Data center campus
Google The Dalles Data Center Campus
Google The Dalles Data Center Campus is a tracked AI data center campus in Oregon, The Dalles. Google's ~$1.8B campus on a former aluminum smelter site has multiple operational data centers under Enterprise Zone agreements (2005/2013/2015) plus newer buildings under a 2021 Strategic Investment Program agreement wi
Partially energized · Google · Former industrial site · WECC · The Dalles, Oregon, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
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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.
Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.
Per-building manifest tied to the site polygons and imagery. When we know a building's outline we render it; when we know only its year and capacity we still surface those as first-class rows so the campus total is auditable, not a headline claim. Sorted largest-first; top 6 shown by default of 12.
Manifest totals: 1,744,311 sqft. Rolled from the per-building rows above.
Key facts
Lifecycle
Energized
Developer
Location
Grid
Facilities tracked
On the data center map
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- Announced capex
- $1.8B
- Jobs
- 200 permanent reported
- Water
- 1.2M gal/day (5K households)
- Land owner
- Northwest Aluminum
- Cost per job
- $9M 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
- 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.
Power
- 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.
County water status: Severe drought (D2) in Wasco County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.
Silicon on site
Every AI chip publicly attributed to Google The Dalles Data Center Campus on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.
- as of 2024-01-01
TPU v4 pods (major Google Cloud TPU region)
reported - as of 2024-01-01
TPU v5p available in us-east5 (Columbus) + us-central1 (Iowa) + us-central2 (Oklahoma) — The Dalles hosts related pods
reported
Why here
Google The Dalles Data Center Campus sits on former industrial site in Oregon, The Dalles. It connects to the WECC grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.
Financial structure
- 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
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.
Investment, workforce and specs
Facilities at this campus
Timeline
- Aug 2026party addedland_owner: Northwest Aluminum
- Sep 2026Current: Partially energized
Sources
- Enterprise Zone & Strategic Investment Program Agreements with Google
- Google advances plan to expand sprawling data center campus near Portland, Oregon
963decea-f424-4814-a8de-94389e75476a · 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
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Cite this page
DEPLOY. (2026). Google The Dalles Data Center Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/google-the-dalles-wasco-county
More citation formats (MLA, Chicago, BibTeX) →The verified data on this page is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license: reuse the facts freely, with attribution to DEPLOY (deploy.report). The prose, design, and any imagery are not included and keep their own rights.
Machine-readable surfaces
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- REST API: /v1/datacenters/google-the-dalles-wasco-county
- Data documentation: /data
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