Oregon Data Centers
Hillsboro and Portland Colocation, Flexential Hillsboro and the Oregon Data Center Map
Hillsboro has the lowest data center vacancy in the country, and the city has paused new applications. Send us the requirement before you call a data center, and it gets quoted across the Oregon operators that fit, at once.
Price My Oregon RequirementOregon data centers for colocation are concentrated in Hillsboro and Portland, and Hillsboro is now the tightest data center market in the country. CBRE put Hillsboro vacancy at 0.21 percent in the first half of 2026, across about 491 MW of inventory, with asking rents of $175 to $225 per kW per month, and the City of Hillsboro has paused applications for new and expanded data centers. Elsewhere in the state, Prineville, The Dalles and Boardman host hyperscale campuses run by Meta, Apple, Google and others rather than colocation. For a buyer, the space that exists in Hillsboro today is what there is, so the requirement should reach every operator that can serve it at the same time, with the nearest alternatives priced alongside if nothing fits.
Sources: CBRE on Hillsboro, H2 2025 (rents); CBRE North America Data Center Trends H1 2026 (rates unchanged); H1 2026 vacancy and inventory as reported by the Hillsboro Herald; CBRE Hillsboro market profile (contiguous space); the moratorium as reported in Oregon news coverage. Figures as of September 2026.
One requirement goes to Flexential, Digital Realty and other Hillsboro and Portland operators that fit, on the same day. Call a data center directly and its sales team prices you as the only option.
At 0.21 percent vacancy, the question is which building has space at your density on your date. We find out before you spend weeks on tours.
If nothing fits in time, we price the nearest alternatives alongside, from Seattle and Quincy to Phoenix and Silicon Valley, so you are not left waiting.
The operator you choose pays us from its channel budget. Your rate is not marked up, and you'll hear back within 24 hours.
Oregon Data Center Map
Oregon's data centers sit in four clusters along the Columbia River and in Central Oregon. Colocation buyers will almost always be looking at Hillsboro and Portland; the other three are dominated by hyperscale campuses that run their own facilities.
Colocation: Flexential, Digital Realty, QTS, NTT, Aligned, EdgeConneX, T5, H5 and the Pittock Block carrier hotel.
Google's campus, Oregon's first data center, opened in 2006.
Hyperscale campuses in Morrow and Umatilla counties.
Meta's first company-owned data center campus, and Apple.
Locations from public facility listings and KLCC reporting, September 2026. Free to cite with a link to this page.
Oregon Data Center Regions Compared
| Region | What is there | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Hillsborothe colocation core | Flexential's five data centers with a sixth planned, Digital Realty PDX10 to PDX12, QTS, NTT, Aligned and EdgeConneX, with access to trans-Pacific fiber | Enterprise and wholesale colocation, West Coast primary or recovery sites, Asia-Pacific connectivity |
| Downtown Portlandthe carrier hotel | The Pittock Block and smaller downtown colocation | Network interconnection and peering |
| PrinevilleCentral Oregon | Meta and Apple campuses, plus small local colocation in Bend | Hyperscale; limited colocation |
| The Dalles, Boardman and Hermistonthe Columbia River | Google in The Dalles and hyperscale campuses around Boardman and Hermiston | Hyperscale; little or no retail colocation |
Hillsboro and Portland Colocation: The Facilities
Almost every Portland colocation search ends up comparing Hillsboro data centers, about 15 miles west of downtown, with a smaller set of downtown Portland data centers. Whichever Hillsboro, Oregon data center you start with, these are the operators to compare.
| Operator | Oregon facilities | Built for |
|---|---|---|
| Flexential | Hillsboro 1 through Hillsboro 5, mainly on NE Starr Boulevard and NE Huffman Street, with Hillsboro 6 planned | Enterprise colocation through high-density AI deployments; Flexential's largest cluster |
| Digital Realty | PDX10, PDX11 and PDX12 in Hillsboro | Enterprise and wholesale colocation with interconnection |
| QTS | Hillsboro campus on NE Huffman Street | Hyperscale and wholesale capacity |
| NTT, Aligned and EdgeConneX | Hillsboro campuses | Wholesale and hyperscale capacity |
| Pittock Block, H5 and T5 | Downtown and close-in Portland | Carrier interconnection and smaller colocation footprints |
Facility details from operator materials and public listings, including Flexential and Data Center Map, September 2026. See every operator side by side in the provider comparison.
