County · Oregon
Marion County
Population 355,777 · Census Bureau Vintage-2025 estimate
Last scored Jul 13, 2026 · Data may be stale
Composite · JPAS tier readings
Power
Power reads 63 of 100, sourced evidence. Power measures grid capacity, interconnection-queue depth, generation mix, retail price and substation density. Interconnection-queue depth is an estimated roll-up (EST); queue vintage PJM 2026-04-28, CAISO 2025-02-12.
Politics
Regulatory reads 75 of 100, sourced evidence. Regulatory measures air-quality designation under the Clean Air Act and commercial permitting activity. Regulatory is evidenced by air-quality designation and permitting activity; a county absent from EPA's nonattainment list reads as attainment.
Community reads 46 of 100, sourced evidence. Community measures enacted moratoria, pending legislation and farmland share as signals of local consent.
Incentives reads 66 of 100, sourced evidence. Incentives measures state program baselines and disclosed awards for data-center and industrial projects.
Resources
Water reads 95 of 100, sourced evidence. Water measures drinking-water system health, basin stress, streamflow and groundwater conditions.
Real estate / site reads 72 of 100, sourced evidence. Real estate / site measures developable land share, convertible sites, substation hosting and permit velocity.
Environmental reads 18 of 100, sourced evidence. Environmental measures FEMA hazard risk across riverine, coastal, wind, wildfire and related perils.
Labor reads 73 of 100, sourced evidence. Labor measures electrician depth, wages, unemployment and prevailing-wage floors in the county labor market.
Connectivity
Connectivity is not yet activated as a brief section; the Network tier reading is shown.
Network reads 91 of 100, sourced evidence. Network measures broadband availability, fiber and middle-mile programs, and exchange-point proximity.
Density · JDS
Density · Minimal · 19 of 100
Data-center density is absent in this county (JDS Minimal, 19 of 100). County grain: computed from facilities, construction and permitted projects resolved to this county.
Trajectory · JTS
- ModeledJTS-01 Trajectory rate of change — falling — Modeled — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
- SpeculativeJTS-02 Inflection points — falling — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
- ModeledJTS-03 Trajectory volatility — falling — Modeled — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
- SpeculativeJTS-04 Momentum — rising — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
- SpeculativeJTS-05 Forecast confidence decay — falling — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
- ModeledJTS-07 Utility capital investment trend — rising — Modeled — covers 2020–2025
Windows held: 2026 · 2020–2025. Direction and evidence label only; horizons extend only as data lands.
Commercial Permit Activity
6 permits in this jurisdiction · 0 over 10,000 sq ft · 1 energy
Commercial · electrical · new-construction permits filed 2024+ (Shovels.ai)
Water & Cooling Readiness
Water posture inferred from statewide data; no jurisdiction-level water measurement is available.
Gauge data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
Local Moratorium Activity
2 data-center moratorium instruments tracked across municipalities in this county · 2 currently in force
Salem · Woodburn
Data: Moratorium Nation (mjbommar) — CC-BY-4.0
JPS Score Breakdown · Jurisdiction Posture Score
Per-dimension posture values are not yet published for this jurisdiction.
Infrastructure Map
Faraday's Read
Marion County currently sits in the Cautious tier with a posture score of 25 out of 100, driven largely by a weak permitting dimension score of 2, suggesting significant friction in the approval pathway for data center development. The jurisdiction's evidentiary base is reasonably robust, with a "Good" quality rating of 74.06 and "Medium" completeness of 66.5, and sourced attributes (confidence 0.85) span environmental, incentive, labor, network, power, regulatory, and water categories, giving the record decent breadth even if not full coverage. The posture forecast direction is listed as stable, though this comes with an "Unscored" confidence label, so that outlook should be treated as tentative rather than a firm signal. Historical data shows the jurisdiction moved from a Restricted tier to Cautious in early July 2026, alongside a scale migration that recalibrated scoring methodology, though no analyst commentary accompanies that transition. No data center facilities are currently recorded as operational or planned in this jurisdiction, and development density (jds) data is entirely absent, leaving that dimension of the picture unknown.
Gilbert Faraday · Jul 17, 2026
Recent Signals
No signal events in the past 30 days for this jurisdiction.