Google · The Dalles, Oregon

Google The Dalles

185MW

The power of 150,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Mar 2025.

Capital cost
$5.8B
Chips
TPU v6e, TPU v5p, TPU v5e, TPU v7
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Power over time

facility power · 3 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 21 May 2023 — First signs of construction.
  2. 7 Mar 2025 93 MW Building 1 is estimated to be operational, based on all external equipment being installed.
  3. 29 Apr 2026 185 MW Building 2 is estimated to be operational, based on all external equipment being installed, and ordinary cars parked by the building.

Hydro and gas lead the two grids that serve Wasco County

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Bonneville Power Administration BPAT · balancing authority

  1. Gas 4%
  2. Coal 0%
  3. Nuclear 11%
  4. Wind 8%
  5. Solar 1%
  6. Hydro 76%
  7. Other 1%

PacifiCorp - West PACW · balancing authority

  1. Gas 40%
  2. Coal 0%
  3. Nuclear 0%
  4. Wind 22%
  5. Solar 10%
  6. Hydro 25%
  7. Other 3%

The utilities that serve Wasco County, OR, report to 2 grids; the data does not show which one feeds the site. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

Owners plan 2.1 GW of new power in Wasco County, mostly solar

power plants in Wasco County · EIA-860M, September 2026
  1. Deschutes Solar and BESS Solar · 2.0 GW · Nov 2029 · proposed · DECH bn, LLC
  2. Sunset Solar Solar · 103 MW · Dec 2028 · proposed · Avangrid Power LLC

In service in Wasco County today: 2.0 GW. Since January 2023: 212 MW added, 0 MW retired. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI
  1. Permit confirming this is a data center and the internal square footage
  2. Google PUE data listing the "3rd facility" from Q3 2025

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of The Dalles. Grid: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930), public domain, retrieved 16 Oct 2026; utilities by county from Form EIA-861 and the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, public domain. Power plants: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, public domain, inventory as of September 2026. All sources.