Atlas / Oregon
Oregon
OR · instruments, facilities, claims and sources, joinedInstruments
Statutes, tariffs, orders, dockets, ordinancesStarts here in this viewEvery statute, tariff, order and docket governing large loads in this state, with the collected text under each one.The rules a project here runs into: what triggers them, what they cost you to leave, what they require up front.The whole regulatory stack in this state, kind by kind.The actual laws, tariffs and orders behind any story about data centers in this state.The regime a project here is underwritten against, instrument by instrument.
Provenance key. two-reviewer a second reviewer checked the record against primary sources with no open disagreement. single-reviewer one careful reviewer built it from primary sources and no second reviewer has re-read it yet. disputed two admissible sources disagree and a re-read did not settle it.
Facilities
4 recordsStarts here in this viewThe projects on the ground here, and which instruments each one is governed by.Who is already building in this state, at what size, and under which utility.The named large loads in this state, with owner, county and status on every row.The data centers themselves: who owns them, which county they sit in, and what was announced.Announced investment and requested megawatts per project, with the status of each one.
| Facility | County | Owner | Utility | Status | Announced investment | MW requested | Governed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services Morrow County / Umatilla County Data Center Cluster (Boardman, Port of Morrow, Hermiston) or-fac-amazon-morrow-umatilla | Morrow and Umatilla Boardman (Port of Morrow) and Hermiston | Amazon.com, Inc., via Amazon Web Services, Inc. and Amazon Data Services, Inc. Amazon.com, Inc. | under-construction single-reviewer | $12B | |||
| Apple Prineville Data Center or-fac-apple-prineville | Crook Prineville | Apple Inc. Apple Inc. | operating two-reviewer | $250M | |||
| Google The Dalles Data Center Campus or-fac-google-thedalles | Wasco The Dalles | $99 Oregon pass | operating single-reviewer | $99 Oregon pass | $99 Oregon pass | ||
| Meta Prineville Data Center Campus or-fac-meta-prineville | Crook Prineville | $99 Oregon pass | Pacific Power (a division of PacifiCorp), recorded in the terms Meta's own info sheet uses: "We worked with Pacific Power, a division of PacificCorp, to meet our 100% clean and renewable energy goal for the Prineville Data Center." That is a renewable-supply relationship stated by the customer, not a filed service election, and no fetched Oregon document states who holds retail service territory at the site. | operating two-reviewer | $99 Oregon pass | $99 Oregon pass |
4 of 4 facility records name the instruments that govern them. The rest do not, and the table shows that rather than guessing.
Claims
3 recordsStarts here in this viewWhat parties asserted on the record here, quoted, with the claimant class named.What has been promised publicly in this state about jobs, tax and load.What intervenors and officials said in this state, in their own words.Who said what about data centers in this state, quoted exactly, with the source under each one.Promises made in this market, quoted. We hold what was promised, not what was delivered.
| Type | Claimant | Claim, verbatim |
|---|---|---|
| water | Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, reporting on The Oregonian/OregonLive's public-records findings press | After the city turned over Google's water-use data, The Oregonian reported that the tech company's water use "nearly tripled in the past five years, and the company's data centers now consume more than a quarter of all the water used in the city."SourceSource row two-reviewer “Following the settlement reached between The Oregonian and the city of The Dalles, a Google spokesperson told the Associated Press that the tech company would no longer seek to protect its site-level water-use numbers as a trade secret at any of its data centers nationwide. And after the city turned over Google's water-use data, The Oregonian reported that the tech company's water use "nearly tripled in the past five years, and the company's data centers now consume more than a quarter of all the water used in the city."” article body, paragraph beginning "Updates:" Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Oregon's city of The Dalles agrees to reveal Google's local water usage |
| tax_revenue | Jon Soliz, Crook County Assessor government | Nearly $200 million has been given away to Facebook and Apple in property tax breaks since 2012 when Facebook first operated its center, said Jon Soliz, Crook County assessor.SourceSource row two-reviewer “Nearly $200 million has been given away to Facebook and Apple in property tax breaks since 2012 when Facebook first operated its center, said Jon Soliz, Crook County assessor.” article body The Other Oregon - Data centers a boon for rural Oregon |
| investment | Amazon Web Services, Inc. (company statement to The Oregonian) developer | $99 Oregon pass |
Sources
Ranked highest document type firstStarts here in this viewThe primary documents under this state, each with the pinpoint that makes it checkable.The documents behind every number on this page, if you want to read the filing yourself.The filings this state's records were built from, ranked highest document type first.Every document behind this page, with a page or paragraph pinpoint. These are open on every tier.The evidence file under this state, ranked by document type and review state.
86 source rows sit under this state. Every one carries an exact quote and a pinpoint. Twelve are shown here, ranked by document type and review status; the rest are on the record pages they belong to. Every source document and every pinpoint is open, on every tier.
- Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
“In this order, we address numerous issues related to the design of Portland General Electric Company's (PGE) tariff for large loads, including creation of a customer class for data centers, specifically. While we opened this investigation in response to concerns raised in prior rate case proceedings on large loads from multiple sources, the passage of House Bill (HB) 3546, the POWER Act, created an additional statutory foundation for our work. This decision marks the first implementation of that statute, where the Legislature directed the Commission to allocate or directly assign the costs of serving a data center to those customers specifically and mitigate the risk that other classes of customers are paying unwarranted costs.”
PDF p.1 (Introduction)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf
Fetched directly via curl (Chrome UA), 77-page PDF (34.6MB). [OR GATE 2026-08-24 - METHOD CORRECTION] This PDF is NOT born-digital. Its producer string is "Adobe Acrobat (64-bit) 26 Paper Capture Plug-in" (Adobe's OCR engine); each page is roughly 1.3 MB of traced vector outlines with an invisible OCR text layer behind it and ZERO embedded images, so the images-plus-text scanned-page test does not fire. The native PyMuPDF layer is measurably corrupt (Staff's -> "Staffs", C AND I -> "CANDI", 100 -> "I 00", AWEC -> "A WEC", PGE's -> "PGE' s", UM 2377 -> "UM2377"). This quote was re-verified against a fresh 300 dpi render of the cited page run through tesseract. DO NOT quote this document from its native text layer. - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
“The POWER Act requires Schedule 96 customers to execute contracts with minimum demand provisions based on the customer's "projected electricity usage," but does not specify the level of the minimum demand. For MGD and MTD, the parties have coalesced around either 80 percent or 90 percent for Schedule 96 customers. We adopt a MGD and MTD of 90 percent, finding that they are consistent with the POWER Act's directive to avoid shifting costs from large data centers to other rate classes and will result in just and reasonable rates.”
PDF p.42 (MGD/MTD resolution)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf
Same fetch as prior source row. [OR GATE 2026-08-24 - METHOD CORRECTION] This PDF is NOT born-digital. Its producer string is "Adobe Acrobat (64-bit) 26 Paper Capture Plug-in" (Adobe's OCR engine); each page is roughly 1.3 MB of traced vector outlines with an invisible OCR text layer behind it and ZERO embedded images, so the images-plus-text scanned-page test does not fire. The native PyMuPDF layer is measurably corrupt (Staff's -> "Staffs", C AND I -> "CANDI", 100 -> "I 00", AWEC -> "A WEC", PGE's -> "PGE' s", UM 2377 -> "UM2377"). This quote was re-verified against a fresh 300 dpi render of the cited page run through tesseract. DO NOT quote this document from its native text layer. ARTIFACT NOTE: the order prints its own footnote marker 55 inline immediately after the words "projected electricity usage," - the stored quote omits it, which is why a strict contiguity check flags this row. Verbatim once the inline footnote marker is stripped. - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
“We find that Staff's recommendation to require a term of 10 years for a 20 MW load, with the term increasing by one year for each 10 MW increment in load up to a maximum of 30 years for a load 220 MW or greater is reasonable and consistent with the requirements of the POWER Act. Contract renewals will be for 10 years across the board”
PDF p.36 (Rule I contract-term resolution)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf
Same fetch as prior source row. [OR GATE 2026-08-24 - METHOD CORRECTION] This PDF is NOT born-digital. Its producer string is "Adobe Acrobat (64-bit) 26 Paper Capture Plug-in" (Adobe's OCR engine); each page is roughly 1.3 MB of traced vector outlines with an invisible OCR text layer behind it and ZERO embedded images, so the images-plus-text scanned-page test does not fire. The native PyMuPDF layer is measurably corrupt (Staff's -> "Staffs", C AND I -> "CANDI", 100 -> "I 00", AWEC -> "A WEC", PGE's -> "PGE' s", UM 2377 -> "UM2377"). This quote was re-verified against a fresh 300 dpi render of the cited page run through tesseract. DO NOT quote this document from its native text layer. TWO CORRECTIONS ON THIS ROW: (a) the pinpoint was recorded as PDF p.34-35; the passage is on PDF p.36. (b) The quote previously read "Staffs" (no apostrophe), which the collector recorded as "reproduced exactly as it appears in the source PDF's extracted text" alongside the note "OCR-note: not applicable, born-digital PDF." Both halves of that were wrong: the extracted text IS an OCR layer, and the page itself plainly prints "Staff's" with a curly apostrophe - confirmed by a fresh 300 dpi tesseract pass, by a 900 dpi crop, and by direct visual inspection of the rendered glyphs. Corrected to the document's own text. - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377, First Partial Stipulation (Appendix A) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 366 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.72 (Appendix A p.1, First Partial Stipulation opening paragraph)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 151 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.1 (caption, disposition line)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 484 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.5 (HB 3546 definition and the order's own shorthand)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 187 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.5 (order's naming convention)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 440 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.45 (system capacity deposit resolution)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 371 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.50 (Rule I exit-fee resolution)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 294 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.50 (Coalition witness quotation, Souder)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 213 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF pp.43-44 (minimum distribution demand resolution)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377, First Partial Stipulation (Appendix A) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 477 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.73 (Appendix A p.2, stipulation items 3 and 4)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf