Hillsboro / Portland.

The market right now

Enterprise-zone tax abatements and PGE power built the cluster; the urban growth boundary caged it. What's left is expansion inside the fence line — NTT building toward 354 MW, seven-plus projects grandfathered through permitting — and battery storage prominent enough that the moratorium names it. Oregon runs its own OSHA plan and one of the strictest electrician licensing regimes in the country.

• 475.4 MW inventory at end of 2025 (CBRE H2 2025)
• Vacancy 0.2% — roughly 1.0 MW available in the entire market (CBRE H2 2025)
• Inventory grew 334% from 2020 to 2025 (CBRE press release 2025)
• Asking rents $175-225/kW/month (CBRE H2 2025)
• Hillsboro hosts 35 data centers — more than any Oregon city — with at least 7 more under construction or in permitting (OPB, July 2026)
• Portland metro overall: ~64 facilities and ~1,125 MW of power capacity (Baxtel 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

• NTT Hillsboro campus — NTT Global Data Centers · Hillsboro. Flagship US West campus; 354 MW total planned capacity with 216 MW in expansion (CBRE H1 2025)
• Digital Realty PDX — Digital Realty · Hillsboro. PDX11 alone is 553,000 sq ft (Baxtel 2026)
• Flexential Hillsboro campuses — Flexential · Hillsboro. Multiple Hillsboro sites; market's longest-tenured local operator
• QTS Hillsboro — QTS · Hillsboro. 248 MW operational across 5 Oregon sites (Baxtel 2026)
• Stack PDX campus — Stack Infrastructure · Hillsboro. Hyperscale campus in the Hillsboro cluster
• Aligned PDX-01 — Aligned Data Centers · Hillsboro. 480,000 sq ft facility (Baxtel 2026); pursuing BESS with Calibrant Energy (CBRE H2 2025)
• EdgeConneX Hillsboro — EdgeConneX · Hillsboro. Multi-building edge/hyperscale site in the cluster
• AWS Troutdale — Amazon Web Services · Troutdale. Hyperscale buildings at Troutdale Reynolds Industrial Park, east metro
• Google The Dalles — Google · The Dalles. Google's first company-built data center (2006), on the Columbia River; currently being updated (CBRE H1 2025)

Under construction & planned

• Flexential Hillsboro 6 — Flexential · Hillsboro · planned. 350,000 sq ft two-story facility announced (CBRE H2 2025)
• NTT expansion — NTT Global Data Centers · Hillsboro · under construction. 216 MW additional capacity toward 354 MW campus total (CBRE H1 2025)
• QTS Hillsboro expansion — QTS · Hillsboro · planned. Large additional campus phases planned (DCD)
• Aligned BESS colocation — Aligned / Calibrant Energy · Hillsboro · planned. Battery energy storage deployment partnership (CBRE H2 2025)
• Hillsboro permitting pipeline — Multiple · Hillsboro · under construction. At least 7 sites under construction or in permitting; pre-moratorium applications unaffected (OPB, July 2026)
• AWS Eastern Oregon expansion — Amazon Web Services · Morrow/Umatilla Co. (outside metro) · planned. 400 additional acres acquired Feb 2025 (CBRE H1 2025); note: Meta Prineville and Apple sit in Central Oregon, a separate cluster

Power

Service territory: Portland General Electric (PGE) · Northern Wasco County PUD (The Dalles).

• Hillsboro City Council enacted Oregon's first 120-day moratorium on new data center AND BESS land-use applications, July 27 2026 (OPB)
• Oregon POWER Act (HB 3546, 2025) created a separate rate class for 20 MW+ data center customers to shield residential ratepayers (CBRE H2 2025)
• PGE plans $6.5B in clean energy investment and is using GridCARE grid-planning to accelerate hundreds of MW of data center capacity (CBRE H2 2025; PGE/GridCARE 2026)
• Transmission constraints plus the urban growth boundary keep supply scarce; BESS colocation emerging (Aligned/Calibrant partnership, CBRE H2 2025)

The regulatory picture

Enforcement. Oregon OSHA is a state plan (under DCBS) with its own rules and penalty structure, historically stricter and more inspection-active than federal OSHA

Licensing. Oregon has one of the strictest state regimes: BCD-issued licenses (general journeyman, supervising electrician, limited classes) with enforced CEU and supervision requirements

Also in play. Enterprise-zone property tax abatements built the Hillsboro cluster; the July 2026 moratorium and pending development-code amendments now gate new projects; no state sales tax

What it means for the work

This is the market where regulatory literacy earns its keep: Oregon OSHA's rules, BCD license classes with enforced supervision ratios, and a BESS pipeline that makes Article 360 and NFPA 855 fluency table stakes for anyone bidding electrical work.

Oregon OSHA is a state plan with its own electrical rules and one of the nation's strictest electrician licensing regimes — training must map to state requirements

BESS is prominent enough here that the city's 2026 moratorium explicitly covers it — Article 360/NFPA 855 stored-energy competence is a differentiator

0.2% vacancy forces density upgrades inside live facilities — energized-work justification discipline under 70E 110.2(B)

Semiconductor fabs and data centers compete for the same Washington County electrical workforce, stretching qualified-person coverage