Flexential Hillsboro: Hillsboro 1 to 6
Flexential runs more data centers in Hillsboro than in any other market, and its campus is the core of Oregon's colocation market. The buildings range from established enterprise halls to newer high-density space, and Flexential has bought land for a sixth building across from Hillsboro 1.
| Building | Where | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Hillsboro 1 | Hillsboro campus | The original campus building, about 5.3 MW |
| Hillsboro 2 | 5737 NE Huffman Street | About 18 MW, built for densities over 1,500 watts per square foot |
| Hillsboro 3 | 5419 NE Starr Boulevard | A 358,000 square foot high-density data center |
| Hillsboro 4 and 5 | 4915 and 4975 NE Starr Boulevard | The newest campus phase; Hillsboro 4 adds 18 MW with room for 54 MW more |
| Hillsboro 6 | Across from Hillsboro 1 | Planned sixth building |
Sources: Flexential Hillsboro 4; Hillsboro 2 listing; Baxtel on Hillsboro 1 and 6, September 2026.
Flexential and Digital Realty are both channel partners of ours. They pay us from their channel budgets, so your rate is not marked up and you pay us nothing.
Your requirement goes to Flexential's five Hillsboro buildings and Digital Realty's three on the same day, so the two largest Hillsboro colocation operators compete for it.
Hillsboro 3 for density, an established hall for a standard enterprise deployment, or whichever building has your power on your date.
In a market at 0.21 percent vacancy, expansion rights matter more than the rate. We negotiate them up front.
The Pittock Block: Portland's Carrier Hotel
Downtown, the Pittock Block on SW Washington Street is Portland's main carrier hotel and home to the Portland NAP, where networks, content providers and large technology companies interconnect. It suits buyers whose priority is reaching many networks rather than large power footprints; most deployments that need space and power go to Hillsboro and connect back downtown.
Portland Colocation Pricing
CBRE put Hillsboro asking rents at $175 to $225 per kW per month at the end of 2025, and reported them unchanged in the first half of 2026 because so little space traded. That places Hillsboro alongside Northern Virginia and Chicago rather than among the cheaper markets. With almost nothing available, the terms around the rate, especially expansion rights, are often worth more than a few dollars per kW.
What drives the price
Size, density and building. Newer high-density halls and the downtown carrier hotel price differently, and cross-connects add up where the networks are.
What the rate leaves out
Cross-connects, remote hands, setup fees and power above the commitment. Compare five-year totals, not rates. See the colocation pricing guide.
How to get the market price
Put the same requirement in front of every qualifying operator at once. See the data center lease guide.
Power and the Hillsboro Moratorium
Hillsboro's supply is limited by power, land inside the urban growth boundary and, since 2026, local policy. Portland General Electric has announced $6.5 billion of clean energy and grid investment over five years, and Oregon's POWER Act created a separate customer class for data centers of 20 MW and up. The City of Hillsboro has also placed a 120-day moratorium, starting in mid-2026, on applications for new and expanded data centers. For colocation buyers, the effect is that existing, powered space in Hillsboro is scarcer than ever, and worth securing early.
Sources: CBRE Hillsboro market profile; Oregon news coverage of the moratorium.
AI and GPU Capacity in Oregon
Hillsboro already hosts AI deployments, including CoreWeave in Flexential's facilities, and newer halls such as Hillsboro 3 were built for high density. Access to renewable power and a mild climate suit efficient operation. The constraint is availability: at 0.21 percent vacancy, dense capacity on a near-term date is rare, so the search should start early and include alternatives.
