Verrus hired a lobbyist, Drew Hagedorn, registered September 4, 2026, for data center development, energy and utilities, land use and permitting
Data centers in Marion County, Oregon
Marion County has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. Marion County has stopped new data centers, and a pause on new data centers is on the record. The latest decision on the record: 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 (Salem), September 22, 2026.
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The data center in Marion County
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Oakline at Mill Creek
Salem, Marion County · Verrus
Latest, 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 salemreporter.com local outlet
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Where
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1 data center in Marion County: proposed.
What Marion County has decided
3 bodies, 17 decisions 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. A month with no day: the source names the month and not the day.
- Marion Countycounty
Special meeting vote to initiate a data center moratorium, August 3, 2026.
1 act on this row
- moratorium
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.
- moratorium
- Salemcity
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.
14 acts on this row
- moratorium
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
- hearing
Salem held first of three town halls to gather community input on data centers, with city council to consider formal proposal in December 2026
- event
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
- event
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.
- event
Task force was formed in response to community outcry over a $5.1 billion data center project proposed in Salem
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Salem Data Center Task Force holds first of three town halls to address data center policies at Broadway Commons
- moratorium
A Salem City Council special meeting considered a temporary citywide data center moratorium.
- event
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
Also reported by 1 source
- applevalleynewsnow.com local outlet
- ordinance
Salem City Council adopted resolution to update zoning code and land use regulations to protect water, environment and electricity
- moratorium
Salem City Council voted to move forward with temporary moratorium on AI data centers
- moratorium
Salem City Council voted unanimously to pursue a moratorium in early August 2026.
- event
Kotek directed the state to stop the sale of state owned land in southeast Salem for a data center project on July 30
- event
Salem City Council formed Data Center Task Force on July 27, 2026
- event
Kotek intervened to stop a data center proposed on state owned Department of Corrections land in Salem in March.
- moratorium
- Woodburncity
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, reported September 15, 2026.
2 acts on this row
- moratorium
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
Also reported by 1 source
- kptv.com local outlet
- moratorium adopted
Woodburn City Council unanimously approved 120 day moratorium on data center development on September 15, 2026
- moratorium
What happened
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· Salem
Moratorium: 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 local outlet
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· Salem
Hearing: 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 local outlet
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· Woodburn
Moratorium: 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 local outlet
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· Woodburn
Moratorium adopted: Woodburn City Council unanimously approved 120 day moratorium on data center development on September 15, 2026 opb.org local outlet
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· Salem
Scorecard event: 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 local outlet
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· Salem
Scorecard event: 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 local outlet
What was said
The city could extend the moratorium by six months if approved.
Town hall focused on hearing input on data center water usage, noise, job creation and electricity consumption
Nelson Abramson spent 20 years at Google including on its data center team, then ran infrastructure at X
Every Oregon statement, by speaker
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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
Disclosed figures
nothing disclosed by 1 record
Power, water, jobs and tax
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Not disclosed | Basis | |
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| Power | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per day | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Permanent jobs | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Tax each year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record |
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 | |
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| Not disclosed | 1 | 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 1 tracked facility in Marion County is for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Marion County is cooled.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Marion County, Oregon", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/or/marion-county, updated September 23, 2026.
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Data Center Record, "Data center records in Marion County, Oregon", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/or/marion-county. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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For researchers
- Place id
- us/or/marion-county
- Level
- county
- Census GEOID
- 41047
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- Scale word
- Closed