Salem city officials
Town hall focused on hearing input on data center water usage, noise, job creation and electricity consumption
Oakline at Mill Creek
Verrus proposes a data center campus of three buildings and a substation on about 75 acres at the Mill Creek Corporate Center in southeast Salem, with a land use application filed on 2026-07-31 and a city moratorium initiated on 2026-08-03. It is waiting on permits, since July 31, 2026.
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
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Verrus
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
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- 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 |
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| Who is building it | Verrus | as stated by the source | September 22, 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 |
Jobs once it runs, also reported: 75 jobs, 2026 (Salem Reporter: Proposed Salem data center (Verrus project) expected to employ 75 people, according to public comment discussion) .
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 Marion County and Salem 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 |
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| Salem | Salem city council voted to accept 120 day moratorium on all new data center projects with option to extend by additional six months before year end | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Salem City Council voted unanimously to pursue a moratorium in early August 2026. | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Salem City Council will vote on a 120 day moratorium on data centers using more than 2 megawatts of power on September 21, 2026. | salemreporter.com | |
| Woodburn | Woodburn City Council approved a 120 day moratorium on new data center development | kval.com | |
| Salem | Next town hall meetings scheduled for October 6 and October 20 | kptv.com | |
| Salem | Salem held first of three town halls to gather community input on data centers, with city council to consider formal proposal in December 2026 | kptv.com |
30 earlier decisions on the county's rows
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
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| Salem | The task force will present recommendations to city council in December 2026 after two more town halls in October. | salemreporter.com | |
| Woodburn | The moratorium halts the acceptance, review, and approval of city permits and development proposals for new data storage, processing, and information technology facilities | kptv.com | |
| Woodburn | The Woodburn City Council approved a 120 day freeze on new data center projects | kptv.com | |
| Woodburn | There are no currently active or pending data center applications in Woodburn | koin.com | |
| Woodburn | The 120 day period will allow city officials to review zoning and development regulations, evaluate public utility and infrastructure needs, reassess data center siting criteria, review environmental impacts including water, energy, and noise, and develop regulations for future data center proposals | koin.com | |
| Woodburn | The moratorium temporarily pauses approval, review, and acceptance of development proposals and permits for new data centers including data storage, processing, and information technology centers | koin.com | |
| Woodburn | Woodburn City Council declared a 120 day moratorium to halt new data center development | koin.com | |
| Woodburn | Woodburn City Council unanimously approved 120 day moratorium on data center development on September 15, 2026 | opb.org | |
| Salem | Salem city councilors voted 8-1 on a motion to consider new regulations around the city's use of non disclosure agreements related to data center developments | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Salem's Data Center Task Force held a town hall on September 15, 2026, at Broadway Commons to gather community input on data center policy. | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Task force was formed in response to community outcry over a $5.1 billion data center project proposed in Salem | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Salem Data Center Task Force holds first of three town halls to address data center policies at Broadway Commons | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Salem city council considers expanding policy ban on non disclosure agreements for data center projects | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Salem city council to receive updates on data center moratorium on Sept. 14 | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Salem Data Center Task Force is crafting a policy proposal for city council approval | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Salem city scheduled third town hall on data center policies on October 20 | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Salem city scheduled second town hall on data center policies on October 6 | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Salem city scheduled first town hall on data center policies on September 15 at 5-7 p.m. | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Governor Kotek halted the planned sale of approximately 32 acres of state land at Mill Creek Corporate Center in Salem for a proposed data center project | applevalleynewsnow.com | |
| Salem | A Salem City Council special meeting considered a temporary citywide data center moratorium. | democratherald.com | |
| Salem | Kotek intervened to stop a data center proposed on state owned Department of Corrections land in Salem in March. | democratherald.com | |
| Salem | Oregon Governor Kotek halted the sale of land for a data center in Salem at the Mill Creek Corporate Center, approximately 32 acres of state land | bondbuyer.com | |
| Salem | Salem will hold three town halls on data centers beginning September 15 | centraloregondaily.com | |
| Salem | Salem City Council adopted resolution to update zoning code and land use regulations to protect water, environment and electricity | statesmanjournal.com | |
| Salem | Moratorium does not apply to current data center planned for Mill Creek Corporate Center | statesmanjournal.com | |
| Salem | Salem City Council voted to move forward with temporary moratorium on AI data centers | statesmanjournal.com | |
| Salem | Salem and Woodburn have adopted moratoriums on data centers | katu.com | |
| Marion County | Salem City Council voted unanimously at a special meeting to initiate a moratorium on new data center applications, with a 45 day state notice and a public hearing still required before it takes effect. | salemreporter.com | |
| Salem | Kotek directed the state to stop the sale of state owned land in southeast Salem for a data center project on July 30 | statesmanjournal.com | |
| Salem | Salem City Council formed Data Center Task Force on July 27, 2026 | statesmanjournal.com |
What happened
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Moratorium (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Verrus $5.1 billion data center project at Mill Creek Corporate Center prohibited from construction phase as long as moratorium is in effect [28]
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Verrus application was deemed incomplete on August 28, 2026. [27]
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Verrus submitted a data center application for the Mill Creek Corporate Center on July 31, 2026, for a 5.1 billion dollar project. [27]
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Verrus is building a 5.1 billion dollar data center in Salem's Mill Creek Corporate Center [26]
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Verrus CEO Nelson Abramson filed land use application for data center with two 600,000 square foot buildings in late July 2026 [29]
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Application for roughly 100 acre AI data center in Salem Mill Creek Corporate Center deemed incomplete by city planning staff [21]
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City officials deemed the Verrus application incomplete, citing a missing noise study and archaeological review. [21]
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SEDCOR selected Verrus over multiple other prospective companies for a data center at Mill Creek Corporate Center despite Verrus having never built a data center before [25]
5 earlier entries
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Salem City Council voted unanimously at a special meeting to initiate a moratorium on new data center applications. [19]
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Alderstone LLC filed a land use application with the City of Salem for two data center buildings on three lots at the Mill Creek Corporate Center. [18]
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Governor Tina Kotek directed the Department of Administrative Services to terminate the sale of 32 acres of state land at Mill Creek to Verrus. [16]
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Residents filled Salem City Council chambers for about five hours of public comment on the proposal. [15]
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The City of Salem disclosed a proposed Verrus data center campus at the Mill Creek Corporate Center after being released from a nondisclosure agreement. [13]
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What was said
The city could extend the moratorium by six months if approved.
Nelson Abramson spent 20 years at Google including on its data center team, then ran infrastructure at X
Every statement about data centers in Oregon, by speaker
8 more statements on this page
Verrus hired a lobbyist, Drew Hagedorn, registered September 4, 2026, for data center development, energy and utilities, land use and permitting
Salem city planning staff
Verrus, the Google backed company, must resubmit application with noise study, separate application for each development site, and archaeological review
Flood Light News
Microsoft backed data center in Vineland was caught with 27 unpermitted gas fired generators, disclosed more energy use and more air pollution than promised to community
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Oregon data center market is one of the largest in the world due to property tax incentives and lack of a sales tax, with data centers first appearing around 2006
Salem community members
Verrus submitted Salem data center project on Friday to move ahead before Monday city council moratorium vote
Salem community members
Verrus operated under nondisclosure agreement from March 2025 through July 10, 2026 before submitting Salem project
SEDCOR director Erik Andersson cited Verrus's more sustainable approach as reason for selection
The site
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- Where
- Salem, Marion County, Oregon
- How exactly it is located
- Exact, on the parcel
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Apple Prineville Campus, 111 mi
Comparisons
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Permanent jobs
1 figure, 1 sourceNot disclosedNot disclosed
75 jobsReported
Show each source's words
- 75 jobs, Salem Reporter: Proposed Salem data center (Verrus project) expected to employ 75 people, according to public comment discussion
Questions about this project
7 questions answered from the record
How big is Oakline at Mill Creek?
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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 Oakline at Mill Creek?
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Verrus is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
Who will use Oakline at Mill Creek?
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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 Oakline at Mill Creek 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 Oakline at Mill Creek stand today?
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It is waiting on permits, since July 31, 2026. The newest entry, reported September 22, 2026: Verrus $5.1 billion data center project at Mill Creek Corporate Center prohibited from construction phase as long as moratorium is in effect [28].
What has Salem or Marion County decided about it?
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Salem: Salem city council voted to accept 120 day moratorium on all new data center projects with option to extend by additional six months before year end (reported September 22, 2026, source); and Salem: Salem City Council voted unanimously to pursue a moratorium in early August 2026. (reported September 21, 2026, source). 36 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
What is still unknown about Oakline at Mill Creek?
