Has Meta had environmental violations?

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

Mapped (unverified)

Meta

Q: Who owns Meta?

Meta is operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc..

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in Oregon?

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)). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

Crook County, OR

Source: OpenStreetMap

Meta is a mapped data center in Crook County, OR, operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 269,642 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Est. capacity

~50-110 MW

Footprint

269,642 sq ft

Interconnection

~175 MW

Utility

Bonneville Power Administration

Grid

BPAT

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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

Meta Prineville Data Center, phase1

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Files as
Facebook USA, Inc.
This facility
Meta

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

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

Dollar value not disclosed for this record.

Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2022 · 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~2.6M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~1.1M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~1.5M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 175 MW (interconnection capacity): 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 (Prineville), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$81.8K

People of color

15%

Below poverty

10%

Tract population

5,267

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, Cascade Virtual Academy in Prineville, is 1.7 mi from this site (731 students).

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.