Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 4
4915 Northeast Starr Boulevard · Hillsboro, Washington County, OR
Source: OpenStreetMap
Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 4 is an operating data center in Washington County, OR, operated by Flexential Corp.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 97,536 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
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Overview
source: linkHillsboro 4 is an operating colocation data center in Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon, run by Flexential Corp. as part of its Flexential Portland campus. Public records put its footprint at 97,536 square feet. The site draws power from Portland General Electric Co within the PGE balancing authority.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentFlexential Corp.
- Files asFlexential Corp.
- This facilityFlexential Portland - Hillsboro 4
In the news
source: GDELT- Flexential Secures Strategic Real Estate Ownership in Hillsboro, Oregon, with Acquisition of Two Data Center Properties - Yahoo FinanceYahoo Finance· May 28, 2026
- News | Flexential buys data centers near Portland as it pivots ownership strategy - CoStarCoStar· May 28, 2026
- Flexential Secures Strategic Real Estate Ownership in Hillsboro, Oregon, with Acquisition of Two Data Center Properties - PR NewswirePR Newswire· May 28, 2026
- Flexential: Strategic Acquisition Of Hillsboro Data Center Properties Expands Long-Term Control In Oregon Market - Pulse 2.0Pulse 2.0· May 28, 2026
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.
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
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.
Water use
No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir 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 2023Demographics 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 / NCESThe nearest public school, West Union Elementary School in Hillsboro, is 1.7 mi from this site (312 students).
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.