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Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus

Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Amazon in Oregon, Boardman. 1 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Partially energized · Amazon · greenfield · WECC · Boardman, Oregon, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 1 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

34th-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses69th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 810,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)
Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus capacity claims
Source
Announced1 GW2026-03-30reportedjournalist report

Key facts

partially energized

Lifecycle

1 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Amazon

Developer

United States

Location

WECC

Grid

greenfield

Land

1 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

On the data center map

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Approximate pin. We hold a city-level coordinate for this campus, not a verified site coordinate, so the marker shows the city rather than the parcel. The satellite strip and building outlines stay off until the site coordinate is sourced.

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The story of Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus
Announced capex
$30B
Jobs
7,400 permanent reported
Derived
Cost per MW
$30M/MW
Cost per job
$4M per permanent job

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterOregon(85)

The deal

utility
PacifiCorp (Pacific Power) · Local retail utility
utility
Bonneville Power Administration · Regional balancing authority (WECC)
operator
Amazon

Power

Power source
mixed
Grid operator
WECC
Interconnection

Bloom Energy fuel cells (Morrow County AWS site), 0.02 GW gas, Announced. Reported ~24 MW behind-the-meter fuel cells supplementing a site with ~40 MW grid available.

County water status: Extreme drought (D3) in Morrow County, week of 2026-09-08 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus sits on greenfield in Oregon, Boardman. It connects to the WECC grid, draws on mixed power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States
FAA Proposed Rule: Enabling Supersonic Overland Flight (July 2026)operational restriction · 2026-07-02 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

Capex
$30B source
Permanent jobs
7,400 source

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    utility: Bonneville Power Administration
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Partially energized

Sources

11de3cbb-092d-403c-86fb-37f506ab6361 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus vs Amazon (AWS) Hermiston / Umatilla Data Center Campus →Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus vs Amazon Project Rainier Data Center →Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus vs Black Pearl →Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus vs Amazon 'Bridgefield' GWU Ashburn Campus →Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus vs Cipher Stingray Data Center →

Common questions

What is Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus?
Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Boardman. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus use?
Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus has 1 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus?
Amazon is recorded as a party to Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus is partially energized. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Amazon (AWS) Boardman Data Center Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/amazon-boardman-morrow-county

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