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No company was attached to the annexed land at the time of the vote ([OPB, Sep 10 2025](https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/10/hermiston-oregon-data-center-amazon-eastern-ai-technology-power/))","sourceUrl":"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/10/hermiston-oregon-data-center-amazon-eastern-ai-technology-power/"},{"label":"UGB / ~810-acre hyperscale overlay (reported Hermiston Herald)","value":"Hermiston Herald reports the City Council (Aug 25 2025) approved first readings to expand the urban growth boundary and set aside about 810 acres for future large-scale data center development under a Hyperscale Data Center Overlay Zone limited to data-center use. City planner Clint Spencer cited the city's 2024 Economic Opportunities Analysis finding a shortage of 100-acre industrial sites, with two data centers already under construction inside city limits ([Hermiston Herald, Aug 26 2025](https://hermistonherald.com/2025/08/26/hermiston-takes-steps-to-accommodate-massive-data-centers/))","sourceUrl":"https://hermistonherald.com/2025/08/26/hermiston-takes-steps-to-accommodate-massive-data-centers/"},{"label":"Jobs / valuation framing (reported local)","value":"Hermiston Herald cites city projections that full data-center buildout on the expanded UGB could bring hundreds of millions of dollars in new valuation and job creation, and notes Umatilla County information-sector jobs (including data-center operations) rose from 170 to 880 since 2018. OPB separately cites a 2024 city-commissioned economic analysis projecting more than 1,500 data-center jobs over 20 years. Treat as municipal projections, not AWS-disclosed headcount ([Hermiston Herald, Aug 26 2025](https://hermistonherald.com/2025/08/26/hermiston-takes-steps-to-accommodate-massive-data-centers/); [OPB, Sep 10 2025](https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/10/hermiston-oregon-data-center-amazon-eastern-ai-technology-power/))","sourceUrl":"https://hermistonherald.com/2025/08/26/hermiston-takes-steps-to-accommodate-massive-data-centers/"}],"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/10/hermiston-oregon-data-center-amazon-eastern-ai-technology-power/","date":"2025-09-10","title":"Hermiston clears the way for data center industry","publisher":"OPB"},{"url":"https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amazon-looking-to-develop-more-data-centers-in-oregons-hermiston/","date":"2024-01-01","title":"Amazon looking to develop more data centers in Oregon's Hermiston","publisher":"Data Center Dynamics"},{"url":"https://hermistonherald.com/2025/08/26/hermiston-takes-steps-to-accommodate-massive-data-centers/","date":"2025-08-26","title":"Hermiston takes steps to accommodate massive data centers","publisher":"Hermiston Herald"}],"reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-08-17T20:25:06.176Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-29T06:43:39.948Z","location":{"id":"6caed8f6-fb8a-4b9b-a3c4-5dc47c0de8b7","name":"Hermiston","slug":"hermiston-oregon","kind":"city","parentLocationId":"f7d56e51-36fd-4beb-b462-aa645f88e331","region":"Oregon","lat":45.8404101,"lng":-119.28946,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","aliases":[],"collisionRisk":"high","reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-08-17T20:25:05.790Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-21T03:20:12.226Z"},"parties":[{"id":"a0e0fb80-55f8-45e7-a23f-b2064397eecd","dataCenterId":"14b61c59-fa5c-4cf4-8fe6-6bade90cae32","companyId":null,"externalName":"Hermiston Energy Services","role":"utility","structureNotes":"Municipal utility supplied via BPA; 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