Google The Dalles Data Center Expansion (2nd/3rd buildings)

The deal

Inherited from campus Google The Dalles Data Center Campus.

utility

Northern Wasco County PUD · Local public utility district

offtaker

Avangrid · Wind PPA supplier

operator

Google · SIP/EZ agreements administered by Business Oregon

construction

Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. · General contractor for the ~$600M / two ~290,000 sq ft new-build expansion (broke ground Sept 2024).

land owner

Northwest Aluminum · Prior owner of the former smelter site; sold land to Google.

Financial structure

Inherited from campus Google The Dalles Data Center Campus.

Cumulative Oregon investment since 2006

$1.8B. ~18-year cumulative figure touted by Google. journalist report ↗

Enterprise Zone abatements (2013 + 2015 agreements)

15-year abatements expiring ~2031/32 and ~2034/35; combined projected community payments ~$45.78M; effective property-tax discount reported ~92%. permit filing ↗

2021 Strategic Investment Program agreement (Design LLC)

Up to 2 data centers, 15-year abatement; Google pays 50% of assessed property tax on first project, 60% on second; $3M upfront per new development; plus Community Service Fee and Guaranteed Annual Payment. permit filing ↗

Investment, workforce and specs

Inherited from campus Google The Dalles Data Center Campus.

Permanent jobs

>200 permanent jobs at site source ↗

Water (gal/day)

~1.19M gpd (434.4M gal in 2024) source ↗

Power

Inherited from campus Google The Dalles Data Center Campus. Live grid demand and drought overlay only render on the campus page.

Power source

grid

Grid operator

WECC

Interconnection

Water

2024 use ~434.4M gal/yr (~1.19M gpd), up from 104M gal/yr in 2012; underground water right up to 3.88M gpd acquired with smelter; city commitment up to 2M gpd by Jan 2028, potential 8M gpd with expansion. Retail water via City of The Dalles; subject of a 2022-2023 public-records dispute (The Oregonian).

Leaning Juniper IIB repower (Avangrid, Gilliam County), 0.10 GW wind, Announced. Google PPA for 100+ MW clean energy to serve The Dalles campus.

Leaning Juniper IIB (Avangrid) repowered wind farm, 0.12 GW wind, Energized. 119 MW repowered wind farm in Gilliam County; >100 MW PPA to Google delivered via Northern Wasco County PUD; repower cost up to ~$200M, ~150 construction jobs.

Facility record

On the data center map

• Data centers in Oregon →
• The national data center map →
• Data centers on the global map →

Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

• 2021-06Enterprise Zone abatements (2013 + 2015 agreements)
• 2021-062021 Strategic Investment Program agreement (Design LLC)

• 2024-06Cumulative Oregon investment since 2006 · $1.8B

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones inherited from campus Google The Dalles Data Center Campus. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Evidence

Each fact traces to a source. This is what a verified record looks like next to an unsourced directory listing.

• buildingSqft: 290000 (reported) · source
• record: Google The Dalles Data Center Expansion (2nd/3rd buildings) (reported) · source
• status: under_construction (reported) · source
• streetAddress: 3500 River Road, The Dalles, OR (reported) · source · second/expansion building at same 3500 River Rd site

Timeline

1. Aug 2026
   First recorded
   Added to the DEPLOY registry as a sourced facility record
2. Sep 2026
   Current: under construction