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Meta Prineville Data Center Campus
Prineville, Crook County, Oregon · All 28 Meta sites · Every Meta case on our tracker
Meta Prineville Data Center Campus is an operating data center in Prineville, Oregon (Crook County), operated by Meta. The public record puts it at announced 2010, 400 MW operating, 240 acres, a reported $2 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Meta
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use mixed
- Location
- Prineville, Crook County, OR
- Coordinates
- 44.3042, -120.8515
- Power capacity
- 400 MW operating
- Land
- 240 acres
- Investment
- $2 billion
- Announced
- 2010
- Utility
- Pacific Power (PacifiCorp)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Hybrid
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 350 permanent; 1,000 construction
- Public subsidy
- Oregon Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone, 15-year property-tax abatement across multiple building phases since 2012 (per-company cumulative total not publicly disclosed), Crook County / Prineville, OR, 2012
- 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.
- 2011OperatingMeta's first company-owned data center; campus expanded with multiple buildings through 2023 Source: Wikipedia
- 2010Under constructionStatus change recorded. Source: Wikipedia
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Meta Prineville Data Center Campus in Prineville, Crook County, Oregon appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Broadly supportive, credited with reversing post-recession unemployment; city franchise fees from data-center power grew from ~$430K (2011) to ~$11M/year (2024).
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.
Broadly supportive, credited with reversing post-recession unemployment; city franchise fees from data-center power grew from ~$430K (2011) to ~$11M/year (2024). But Crook County schools forgo tens of millions per year in abated taxes, biologists have flagged aquifer-drawdown concerns, and in 2026 Oregon moved to pause data-center enterprise-zone exemptions for new applicants. A June 2026 contractor change cut 66 logistics jobs (Meta said most would be rehired).
Power and water
100% renewable match via PPAs and RECs; Meta contracted 437 MW of new Oregon solar, including about 100 MW in the Prineville area. 2023 average PUE 1.08; no on-site generation.
Outdoor-air economizer cooling with evaporative assist on peak days. Annual withdrawal was ~68.4M gallons (2022), down from a ~117.5M-gallon peak (2020); use concentrates on roughly 10 hot summer days (about 10% of city consumption on those days). Meta co-funded a second aquifer storage-and-recovery injection well.
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone, 15-year property-tax abatement across multiple building phases since 2012 (per-company cumulative total not publicly disclosed) | Not established | Crook County / Prineville, OR | 2012 |
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.
- Apple Prineville Data Center Campus · Prineville · Appleunder 1 mile · Operating
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Meta Prineville Data Center Campus in Prineville?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Meta Prineville Data Center Campus in Prineville, Crook County, Oregon appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Broadly supportive, credited with reversing post-recession unemployment; city franchise fees from data-center power grew from ~$430K (2011) to ~$11M/year (2024).
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Meta Prineville Data Center Campus?
No lawsuit over Meta Prineville Data Center 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 Meta Prineville Data Center Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Meta Prineville Data Center 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 Meta Prineville Data Center Campus, and how big is it?
Meta is the operator on record. We hold 28 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 400 MW. The site is recorded at 240 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Meta Prineville Data Center Campus," updated September 5, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/meta-prineville-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/meta-prineville-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.Meta Platforms data centers, Wikipedia · Wikipedia · retrieved July 5, 2026
- 2.Meta 2023 Sustainability Report · Meta · retrieved July 5, 2026
- 3.Meta's Prineville Data Center (fact sheet) · Meta · retrieved July 6, 2026 · original offline, archived copy from June 16, 2026
- 4.Prineville doubles down on water conservation with tech giant-backed project, The Bulletin · The Bulletin (Bend, OR) · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 5.Prineville Wants More Out of Its Next Data Center Deal, The Source Weekly · The Source Weekly (Bend, OR) · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 6.Facebook Unveils Major Data Center Campus Expansion in Prineville, Data Center Frontier · Data Center Frontier · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 7.Meta's Prineville Data Center (site info sheet) · Meta · retrieved August 14, 2026 · original offline, archived copy from June 16, 2026
- 8.Meta's Prineville Data Center info sheet (current URL for the Prineville fact sheet) · Meta · retrieved September 5, 2026
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