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AWS Wallula Gap Campus

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ProposedMixed receptionAI confirmedRecord updated September 5, 2026

AWS Wallula Gap Campus is a proposed data center in Wallula, Washington (Walla Walla County), operated by Amazon Web Services. The public record puts it at announced October 2024, 300 MW planned, 500 acres, a reported $4.8 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator
Amazon Web Services
Facility type
Data center, AI use confirmed
Location
Sundance Road, Wallula Gap Business Park, Wallula, Walla Walla County, WA
Coordinates
46.0726, -118.9135
Power capacity
300 MW planned
Land
500 acres
Investment
$4.8 billion
Announced
October 2024
Utility
Columbia Rural Electric Assn, Inc
Power source
Grid
Cooling
Hybrid
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
Not established from a public source
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
Community reception
Mixed reception
Source confidence
Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

  1. September 5, 2026
    Proposed
    Walla Walla County's own project page and local reporting show the campus is still in permitting, not construction. The county held a pre-application meeting on April 29, 2026, issued a Notice of Incomplete Application on June 23, 2026, and issued a Notice of Complete Application on August 24, 2026 (files SDP26-01 and SEPA26-05). As of September 1, 2026 no final land-use decision has been made and construction has not been initiated. The record's current 'under_construction' status is not supported by these sources. Source: Walla Walla County Community Development Department
  2. 2026
    Under construction
    A ~$4.8B, ~300 MW data center in Walla Walla County (Wallula), widely reported to be AWS Source: Data Center Dynamics

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to AWS Wallula Gap Campus in Wallula, Walla Walla County, Washington appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Port of Walla Walla commissioners approved the amended land sale unanimously (Feb 12, 2026), calling the project transformative; documented concerns from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (sacred Snake/Columbia confluence), environmental and academic voices, and a commissioner over water and power.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.

Port of Walla Walla commissioners approved the amended land sale unanimously (Feb 12, 2026), calling the project transformative; documented concerns from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (sacred Snake/Columbia confluence), environmental and academic voices, and a commissioner over water and power. No litigation or moratorium; a SEPA environmental review with tribal and public comment is still pending.

Source: Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business

Power and water

In Pacific Power (PacifiCorp) service territory (utility inferred from territory, not company-confirmed); regional supply is hydro-dominant.

Amazon's Aug 2026 community materials state the cooling system will use outside air ~93% of the year, with water-based cooling supplementing during the hottest ~7%.

Notes on the record

~$4.8B, ~300 MW campus near Wallula, Walla Walla County; operator reported (not officially confirmed) to be AWS → confidence reported. Coordinates are the Wallula area centroid. Operator confirmed as Amazon Data Services when the Port of Walla Walla amended the buyer from Advance Phase LLC to Amazon Data Services (Feb 12, 2026 commission vote; >550 acres for >$36M land), confidence upgraded to confirmed. The reported ~$4.8B (DCD) / ~$5B (local) campus figure is an estimate across ~4 phases, not a firm pledge -> investmentUsd omitted. Port projects ~720 direct+indirect jobs at full build-out (projection) -> jobs honest-zero. Eligible for Washington's rural-county server-equipment sales/use-tax exemption (RCW 82.08.986) but no DOR certificate is confirmed -> subsidy honest-zero. Water source and cooling type are undisclosed pending SEPA (no water rights were conveyed in the land deal).

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
Which document closes each gap
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised
The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the AWS Wallula Gap Campus in Wallula?

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to AWS Wallula Gap Campus in Wallula, Walla Walla County, Washington appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Port of Walla Walla commissioners approved the amended land sale unanimously (Feb 12, 2026), calling the project transformative; documented concerns from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (sacred Snake/Columbia confluence), environmental and academic voices, and a commissioner over water and power.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the AWS Wallula Gap Campus?

No lawsuit over AWS Wallula Gap Campus appears in the record we track as of September 5, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does AWS Wallula Gap Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for AWS Wallula Gap Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as hybrid, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates AWS Wallula Gap Campus, and how big is it?

Amazon Web Services is the operator on record. We hold 54 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 300 MW. The site is recorded at 500 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "AWS Wallula Gap Campus," updated September 5, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/aws-wallula-gap-walla-walla-wa.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/aws-wallula-gap-walla-walla-wa, retrieved September 14, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

  1. 1.AWS likely behind $4.8bn data center in Walla Walla, Washington · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 7, 2026
  2. 2.Port of Walla Walla names Amazon Data Services as Wallula Gap buyer · Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business · retrieved July 8, 2026
  3. 3.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
  4. 4.Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business, 'Transformative' $5 billion data center campus planned for Wallula · retrieved July 25, 2026
  5. 5.Amazon to hold Burbank open house on Walla Walla County data center plan · NBC Right Now · retrieved August 22, 2026
  6. 6.Amazon's proposed data center application deemed complete by Walla Walla County · Elkhorn Media Group · retrieved September 5, 2026
  7. 7.Amazon Data Center FAQs, application milestones (SDP26-01 / SEPA26-05) · Walla Walla County Community Development Department · retrieved September 5, 2026
  8. 8.Amazon's proposed data center application deemed complete by Walla Walla County · Elkhorn Media Group · retrieved September 5, 2026

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