Crook County, Oregon

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

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Key takeaways

Crook County has 25,651 residents and a median household income of $81,675. The county seat Prineville has 10,736 residents, with a median age of 40.6, but hosts both Meta and Apple's primary Pacific Northwest data center clusters.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003, B19013 (Crook County, OR) + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Prineville, OR)
PacifiCorp's Oregon residential rate rose 30.0%, from 10.8 to 14.0 cents per kWh between 2021 and 2023. That adds about $349 per year to a typical Crook County household bill, the steepest 3-year residential rate move in any batch-3 county.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (PacifiCorp, OR)
Property tax assessments rose 14.5% over three years against a $423,300 median home value. Both Apple and Meta have invested over $1 billion each in Prineville since the late 2000s, anchoring the assessed-value rise.Source: data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 41013) + Census ACS 2023 B25077 + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Prineville, OR)
Facebook selected Prineville in 2010 for its first owned data center anywhere in the world, the template every hyperscaler later copied for rural Western Oregon sites. The campus now scales across multiple buildings on the same parcel.Source: sources[0] (Wikipedia: Prineville, OR) + data/sites/data_centers.csv (Prineville Meta)

11.8% of Crook County adults are veterans (2,428 veterans), the highest veteran share in any batch-3 county. The retired-military draw of Central Oregon shapes the labor pool Apple and Meta hire local operators from.Source: Census ACS 2023 B21001 (Crook County, OR)
Median gross rent in Crook County is $1,224, more than Wasco ($978) and Umatilla ($962) combined per square foot proxy. Prineville's housing market is the most expensive in the Oregon AI hydro cluster, a consequence of the 14-year Apple and Meta capital flow.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25064 (Crook County, OR)
75.6% of Crook County housing is owner-occupied, the highest ownership rate of any Oregon AI county. The Prineville campuses sit in a market where any further price spike from new builds flows mostly to existing homeowner equity rather than rental displacement.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25003 (Crook County, OR)
Only 84.1% of Crook residents lived in the same county a year earlier, the lowest residential stickiness of any Oregon AI county. The Bonneville Power-anchored data center economy is actively pulling in-migration in a county of 25,651 people.Source: Census ACS 2023 B07001 (Crook County, OR)