Pacific Northwest Data Center News

Facebook boosts capacity with multi-storey data center design

Following the trend of building taller buildings, Facebook has revealed that it is boosting its capacity with a new multi-storey data center design as part of its global infrastructure expansion. The design is being rolled out in its Prineville, Oregon campus, deployed in two new facilities.Th...

May 25, 2021

Facebook Prineville

Quintillion connects Polar Orbiting Satellites to Equinix SE2

Quintillion has announced plans to connect its new Arctic ground station to Equinix’s Seattle data center. It will extend its network via a subsea fiber network, where, in Seattle, it will connect to Equinix Fabric, a software-defined interconnection service. Located 72 degrees north, at Utqi...

April 26, 2021

Equinix Seattle SE2

Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington

Microsoft has purchased 170 acres of underdeveloped land north of Pangborn Memorial Airport for $19.3 million. The investment could well rise to over $1 billion in the next five years to build a multi-phase data center. Microsoft has also started leveling the construction site in preparation f...

March 29, 2021

Microsoft East Wenatchee

1547 acquires the Pittock Block in Portland

1547 Critical Systems Realty has acquired the Pittock Block, a Portland carrier hotel from the Alco Investment Company. Don't call it a trend, but 1547 has targeted a couple of acquisitions that focus on carrier dense data centers. Last September 1547 acquired a Milwaukee carrier hotel, the We...

January 05, 2021

Pittock Internet Exchange

Facebook announces ninth data center in Prineville

Facebook has announced their ninth data center on the Prineville, Oregon campus. The building will be 450,000 sqft and be completed in 2023. Rendering of the 9th data center accompanied the announcement

June 11, 2020

Facebook Prineville

Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus

Sabey announced that it has added a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute node to its Intergate.Quincy data center campus in central Washington, enabling Sabey’s customers to create private connections between their IT environment and Microsoft Azure and Office 365.Sabey Press Release on May 21st 2020

May 21, 2020

Sabey Intergate.Quincy

Flexential Announces it's third Facility in Portland

Flexential has announced it will build its largest data center yet in Portland metro. The facility will be 358,000 square feet, offering 36 megawatts of power on a 20-acre lot. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the summer of 2020. This new data center will connect to Flexential’s Portland-Hills...

May 07, 2020

Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 3

QTS Pre-leases 100% of Its Initial Development in Hillsboro OR

QTS has signed an anchor tenant for it's new Hillsboro campus. QTS has pre-leased the entire first phase (4.5 MW) to a global software-as-a-service provider. The Company expects to complete the first phase of development in Hillsboro by mid-2020 with additional power capacity available for cus...

February 18, 2020

QTS Hillsboro 1

Digital Realty gains control of Seattle's Carrier Hotel, the Westin Building

Digital Realty will gain control of Seattle's Carrier Hotel, the Westin Building. Digital announced it will acquire an additional 49% stake in the Westin Building Exchange from Clise Properties. Digital already had a 49% stake in the project which it acquired in 2006. For more info please ref...

February 12, 2020

Westin Building Seattle

NTT Ltd. to Expand U.S. Data Center Footprint to Hillsboro, Oregon

NTT (formerly RagingWire) is building a new data center campus in Hillsboro, outside of Portland. Quick Facts: The first 6 MW will be available in mid-2020 and the 47-acre campus can be expanded to support five buildings with 144 MW and about 1 million square feet. RagingWire acquired the bui...

February 05, 2020

NTT Hilsboro HI1

Microsoft buys Redmond Ridge data center property for $6.2 Million

The Puget Sound Business Journal Reports that Microsoft has acquired the property that holds its Redmond Ridge data center and offices. The report is below. Microsoft paid nearly $6.2 million to acquire the site of the company's data center in Redmond, King County property records show.The Red...

June 04, 2019

Microsoft Redmond Ridge

Hawaiki Cable Extends Network from Hillsboro to Westin Building in Seattle

Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP has extended its US presence from Hillsboro, OR to the Westin Building Exchange (WBX) carrier hotel and data center in Seattle, WA to support its clients’ capacity requirements between New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Launched in July 2018, the Hawa...

April 15, 2019

Westin Building Seattle

ScaleMatrix Open Its First Data Center in Seattle

ScaleMatrix has opened its newest data center, operated by Centeris, in the southern part of metro Seattle. The new facility is ScaleMatrix’s first expansion in the Pacific Northwest and will provide a plethora of services for potential enterprise clients. The New ScaleMatrix Sit...

March 08, 2019

ScaleMatrix Seattle

GI Partners Announces Data Center Acquisitions From NTT DATA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – GI Partners, a leading private investment firm, continues its strategy of investing in the infrastructure of technology with the recent acquisition of two technology intensive properties from NTT DATA located in Plano, Texas and Quincy, Washington. The Plano property is an ...

January 29, 2019

NTT Data Quincy

Flexential Completes $32M Portland Data Center Expansion, Adds 115,000 Sq. Ft.

Flexential, formerly known as Peak 10 + ViaWest, has completed a $32 million expansion of its data center at 5737 NE Huffman Street outside of Portland, Oregon. This Portland data center houses the U.S. cable landing station for the Hawaiki submarine cable, which delivers “low-latency” connection...

November 11, 2018

Flexential Hillsboro 2

Facebook and First Solar plan a 58 MW solar project for Prineville Oregon data center

Story originally appeared on Solar Power WorldA solar power plant developed and to be built by First Solar will help support Facebook’s Prineville, Oregon, data center with 100% renewable energy. Through a power purchase agreement (PPA) with PacifiCorp, the 58-MWac Cove Mountain Solar Project ...

October 23, 2018

Facebook Prineville

Facebook expand Prineville, Oregon data center for $750m

Social network and advertising giant Facebook plans to add another two buildings to its data center campus in Crook County, Oregon, by mid-2020. The $750 million investment will bring the company's total footprint at the site to more than 3.2 million square feet (300,000 sq m), making it Faceb...

October 02, 2018

Facebook Prineville

Sabey Data Centers to add 14MW in Washington

Intergate.Columbia is adding another data center building. Seattle-based wholesale colocation provider Sabey Data Centers has started work on a new facility at its Intergate.Columbia campus in East Wenatchee, Washington. Building D will span 140,000 square feet (13,000 sq m) across four ...

August 22, 2018

Sabey Intergate.Columbia

Facebook Migrates to Solar Energy for Oregon Data Centers

Facebook and Pacific Power said they are joining up to construct solar projects that will generate energy to offset what Facebook uses at its data centers in Prineville, Oregon. The solar projects, two near Prineville and four in Utah, expect to produce 437 megawatts of power when finished by...

July 19, 2018

Facebook Prineville

H5 Data Centers Announces Acquisition of Intuit Inc. Data Center

H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired from Intuit Inc. a 240,000 square-foot, purpose-built data center in Quincy, Washington. The acquisition expands H5 Data Centers’ national portfolio to 12 data centers and compliments its 30...

July 18, 2018

H5 Quincy

Data Center News

Ready to Level up Your Data Center Strategy?

Ready to Level up Your
Data Center Strategy?