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Google The Dalles Data Center, 3500 River Road (Port of The Dalles)
The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon · All 53 Google sites · Every Google case on our tracker
Google The Dalles Data Center, 3500 River Road (Port of The Dalles) is a data center under construction in The Dalles, Oregon (Wasco County), operated by Google. The public record puts it at a reported $600 million investment.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- The Dalles, Wasco County, OR
- Coordinates
- 45.6254, -121.2024 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- $600 million
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Enterprise zone property tax abatement (long-term rural enterprise zone) plus one-time community payment
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google The Dalles Data Center, 3500 River Road (Port of The Dalles) in The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise zone property tax abatement (long-term rural enterprise zone) plus one-time community payment | Not established | Not established |
Notes on the record
Public-reception check (2026-09-10): Checked the Construction Dive article (2026-09-10) about this $600M, 290,000 sq ft facility (Whiting-Turner as general contractor); it covers only project economics and site-selection rationale ('energy infrastructure, developable land and available workforce'). No community reaction, hearing, or official statement documented in this source -- despite The Dalles being a site with an extensively documented history of Google water-use controversy in past years, none of that appears in this particular article, so it is not reflected here.
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.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Our reporting on this site
- The Dalles v. The Oregonian · Settled
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.
- Google The Dalles Data Center Campus · The Dalles · Google2 mi · Operating · 300 MW · Contested
- STACK Infrastructure Goldendale Data Center · Goldendale · STACK Infrastructure23 mi · Proposed · 958 MW · Opposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Google The Dalles Data Center, 3500 River Road (Port of The Dalles) in The Dalles?
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google The Dalles Data Center, 3500 River Road (Port of The Dalles) in The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Google The Dalles Data Center, 3500 River Road (Port of The Dalles)?
No lawsuit over Google The Dalles Data Center, 3500 River Road (Port of The Dalles) appears in the record we track as of September 10, 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 Google The Dalles Data Center, 3500 River Road (Port of The Dalles) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Google The Dalles Data Center, 3500 River Road (Port of The Dalles) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Google The Dalles Data Center, 3500 River Road (Port of The Dalles), and how big is it?
Google is the operator on record. We hold 53 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Google The Dalles Data Center, 3500 River Road (Port of The Dalles)," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/google-the-dalles-port-river-road-or.
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/google-the-dalles-port-river-road-or, 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.Google taps Whiting-Turner to build $600M Oregon data center, 'Design LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of tech giant Google, selected Baltimore-based Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. to build a $600 million data center in Wasco County, Oregon'; 290,000 square feet; contractor cleared to start construction per The Dalles Community Development Department filings dated Jan. 30, 2024 · Construction Dive · retrieved August 14, 2026
- 2.Google makes move to break ground on new data center in The Dalles, site is 3500 River Road at the Port of The Dalles, a former aluminum smelter site; 290,000 sq ft; up to $600 million; described as 'the fourth such data center for Google in The Dalles' · Columbia Community Connection · retrieved August 14, 2026
- 3.As Google's water demands grow, The Dalles aims to pull more from Mount Hood forest, 'By 2024, a third of The Dalles' water went to Google's three local data center sites'; Google 'just built a data center building in 2025, and plans to complete another one this year'; Google employs about 200 people in The Dalles · Oregon Public Broadcasting · retrieved August 14, 2026
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