Central Washington.

The market right now

Microsoft has built here since 2007; Sabey, Vantage, CyrusOne, H5 and Yahoo fill out the Quincy grid, with Sabey and Microsoft across the river in Douglas County and AI conversions coming to Moses Lake. The $260M Quincy Transmission Expansion — six new lines including a 32-mile 230 kV run — keeps high-voltage construction in the valley through 2029.

• Quincy (pop ~8,200) hosts 8 data center facilities that consume 37% of Grant County PUD's power generation (Spokesman-Review, 2026)
• Grant PUD generates 2,000+ MW, mostly from its Priest Rapids and Wanapum dams on the Columbia River (Spokesman-Review, 2026)
• Data centers paid 57% of all taxes collected in Quincy — $20M in 2024, up from $9.8M in 2018 (Spokesman-Review, 2026)
• The $260M Quincy Transmission Expansion adds six new lines, incl. a 32-mile 230kV Wanapum-Mountain View line, by 2029 (Spokesman-Review, 2026)
• Microsoft co-funded a 180 MW substation and 2M-gallon reservoir for its Douglas County campus (DCD)
• Grant County Investment Alliance members report ~5,000 new jobs created regionally (Spokesman-Review, 2026)

Every campus on the map

Solid copper markers are operating campuses; white markers are under construction; dashed outlines are announced or planned. Locations are approximate campus-level centroids compiled from public sources — county records, operator announcements, and market reports — as of August 2026. Dense clusters are grouped. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.

Operating campuses mapped

• Microsoft Quincy campuses — Microsoft · Quincy, Grant Co. Multiple campuses since 2007; ~400 employees (Spokesman-Review, 2026)
• Sabey Intergate.Quincy — Sabey Data Centers · Quincy, Grant Co. Multi-tenant hydro-powered colocation campus
• Vantage WA1 — Vantage Data Centers · Quincy, Grant Co. Third and final building at the Quincy campus launched (DCD)
• CyrusOne Quincy — CyrusOne · Quincy, Grant Co. Colocation facility in the Quincy cluster (Data Center Frontier)
• H5 Quincy — H5 Data Centers · Quincy, Grant Co. 40 MW facility; ~100 workers (Data Center Map; Spokesman-Review, 2026)
• Yahoo Quincy — Yahoo (Oath) · Quincy, Grant Co. Longstanding hyperscale site in the Quincy cluster (Spokesman-Review, 2026)
• Sabey Intergate.Columbia — Sabey Data Centers · East Wenatchee, Douglas Co. Douglas County hydro-fed colocation campus
• Microsoft Douglas County — Microsoft · East Wenatchee / Baker Flats. Wenatchee Valley campus, first phase built out (Wenatchee World)

Under construction & planned

• Microsoft Douglas Co expansion — Microsoft · East Wenatchee, Douglas Co · under construction. Expansion backed by a new 180 MW substation and 2M-gallon reservoir Microsoft is helping fund (DCD)
• Bitfarms Moses Lake conversion — Bitfarms · Moses Lake, Grant Co · planned. Former bitcoin mine site to be converted to an AI data center (Columbia Basin/SourceOne, 2026)
• Keel Infrastructure Moses Lake — Keel Infrastructure · Moses Lake, Grant Co · planned. AI infrastructure campus pilot project (datacenters.com; Northwise, 2026)
• Grant PUD Energy Park — Grant County PUD (host) · Grant Co · planned. Pre-feasibility study underway for a large-load energy park (Grant PUD, 2026)

Power

Service territory: Grant County PUD · Douglas County PUD · Chelan County PUD.

• Cheap Columbia River hydro (Priest Rapids, Wanapum, Wells dams) built the cluster; large-load growth now strains PUD capacity
• $260M Quincy Transmission Expansion (six lines by 2029) is the region's key interconnection unlock (Spokesman-Review, 2026)
• Grant PUD is running a pre-feasibility study on an 'Energy Park' model for siting future large loads (Grant PUD commission materials, 2026)
• Regional caution is rising: Avista paused talks on a 500 MW Spokane-area data center (Spokesman-Review, 2026)

The regulatory picture

Enforcement. Washington is a state-plan state: DOSH within the Dept of Labor & Industries (L&I); L&I also runs mandatory electrical plan review and inspections, and WA maintains state-specific electrical safety rules.

Licensing. Among the nation's strictest: electricians must hold L&I certification — 01 general journey-level requires ~8,000 supervised hours plus exam — with enforced trainee supervision ratios and EL01 contractor licensing.

Also in play. WA's rural-county data center sales tax exemption (Grant and Douglas counties qualify) underpins the Quincy cluster; data center taxes now fund the majority of Quincy's city budget (Spokesman-Review, 2026).

What it means for the work

Some of these halls have run for fifteen-plus years and are being re-geared for AI densities — aging switchgear, modern loads, and a rural setting hours from the nearest training hub. Washington's 01 journey-level card proves hours worked, not arc-flash competence; the 70E program still has to be built and taught.

Hydro-fed switchyards and the six-line 230kV Quincy transmission build-out (through 2029) mean sustained high-voltage construction and switching work

WA's strict 01 journey-level certification and L&I electrical inspections set a high compliance bar — employers need documented NFPA 70E programs to match

Decade-old data halls (Microsoft, Yahoo, Sabey) are being retrofitted for higher densities — energized work in aging gear far from any utility-style safety culture

Remote rural location: crews are hours from major training hubs, making on-site and traveling electrical-safety training genuinely scarce