Apple Prineville
Crook County, OR
Apple Prineville is a mapped data center in Crook County, OR, operated by Apple Data Services LLC and ultimately owned by Apple Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 320 MW of reported power capacity at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify
Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.
Overview
Apple Prineville is a hyperscale data center in Crook County, Oregon, operated by Apple Data Services LLC and ultimately owned by Apple Inc. Operational since 2013, the site reports a power capacity of 320 MW, drawing electricity from the Bonneville Power Administration within the BPAT balancing authority.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentApple Inc.
- Files asApple Data Services LLC
- This facilityApple Prineville
In the news
source: GDELT- Prineville data center with connection to Meta will lay off 66 - NPR for OregoniansNPR for Oregonians· Apr 30, 2026
- Prineville data center with connection to Meta will lay off 66 - Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPBOregon Public Broadcasting - OPB· Apr 30, 2026
- Prineville leaders present at Oregon’s data center advisory committee session - Your Oregon NewsYour Oregon News· Mar 5, 2026
- Prineville leaders present at Oregon data center committee - Redmond SpokesmanRedmond Spokesman· Mar 5, 2026
- Boomtown and battleground: Small Oregon county grapples with data centers’ impact - OregonLive.comOregonLive.com· May 30, 2026
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
Oregon reported $26.9M in Enterprise Zone (Long-Term Rural EZ, ORS 285C.400) property-tax abatement — Crook County (Meta Prineville campus) for FY2025 (Crook County, Oregon (audited financial statements / GASB 77 note)). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.
Water use
No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 320 MW (disclosed IT power): 1.2 L/kWh cooling (cool climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Prineville), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.
Who lives nearby
source: Census ACS 2023Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, Insight School Of Oregon Painted Hills in Mitchell, is 0.5 mi from this site (170 students). 6 public schools sit within a mile of the site.
Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).
Hearings timeline
No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.