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Digital Realty Hillsboro

Washington County, OR

Digital Realty Hillsboro is a mapped data center in Washington County, OR, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 220 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Operator
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Power
220 MW
Utility
Portland General Electric Co
Grid
PGE
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprovenance JSON
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

Digital Realty Hillsboro is a colocation data center in Washington County, Oregon, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Running since 2015, the site carries a reported power capacity of 220 MW and draws electricity from Portland General Electric Co, within the PGE balancing authority. The location has been mapped by DataCentersExposed.

Operator chain

In the news

source: GDELT

Data-center discussions in Washington County

source: LocalView (CC0)

Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.

Hillsboro School Board
Jan 10, 2023 · 2 data-center mentions
Hillsboro School Board
Aug 8, 2023 · 1 data-center mention
Hillsboro School Board
May 24, 2022 · 1 data-center mention

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2014 · term yr · source
Statewide cost of this incentive

Oregon reported $26.9M in Enterprise Zone (Long-Term Rural EZ, ORS 285C.400) property-tax abatement — Crook County (Meta Prineville campus) for FY2025 (Crook County, Oregon (audited financial statements / GASB 77 note)). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Oregon subsidies →

Water use

Modeled estimate~3.2M gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~1.3M gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~1.9M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 220 MW (disclosed IT power): 1.2 L/kWh cooling (cool climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
13
PM2.5
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Hillsboro), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$100.1K
People of color
37%
Below poverty
5%
Tract population
2,250

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Oregon Virtual Education (orved) in Hillsboro, is 0.6 mi from this site.

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.