Additionally, the data centers have created about 7,400 full-time equivalent jobs regionally, and Dorran said they have added about $9 billion to the gross domestic product in Eastern Oregon.

The organization says HB 2816 “targets data centers in eastern Oregon,” putting them in a tough opposition because they have no say over how the utilities that supply their electricity obtain it.

The Energy Northwest Morrison Energy Center in Richland, Wash. Courtesy of Amazon / Courtesy photo. In its quest to continue powering Eastern Oregon data centers, Amazon is going nuclear.

A legislative committee held its first hearing Monday on a bill that would require new Oregon data centers and cryptocurrency miners to meet clean-energy targets, a proposal opponents say could ...

Amazon’s server farms in eastern Oregon are using much less fossil fuel to power their operations, new data shows, sharply ...

Oregon’s largest data centers operate in eastern and central Oregon, regions that were largely exempted from carbon emissions standards the Legislature established for big private utilities ...

Amazon said its Oregon data centers are now powered with 95% renewable energy, but it wasn’t immediately clear how the company was calculating its climate impacts in eastern Oregon.

While Eastern Oregon’s data center boom is driven in part by access to the hydroelectric power supplied by the Columbia River, Cullen said the supply is starting to tap out.

Amazon is poised for massive expansion of its data center operations in eastern Oregon on 400 acres the company is buying in ...

Data centers already account for 11% of Oregon’s electricity consumption, according to industry estimates. That’s more than twice as much as all the homes in Portland. And it’s only the ...

Most are in the Portland Metro area, Central Oregon near Prineville, and Eastern Oregon near Hermiston and Boardman. A data center can use as much electricity as 50,000 homes.

When Amazon came to Eastern Oregon about 15 years ago, many people didn’t know what to expect from the large company setting up new buildings to serve as “data centers.” Today, many still ...