Westin Building
2001 6th Avenue · Seattle, King County, WA
Source: OpenStreetMap
Westin Building is an operating data center in King County, WA, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 13,117 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
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Overview
source: linkThe Westin Building is an operating colocation data center in Seattle, King County, Washington, run by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Its reported footprint is 13,117 square feet. The site draws power from the City of Seattle utility inside the SCL balancing authority.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentDigital Realty Trust, Inc.
- Files asDigital Realty Trust, Inc.
- This facilityWestin Building
In the news
source: Google News- 3 ways to play the data center land grabMSN· Jun 13, 2026
- Seattle City Council adopts 1-year ban on new data centersThe Business Journals· Jun 10, 2026
- Does Digital Realty’s Malaysia AI Push and ESG Vote Shift the Core Thesis for DLR?Yahoo Finance· Jun 9, 2026
- Texas developer outlines plan for data center campus in De Soto near PanasonicThe Business Journals· Jun 5, 2026
- Data center operator reveals plans for downtown Seattle facility as city weighs one-year banGeekWire· Jun 4, 2026
- Former Bed Bath & Beyond in downtown Seattle eyed for data centerThe Business Journals· Jun 3, 2026
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77These 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.
- Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
- Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
- Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
- Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0State of Texas · granted 2014 · term — yr · source
Washington reported $100.1M in Data center equipment and infrastructure sales/use tax exemption — rural counties (RCW 82.08.986 / 82.12.986) for FY2024 (Washington State Department of Revenue). 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 (Seattle-Bellevue-Kent Valley), 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, Private School Services in Seattle, is 0.4 mi from this site (181 students). 2 public schools sit within a mile of the 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.