Meta Prineville
Prineville, Crook County, OR
Meta Prineville is a mapped data center in Crook County, OR, operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 540 MW of reported power capacity at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.
Overview
Meta Prineville is a hyperscale data center in Prineville, Crook County, Oregon, operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc. Operational since 2011, the site draws on a reported power capacity of 540 MW, supplied by the Bonneville Power Administration within the BPAT balancing authority.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentMeta Platforms, Inc.
- Files asFacebook USA, Inc.
- This facilityMeta 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 data center committee - Redmond SpokesmanRedmond Spokesman· Mar 5, 2026
- Prineville leaders present at Oregon’s data center advisory committee session - Your Oregon NewsYour Oregon News· Mar 5, 2026
- Meta Platforms : Partners With Reliance on AI-Enabled Data Center in India - marketscreener.commarketscreener.com· Jun 10, 2026
- Meta Platforms (META) In Talks with CleanSpark for Data Center Facility Lease - Yahoo FinanceYahoo Finance· Jun 9, 2026
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77These 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.
- Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
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 540 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, Crook County Middle School in Prineville, is 1,015 ft from this site (617 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.