OpenAI CEO
Sam Altman said Musk is selling 'short term' space data centers to investors.
Apple Prineville Campus
Apple operates a large data center campus in Prineville, Oregon, benefiting from Long Term Rural Enterprise Zone tax exemptions that are nearing expiration. It is reported, as reported May 30, 2024.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
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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
- Reported by others: 30 to 40 MW (Data Center Knowledge). Their figure, not the record's.
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Apple
- 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 |
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| 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 | Apple | as stated by the source | October 4, 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 |
How much power it needs, also reported: 30 to 40 MW, 2024 (Data Center Knowledge: Apple Prineville campus could require 30 to 40 megawatts of power to support its campus at full capacity) .
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 was decided
Acts of Crook County and Prineville about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prineville | Prineville officials were in discussion with two additional companies about building data centers in the town where Facebook opened its first company built data center | datacenterknowledge.com |
What happened
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Milestone Technologies will lay off 66 non union workers on June 28, 2026 [6]
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Facebook data center first phase was 150,000 square feet and opened in April [5]
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Apple has already begun work on a 10,000 square foot facility featuring modular data centers [4]
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Apple submitted a master plan for its 160 acre property in Prineville with plans to build two large data center buildings spanning more than 500,000 square feet of data halls [4]
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Apple acquired the 45 Mile Hydroelectric Plant, which had been under development by EBD Hydro and was transferred to Apple in December [3]
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The required electrical capacity would not be available until mid-2013 when a nearby substation could be upgraded [2]
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· Status: rumored (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Apple is considering building a new data center adjacent to Facebook's facility in Prineville, Oregon, using codename Maverick [2]
The full Apple Prineville Campus timeline, in order
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Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
What was said
Altman previously publicly pointed out that the space data center initiative is not realistic.
Layoffs due to end of contract with client at Prineville location
Every statement about data centers in Oregon, by speaker
8 more statements on this page
Meta spokesperson
Meta plans to rehire the majority of staff through a different firm as part of vendor partnership change
Jason Beebe, Mayor
Prineville is home to both Facebook and Apple data centers with 15 year tax exemptions beginning to expire
Casey Kaiser, assistant city manager
Meta and Apple funded nearly the entire aquifer system
Casey Kaiser, assistant city manager
Data centers pay same water rates and system development charges as any other industrial developer
Jason Beebe, Mayor
Regulations will likely aim to protect energy infrastructure and water supplies from being overburdened
Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, stated that since Oregon has no sales tax, it is property taxes that are the big dollars attracting data centers
Apple has committed to supporting 100 percent of its energy use in Prineville with renewable resources
The site
The pin is the site, as the EPA's facility record places it. Location from an EPA water permit.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- 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
- 1600 SW Baldwin Drive, Prineville, OR 97754, Prineville, Crook County, Oregon [source]
- How exactly it is located
- Exact, the point of the EPA's facility record
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Oakline at Mill Creek, 111 mi
Comparisons
1 metric with more than one figure
Capacity at full buildout
1 figure, 1 sourceNot disclosedNot disclosed
30 to 40 MWReported
Show each source's words
- 30 to 40 MW, Data Center Knowledge: Apple Prineville campus could require 30 to 40 megawatts of power to support its campus at full capacity
Questions about this project
7 questions answered from the record
How big is Apple Prineville Campus?
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Not disclosed. No source on file gives its capacity, its acreage or a count of buildings. What the record holds instead is under Disclosed.
Who is building Apple Prineville Campus?
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Apple is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
Who will use Apple Prineville Campus?
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Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.
How much power and water does Apple Prineville Campus 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 Apple Prineville Campus stand today?
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It is reported, as reported May 30, 2024. The newest entry, reported April 30, 2026: Milestone Technologies will lay off 66 non union workers on June 28, 2026 [6].
What has Prineville or Crook County decided about it?
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Prineville: Prineville officials were in discussion with two additional companies about building data centers in the town where Facebook opened its first company built data center (reported May 31, 2024, source). 1 event is on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
What is still unknown about Apple Prineville Campus?
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Not disclosed by any source on file: how much power it needs, how much water it would use, how loud it would be, jobs once it runs, tax it would pay each year, who is constructing it, how much land, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.
Sources
Primary documents
- EPA ECHO detailed facility report: Apple Data Center, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Reporting
- Report: Apple May Build Near Facebook in Oregon, Data Center Knowledge, May 30, 2024, trade press
- Apple Buys Hydro Power Facility Near Prineville Data Center, Data Center Knowledge, May 31, 2024, trade press
- Apple Expansion Boosts Prineville Data Center Ecosystem, Data Center Knowledge, May 31, 2024, trade press
- Facebook May Get New Neighbors in Prineville, Data Center Knowledge, May 31, 2024, trade press
- Prineville data center with connection to Meta will lay off 66 - Oregon Public Broadcasting, OPB, April 30, 2026, local outlet
- Data centers drain Crook County’s school tax base, bendbulletin.com, August 21, 2025, local outlet
- Prineville Wants More Out of Its Next Data Center Deal - The Source - Bend, Oregon, Bend, Oregon, June 30, 2026, local outlet
- 66 workers to lose jobs at Prineville data center tied to Meta, Central Oregon Daily, May 1, 2026, local outlet
- Meta Layoffs in Prineville, KBND, May 1, 2026, local outlet
10 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Apple Prineville Campus", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/apple-prineville-campus-or, last verified October 4, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Apple Prineville Campus", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/apple-prineville-campus-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
- apple-prineville-campus-or
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/or/crook-county/prineville
- Coordinates
- 44.289, -120.87685
- Location precision
- permit_point
- Location source
- https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110071898474
- Coordinate source
- https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110071898474
- Location source number
- [1]
- Location last verified
- October 4, 2026
- EPA registry id
- 110071898474
- 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
- 2026-10-04