Owning your GPU servers
Air-cooled GPU servers at 35 to 70 kW per rack fit more halls; rack-scale liquid-cooled systems need a facility built for them. See AI and GPU colocation.
Renting GPUs instead
GPU rental is not tied to a location, so the right provider may be anywhere. See GPU rental.
Multi-megawatt and neocloud capacity
Large requirements usually mean a prelease on a building under construction. See wholesale colocation.
Prineville Data Centers, The Dalles and Eastern Oregon
Outside Portland, Oregon's data centers are mostly hyperscale campuses built and run by the companies that use them, attracted by land, power and tax incentives.
Prineville data centers
Meta built its first company-owned data center in Prineville more than 15 years ago and has expanded it into a multi-building campus. Apple runs a campus nearby. Both sit in an enterprise zone, which abates property tax on new improvements for a period. Colocation in Central Oregon is limited to small local operators around Bend.
The Dalles data center
Google built Oregon's first data center in The Dalles in 2006 on the Columbia River, drawn by land, a temperate climate and renewable power, and has expanded it several times since.
Boardman and Hermiston
Morrow and Umatilla counties host large hyperscale campuses near the Columbia River. Like Prineville and The Dalles, they are built for single owners rather than colocation tenants.
Sources: KLCC; OPB on Prineville.
Building a Data Center in Oregon
Power and the POWER Act
Oregon's POWER Act created a separate utility customer class for data centers of 20 MW and up, so large new loads carry their own rates and commitments. A site's value rests on a written utility commitment with a date. See powered land.
Tax
Oregon has no sales tax, and data centers have used enterprise zone property tax abatements. Terms are negotiated locally and are under more scrutiny than they were, so confirm what applies to a specific site.
Local approvals
Hillsboro's moratorium on new data center applications shows how quickly local policy can change a site's timeline. Zoning and community engagement belong in the first year of any plan.
Site and power feasibility, market studies and acquisition due diligence for developers and investors in this market, in writing at a fixed fee agreed before work starts. See data center consulting and data center valuation.
Oregon vs Seattle, Quincy and Other Markets
With Hillsboro this tight, most Oregon searches should price at least one alternative.
| Market | How it compares with Oregon |
|---|---|
| Seattle colocation | The Pacific Northwest's other network hub, with downtown carrier hotels and suburban colocation. A natural pairing with Hillsboro for recovery or for a second West Coast site |
| Quincy, Washington | Central Washington's hyperscale cluster, built on low-cost hydro power; mostly single-owner campuses rather than colocation |
| Silicon Valley | Similarly tight, with higher seismic risk; Hillsboro is a common Bay Area alternative or recovery site. See San Francisco Bay Area colocation |
| Phoenix | A larger West Coast alternative inland, also tight and power-constrained. See Phoenix colocation |
| Dallas | A central market with more available capacity when the West Coast has none on your date. See Dallas colocation |
Send the requirement once and we price Hillsboro and the nearest alternatives side by side, Seattle, Phoenix, Silicon Valley or Dallas, so you can choose with every option in front of you. The operator you choose pays us, and you'll hear back within 24 hours.
How We Find Colocation Space in Oregon
You send the requirement
Cabinets or kilowatts, density, location, connectivity, compliance and the date. One email or one call.
Every qualifying operator quotes at once
Flexential, Digital Realty and other Hillsboro and Portland operators that fit receive the same requirement on the same day, with alternatives priced if Hillsboro is full.
We compare five-year totals
Rate, escalator, cross-connects, setup and remote hands, side by side, benchmarked against what comparable deployments pay.
We negotiate before you sign
Expansion rights, renewal caps and the terms that move the most money, while they are still negotiable. The operator you choose pays us. How a data center broker works.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where are Oregon's data centers?
In four clusters: Hillsboro and Portland, where nearly all colocation sits; Prineville in Central Oregon; The Dalles on the Columbia River; and Boardman and Hermiston in the northeast, where hyperscale campuses dominate.
