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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Oakline at Mill Creek.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Verrus
- Address and locality
- Salem · Marion County · Oregon
- Official metro area
- Salem, OR
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 12 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001548
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.
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 75 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $5.1 billion
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
Provider notes
Energy. Design includes battery energy storage, a utility substation, and technology to reduce electricity demand during peak grid stress; no electricity-use estimates released.
Water. Closed-loop cooling system intended to reduce water use; no water-use estimates released.
Community. Proposal drew both support and opposition. Construction unions backed it for job creation (Eric Morgan, North Coast States Carpenters Union). Residents raised concerns about water use, electricity demand, noise and environmental impact, and called for a proper public process. On July 30, 2026 Governor Tina Kotek directed the Department of Administrative Services to terminate the state's contract to sell approximately 32 acres at the Mill Creek Corporate Center for the project, saying 'Growth has to make sense for the community, for our infrastructure, and for our natural resources.' Verrus, …
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- Cooling: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
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
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
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- Governor Kotek Directs State to Withdraw Land for Proposed Salem Data Center Site (July 30, 2026) — directs the Department of Administrative Services to terminate the state's contract for the sale of approximately 32 acres at the Mill Creek Corporate Center in southeast Salem · Office of the Governor, State of Oregon
- Massive $5.1B data center proposed for Salem draws praise and pushback — developer Verrus; project 'Oakline at Mill Creek'; $5.1 billion; 75 acres at Mill Creek Corporate Center near Turner Road SE and Deer Park Drive SE; 75 permanent jobs; ~$9M/yr to Salem's general fund and ~$1.5M to the Community Livability Levy; power and water figures not yet disclosed by the company · KATU
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID verrus-oakline-mill-creek-salem-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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001548
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.
Location and precision
- Salem, OR · Marion (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Verrus
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.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 75 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $5.1 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers 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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