled in December 2022 and released a decade of records. Concerns span water (Yakama Nation fishers and Dog River endangered-fish habitat), school funding, and abatement scale; Oregon enacted a 2025–26 pause on new data-center incentives.
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
The prior provider edition dated construction to 2005 and operation to 2006. This capture replaces both years with 2026-10-13 without establishing new event dates. The conflicting dates are withheld; no new construction or opening event is established.
- Date withheld after review · source-reported under construction
- Date withheld after review · source-reported operational
One of Google's earliest major data center campuses; expanded multiple times through 2023
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- The Dalles, Oregon — Google data centers (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia
- We now know how much water Google's Oregon data centers use — Data Center Dynamics · Data Center Dynamics
- Enterprise Zone & Strategic Investment Program Agreements with Google — City of The Dalles · City of The Dalles, OR
- Google touts $1.8 billion investment in The Dalles data center — Mail Tribune · Mail Tribune
- Northern Wasco PUD to Supply Power to Google Data Centers — American Public Power Association · American Public Power Association
- How Google is Reshaping a Small Oregon Town — Technostatecraft · Technostatecraft
- As Google's water demands grow, The Dalles aims to pull more from Mount Hood forest · Oregon Public Broadcasting
- Data center water use can be a 'black box.' Google aims to change that · Latitude Media
- Google's water use is soaring in The Dalles, records show · WaterWatch of Oregon
- The Dalles, Oregon — Google Data Center Location (Google's own site page) · Google
- Google Confirms $600 Million Expansion in The Dalles — Data Center Knowledge (2013-09-26) · Data Center Knowledge
- Google touts $1.8 billion investment in Oregon data center · NBC16 / The Oregonian
- Avangrid to repower Leaning Juniper IIB wind project to supply 100 MW to Google data centers in The Dalles · Construction Review Online
- Avangrid Signs Agreement With Google To Power Data Centers · Gorge Radio
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-the-dalles-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
What this page records, grouped by topic, with the source's units and qualifications. Company-reported values stay labeled as company-reported. Related listings are shown separately.
Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000749
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): mixed use
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- The Dalles, OR · Wasco (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: Google
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2005
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: Date withheld after review · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: Date withheld after review · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Operational: 300 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: Northern Wasco County PUD
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Hydro
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Evaporative
Provider label.
- Reported water use: 1.51 million gallons per day (source-reported)
Whether this is metered use, a permit limit or a request is not established; see the provider water note.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $1.8 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 200 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: Oregon Enterprise Zone (Wasco County) — 2005, 2013, and 2015 15-year property-tax abatement agreements; the city projects ~$45.78M in community payments over the 2013 and 2015 terms · The Dalles / Wasco County, OR · 2005/2013/2015
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: Oregon Strategic Investment Program (SIP) — 2021 agreement, 15-year abatement (payment amounts pending final valuation) · The Dalles / Wasco County, OR · 2021
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-12
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · 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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