Undisclosed BLM Data Center Project (Hermiston)

Umatilla County, Oregon

Proposed

~7.2mifrom the boundary ofCold Springs National Wildlife Refuge · location held to about a kilometer, so the distance is approximate

FootprintIn the pipeline, size not disclosedProposed or under construction with no published figure and no scale signal. In the queue to be read.

Source on file. The name, operator and capacity haven’t yet been read back against the source.

What’s happened here

Jun 3, 2026 Announcement
BLM tells Umatilla County it holds a data center application on public land outside Hermiston
At the county board's June 3 meeting, BLM Baker Field Manager Sarah Sherman briefed the commissioners on current projects and said the bureau had received an application for a proposed data center outside Hermiston. The minutes name no applicant, acreage or capacity. The Washington Sun's September read of BLM right-of-way records lists one Oregon data center application, by Copia Power.
This is the Oregon application in the queue that Sen. Wyden's office is writing to Interior about, on the county record three months before any newspaper had it. The site would sit in the Hermiston cluster, about seven miles from Cold Springs National Wildlife Refuge.
From the record · Umatilla County Board of Commissioners · Umatilla County Board of Commissioners, minutes of June 3, 2026

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