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Mayor credits data-center growth for jobs and downtown revival
Summary
Mayor Beebe said Meta’s 2010 data-center decision and later expansions, plus other tech investments, catalyzed Prineville’s economic revival, creating construction and operations jobs and supporting downtown businesses.
Mayor Beebe framed the city's recent economic gains around the arrival and expansion of large data centers. "It all began in 2010 when Facebook, now Meta, chose our city as a site for its very first company-owned data center," he said, and credited subsequent campus expansions with attracting other tech firms including Apple.
The mayor linked those investments to local job creation, reporting that 2025 expansions at the Meta campus created "over 200 new jobs in construction, operations, and support services" and saying that growth has fueled a 15% increase in local business revenues. He also noted the planned sunset of property-tax incentives for data centers, which the city projects will begin generating tax revenue starting in 2027.
