Facebook has hired a Salem lobbyist to make sure the company doesn’t face additional taxes on its massive Prineville data center.
Facebook has hired a Salem lobbyist to take up its cause at the Legislature’s session this February, pressing to ensure the company doesn’t face additional taxes on its massive — and growing — Prineville data center.
The company has an enterprise zone agreement with Crook County that exempts its 333,000-square-foot data center, and the thousands of expensive computers inside, from local property taxes.
That saved the company a little more than $1.7 million last year, and the savings figure to grow substantially as the Prineville facility doubles in size (the property was assessed as of January, four months before the data center began operating).
