Courtney Lee, senior manager for state and local policy, Amazon Web Services
Amazon representative said company runs diesel generators about 12 hours per year for testing and maintenance
Amazon Eastern Oregon Data Centers
Amazon operates data centers in Morrow County, Oregon that went online beginning in 2011 and have been linked to nitrate groundwater contamination and a cluster of rare health conditions in the surrounding community. It is reported, since March 31, 2026.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Amazon
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Amazon | as stated by the source | September 17, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What happened
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Amazon data center project is proceeding in the Boardman area with Oregon Department of Environmental Quality opening public comment period for air quality permit [4]
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· In court (content date)
Settlement motion filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Pendleton Division [1]
The full Amazon Eastern Oregon Data Centers timeline, in order
7 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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· the capacity mw of a projects row
The capacity carried no source url. It came from the state batch extraction of 2026-09-04, which read two entries that are still draft and never approved ("would require a gigawatt of electricity", "consuming up to 1 gigawatt of power"); no published source on the record states it, so the field reads Not disclosed until one does (the editor's word of 2026-10-06). The old and new text.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the effective at of a status history row
Dated from its source: hbsslaw.com (its own cited source) answers 403 and could not be read directly; independent reporting on the same settlement (oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/03/31/..., KOIN, The Food and Environment Reporting Network) agrees the motion was filed March 31, 2026. The old and new text.
Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
What was said
Jim Doherty, former Morrow County Commissioner, said opposition to data centers is a unifying moment between rural and urban Oregon
Amazon representative said Amazon data center uses less water than local agriculture industry
Every statement about data centers in Oregon, by speaker
2 more statements on this page
Chair, Morrow County Board of Commissioners
David Sykes, chair of the Morrow County Board of Commissioners, said decisions over data centers on private property are up to local government
The site
Where in Morrow County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 13 other published records in Oregon
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Boardman, Morrow County, Oregon
- How exactly it is located
- County level, the county seat
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Amazon Eastern Oregon Data Centers?
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Amazon is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Amazon Eastern Oregon Data Centers say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Amazon Eastern Oregon Data Centers stand today?
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It is reported, since March 31, 2026. The newest entry, reported September 10, 2026: Amazon data center project is proceeding in the Boardman area with Oregon Department of Environmental Quality opening public comment period for air quality permit [4].
What has Boardman or Morrow County decided about it?
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No decision by Boardman or Morrow County about data centers is on the record. The Morrow County page and the Oregon scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Primary documents
- Group 7: Amazon Data Services Boardman campus, Boardman, Morrow County, OR: hbsslaw.com, hbsslaw.com
Reporting
- Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers - Futurism, Futurism, November 29, 2025, local outlet
- ‘The Precedent Is Flint’: How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis - Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, November 24, 2025, local outlet
- Kotek’s push against data centers unlikely to slow expansion in Eastern Oregon, local officials say, OPB, September 10, 2026, local outlet
- Petition seeks pause on eastern Oregon data centers - Nonstop Local News, Nonstop Local News, July 29, 2026, local outlet
- As new data centers are headed to Eastern Oregon, opponents share their concerns - Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB, OPB, August 20, 2026, local outlet
- Report: Amazon buys 1,300 acres near Columbia River that could become a giant data center - GeekWire, GeekWire, March 30, 2026, local outlet
7 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Amazon Eastern Oregon Data Centers", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/amazon-eastern-oregon-data-centers-morrow-or, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Amazon Eastern Oregon Data Centers", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/amazon-eastern-oregon-data-centers-morrow-or. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- amazon-eastern-oregon-data-centers-morrow-or
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/or/morrow-county/boardman
- Coordinates
- 45.35611, -119.55278
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Heppner), Wikidata, placed at county level
- Coordinate source
- wikidata county seat
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 16, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17