Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 5
4975 Northeast Starr Boulevard · Hillsboro, Washington County, OR
Source: OpenStreetMap
Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 5 is an operating data center in Washington County, OR, operated by Flexential Corp.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 180,357 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 12, 2026
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Overview
source: linkFlexential data center
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentFlexential Corp.
- Files asFlexential Corp.
- This facilityFlexential Portland - Hillsboro 5
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.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, West Union Elementary School in Hillsboro, is 1.6 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.