How much power does AWS Hillsboro use?

AWS Hillsboro has a reported power capacity of 460 MW.

What tax breaks has AWS Hillsboro received?

Amazon.com, Inc. has received $16.7M in tracked tax abatements across its sites. No state discloses the recipient at the individual-facility level.

Has AWS Hillsboro had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for AWS Hillsboro.

Where is AWS Hillsboro located?

AWS Hillsboro is in Hillsboro, Washington County, OR.

Mapped (unverified)hyperscale

AWS Hillsboro

Q: Who owns AWS Hillsboro?

AWS Hillsboro is operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc..

Hillsboro, Washington County, OR

AWS Hillsboro is a mapped data center in Washington County, OR, operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 460 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent

Amazon.com, Inc.

Operator

Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Power

460 MW

Utility

Portland General Electric Co

Grid

PGE

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Overview

AWS Hillsboro is a hyperscale data center in Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon, operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc., a subsidiary ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc. Operational since 2017, the site carries a reported power capacity of 460 MW, drawing electricity from Portland General Electric Co within the PGE balancing authority.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Amazon.com, Inc.
Files as
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
This facility
AWS Hillsboro

In the news

source: GDELT

Data-center discussions in Washington County

source: LocalView (CC0)

Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.

Hillsboro School Board

Jan 10, 2023 · 2 data-center mentions

Hillsboro School Board

Aug 8, 2023 · 1 data-center mention

Hillsboro School Board

May 24, 2022 · 1 data-center mention

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Amazon.com, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Total to this operator: $16.7M

Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (Morrow County School District 1)$16,668,806
Morrow County School District 1, OR · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source

Statewide cost of this incentive

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.

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Water use

Modeled estimate~6.8M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~2.8M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~4M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 460 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 ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow

PM2.5

Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Hillsboro), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$141.3K

People of color

32%

Below poverty

Tract population

6,527

Demographics 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 / NCES

The nearest public school, Glencoe High School in Hillsboro, is 992 ft from this site (1,500 students). 7 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.