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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
Reporting
- Verrus plans three-building data center campus outside Portland, Oregon - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, July 15, 2026, query feed
- As Oregon cities buck data centers, a committee is set to propose statewide regulations - Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB, OPB, August 4, 2026, query feed
- A small Central Oregon town shoots down data center development - Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB, Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB, May 28, 2026, query feed
- Salem residents rage against proposed data center and city NDA that kept plans secret - OregonLive.com, OregonLive.com, July 30, 2026, query feed
- Data company advances Salem plan, replacing state land and beating moratorium - Salem Reporter, Salem Reporter, August 1, 2026, query feed
- Hillsboro residents push back on ‘data center explosion’ - Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB, Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB, June 3, 2026, query feed
- Verrus attempts to push on with data center campus in Salem, Oregon - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, August 4, 2026, query feed
- Hillsboro approves data center moratorium - Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB, Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB, July 27, 2026, query feed
- Salem data center project likely to proceed - salemreporter.com, salemreporter.com, July 16, 2026, query feed
- While Salem project is uncertain, Verrus advances data center in Michigan - Salem Reporter, Salem Reporter, July 31, 2026, query feed
- 5 takeaways ahead of Salem City Council’s data center moratorium meeting - Salem Reporter, Salem Reporter, August 3, 2026, query feed
- Verrus data center filing sidesteps land sale block and looming moratorium, W.Media, August 3, 2026, trade press
26 more sources
- Salem discloses proposed Mill Creek data center project after city released from NDA, Salem Reporter, July 14, 2026, local outlet
- Massive $5.1B data center proposed for Salem draws praise and pushback, KATU, July 14, 2026, local outlet
- Salem residents fill city council chambers for data center testimony, KPTV, July 28, 2026, local outlet
- Gov. Tina Kotek orders Oregon to withdraw land sale for Salem area data center, KATU, July 30, 2026, local outlet
- Kotek blocks sale of 32 acres of Mill Creek Corporate Center land for Verrus data center, Salem Reporter, July 30, 2026, local outlet
- Salem City Council initiates data center moratorium as Oakline filing lands, Salem Business Journal, August 3, 2026, local outlet
- Salem City Council convenes special meeting on data center moratorium, Salem Reporter, August 3, 2026, local outlet
- Think Out Loud: proposed Salem data center, OPB, August 11, 2026, local outlet
- Verrus application for Mill Creek data center deemed incomplete by city officials, Salem Reporter, August 28, 2026, local outlet
- Contract shows state agreed to sell 32 acres to Verrus for $6.7 million, Salem Reporter, September 3, 2026, local outlet
- Oregon Gov. Kotek stops state from selling land for Salem data center - Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB, OPB, July 30, 2026, local outlet
- Oregon Gov. Kotek orders state to cancel land sale for Salem data center - OregonLive.com, OregonLive.com, July 30, 2026, local outlet
- SEDCOR chose Verrus over multiple companies eyeing Salem for data center buildouts - Salem Reporter, Salem Reporter, August 14, 2026, local outlet
- Verrus hires lobbyist as Kotek slams breaks on data center development on public lands - salemreporter.com, salemreporter.com, September 9, 2026, local outlet
- Salem City Council to hold public hearing on data center moratorium tonight at 6 p.m., Salem Reporter, September 21, 2026, local outlet
- City attorney: Salem data center moratorium means Verrus can’t build until it expires, Salem Reporter, September 22, 2026, local outlet
- Salem wants your thoughts on data centers. How to participate - Statesman Journal, Statesman Journal (via Google News), September 8, 2026, local outlet
- Salem City Council votes in favor on moratorium on AI data centers - statesmanjournal.com, Statesman Journal (via Google News), August 4, 2026, local outlet
- Verrus surprised, disappointed by Kotek's move to block sale of 32-acres of land at Mill Creek Corporate Center - salemreporter.com, salemreporter.com, July 30, 2026, local outlet
- Gov. Kotek orders state to cancel land sale for proposed $5B Salem data center - KGW, KGW, July 30, 2026, local outlet
- Hostility to data centers boils over at Oregon city council meeting - Seattle Red, Seattle Red, July 30, 2026, local outlet
- Oregon identifies Vantage Data Centers as developer; Debate over proposed data center continues - wtol.com, wtol.com, July 29, 2026, local outlet
- Who is Verrus, the company behind Salem’s proposed data center? - Salem Reporter, Salem Reporter, August 19, 2026, local outlet
- Testimony fiercely against proposed Salem data center at council meeting - Statesman Journal, Statesman Journal, July 28, 2026, local outlet
- 75-acre data center proposed in Salem - KPTV, KPTV, July 15, 2026, local outlet
- Salem’s proposed data center faces months of review. Here’s how you can weigh in - salemreporter.com, salemreporter.com, July 23, 2026, local outlet
38 sources on file.
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- oakline-mill-creek-salem-or
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- us/or/marion-county/salem
- Coordinates
- 44.885124, -122.964954
- Location precision
- parcel
- Location source
- Marion County Assessor tax lots 082W080000400 (54.18 acres, Capstone Mill Creek Logistics LLC), 082W080000500 (13.89 acres, Scannell Properties #690 LLC) and 082W180000600 (32.13 acres, Scannell Properties #690 LLC), 100.2 acres in total, the three lots the land use application names (W.Media, 2026-08-04). Area weighted centroid of the three parcel polygons. Marion County GIS Public/Parcels, last updated 2025-02-16. https://gis.co.marion.or.us/arcgis/rest/services/Public/Parcels/MapServer/0/query?where=TAXLOT+IN+%28%27082W080000400%27%2C%27082W080000500%27%2C%27082W180000600%27%29&outFields=*&outSR=4326&f=json . Assessor records: https://mcasr.co.marion.or.us/PropertySummary.aspx?pid=608652&da=true , pid=608653, pid=608655.
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- September 4, 2026
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- 2026-09-04
- Last verified
- 2026-09-22