How tight is the Hillsboro data center market?
Very. CBRE put Hillsboro vacancy at 0.21 percent in the first half of 2026, the lowest of any primary US market, across about 491 MW of inventory, and no facility had 5 MW of contiguous space available.
Who are the main colocation providers in Hillsboro and Portland?
Flexential, with five Hillsboro data centers and a sixth planned, and Digital Realty, with PDX10 to PDX12, are the largest colocation operators. QTS, NTT, Aligned and EdgeConneX run wholesale campuses, and the Pittock Block, H5 and T5 serve downtown and close-in Portland.
What is Flexential Hillsboro?
Flexential's Hillsboro campus is its largest cluster: Hillsboro 1 through 5 on NE Starr Boulevard and NE Huffman Street, from the 5.3 MW original building to the 358,000 square foot high-density Hillsboro 3, with Hillsboro 6 planned. Flexential is one of our channel partners, so we can quote it alongside Digital Realty at no cost to you.
How much does colocation cost in Portland and Hillsboro?
CBRE put Hillsboro asking rents at $175 to $225 per kW per month at the end of 2025, unchanged in the first half of 2026. Cross-connects, remote hands and setup fees add to the total.
What is the Pittock Block in Portland?
Portland's main downtown carrier hotel on SW Washington Street, home to the Portland NAP, where networks, content providers and large technology companies interconnect. Most power-heavy deployments go to Hillsboro and connect back to it.
Is there a data center moratorium in Hillsboro?
Yes. In mid-2026 the City of Hillsboro placed a 120-day moratorium on applications for new and expanded data centers. Existing facilities continue to operate, but it makes existing powered space even scarcer.
What is the Prineville data center campus?
Meta's campus, its first company-owned data center, built more than 15 years ago and since expanded to multiple buildings, and an Apple campus nearby. Both are hyperscale facilities for their owners rather than colocation.
What is The Dalles data center?
Google's campus, Oregon's first data center, opened in 2006 on the Columbia River and expanded several times since. It is a Google-owned facility rather than colocation.
Does Oregon offer tax incentives for data centers?
Oregon has no sales tax, and data centers have used enterprise zone property tax abatements on new improvements. Terms are set locally and face more scrutiny than before, so confirm what applies to a specific site.
What is Oregon's POWER Act?
A 2025 law that created a separate utility customer class for data centers of 20 MW and up, so large new loads carry their own rates and commitments rather than shifting costs to other customers.
Should I compare Oregon with Seattle colocation?
Usually, yes. Seattle is the Pacific Northwest's other network hub, and with Hillsboro at 0.21 percent vacancy, pricing Seattle, Quincy, Phoenix or Silicon Valley alongside is the fastest way to find space on your date.
Can Oregon data centers host AI and GPU hardware?
Yes. Hillsboro already hosts AI deployments, including CoreWeave in Flexential facilities, and newer halls were built for high density. Availability is the constraint, so start early and include alternatives.
Do you place colocation in Oregon?
Yes, across the Oregon operators that fit your requirement, including Flexential and Digital Realty through formal channel partnerships. Send the requirement and you'll hear back within 24 hours. The operator you choose pays us, so it costs you nothing.
Price Your Oregon Requirement
Send what you need: cabinets or kilowatts, density, location, connectivity and the date. You'll hear back within 24 hours with the Hillsboro and Portland facilities that fit, quoted at once and benchmarked against what comparable deployments pay, and the nearest alternatives if Oregon has nothing on your date.
That is what keeps every Oregon operator competing for your deployment. The operator you choose pays us, so it costs you nothing.
Other markets: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, Chicago, Ohio, Northern Virginia and New York.
Buyer guides: the provider comparison, the colocation pricing guide, data center site selection, the data center lease guide and data center tiers.
Cloud, AI and recovery: disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, AI and GPU colocation and wholesale colocation.
Building and investing: data center consulting, powered land, data center developers, data center valuation and how a data center broker works.
