OpenAI CEO
Sam Altman said Musk is selling 'short term' space data centers to investors.
Data centers in Crook County, Oregon
Crook County has 2 data centers on the record: 2 proposed. No county rule about data centers is on the record for Crook County itself; 1 body inside it has a scorecard row. The latest decision on the record: 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 (Prineville), May 31, 2024.
How to read this page. Every count comes from the records on this page and links to where it is counted. Nothing is published until a person reads its source, and a figure no source gives reads Not disclosed; nothing is estimated. A rating changes only when a person sets it.
The 2 data centers in Crook County
Newest activity firstEach row is one site with its stage, its latest dated entry and what its sources disclose. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Apple Prineville Campus
Prineville, Crook County · Apple
Latest, reported April 30, 2026: Milestone Technologies will lay off 66 non union workers on June 28, 2026 klcc.org local outlet
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Where
Drag with one finger to move the map, pinch to zoom. Tap a pin for the data center, a county for its rules
2 data centers in Crook County: all proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record (1 of 2).
The cities in Crook County on the record (1)
| City | Projects | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| Prineville | 2 | 1 |
What Crook County has decided
1 body, 1 decision on the recordWhat the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.
Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own.
- Prinevillecity
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.
1 act on this row
- event
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
- event
What happened
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· Prineville
Scorecard event: 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 trade press
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· Apple Prineville Campus
Now reported: Apple is considering building a new data center adjacent to Facebook's facility in Prineville, Oregon, using codename Maverick datacenterknowledge.com trade press
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
Meta plans to rehire the majority of staff through a different firm as part of vendor partnership change
Every Oregon statement, by speaker
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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
Disclosed figures
nothing disclosed by 2 records
Power, water, jobs and tax
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Not disclosed | Basis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | Not disclosed | 0 | 2 | Not disclosed by any of the 2 records | |
| Water, stated per day | Not disclosed | 0 | 2 | Not disclosed by any of the 2 records | |
| Water, stated per year | Not disclosed | 0 | 2 | Not disclosed by any of the 2 records | |
| Permanent jobs | Not disclosed | 0 | 2 | Not disclosed by any of the 2 records | |
| Tax each year | Not disclosed | 0 | 2 | Not disclosed by any of the 2 records |
Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.
By what the facilities are for
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not disclosed | 2 | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed: power, water, jobs, tax each year |
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
What the facilities are for
No source on file states what any of the 2 tracked facilities in Crook County are for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 2 tracked facilities in Crook County are cooled.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Crook County, Oregon", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/or/crook-county, updated October 4, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data center records in Crook County, Oregon", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/or/crook-county. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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The rows here are part of the Oregon export.
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