We are located in Bend–about 35 miles from Prineville.
If the data center there means local jobs for central Oregon, I hope they choose the location. Unemployment is bad here.
Cool. Prineville is kind of "out in the boonies", as they say, though. It was previously known as the HQ of Les "free beef" Schwab tires. We stayed the night there when we took my wife's (Italian) parents on a tour of Oregon ( http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2007/08/31/the-wild-west ). Almost makes me a bit nostalgic for 'home'.
Prineville is remote. If you had a tech job in Prineville and lost it, it's a guarantee that you'd be moving. Oh, and no Universtiy within a hundred miles so no continuing education either (unless it's online).