Data Center Record.

Running Built from one source

Digital Realty Hillsboro

Digital Realty lists 3 data centers at Hillsboro, Oregon among the sites it operates. It is running; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 4 sources, 4 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.

What is known

Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.

Land
Not disclosed
Power it would draw
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Who leads it
Digital Realty
as stated by the source
Who would use it
Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs
Not disclosed
Tax each year
Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
How much power it needs Not disclosed
How much water it would use Not disclosed
How loud it would be Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs Not disclosed
Tax it would pay each year Not disclosed

The record's fields

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Digital Realty as stated by the source September 17, 2026
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land Not disclosed
Where its power comes from Not disclosed
Grid connection Not disclosed
How it is cooled Not disclosed

The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.

Still not public, and where it would show up

The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.

  • Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
  • Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
  • Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
  • Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What was decided

Acts of Washington County and Hillsboro about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

DateWhoDecisionSource
Hillsboro restrictive Hillsboro enacted a 120 day moratorium on new data center and battery storage applications in late July 2026 kptv.com
Hillsboro restrictive Hillsboro City Council enacted a 120 day moratorium on new data center developments. kptv.com
Hillsboro restrictive Hillsboro pushing back against data center expansion katu.com
Hillsboro restrictive Hillsboro put 120 day moratorium on data center projects at end of July 2026 datacenterdynamics.com
Washington County Washington County Commissioner Nafisa Fai announced her intention to bring forward a proposal that would temporarily pause new data center and AI computing facility development and permitting countywide katu.com
Hillsboro restrictive Hillsboro's 120 day moratorium on data centers went into effect katu.com
5 earlier decisions on the county's rows
DateWhoDecisionSource
Hillsboro restrictive Hillsboro City Council unanimously approved a 120 day moratorium on new data center and battery energy storage system proposals, effective July 27, 2026, through at least November 24, 2026. hillsboronewstimes.com
Hillsboro restrictive Hillsboro City Council adopted a 120 day moratorium on accepting new data center applications katu.com
Hillsboro restrictive Hillsboro City Council unanimously adopted 120 day moratorium on data center and battery energy storage land use applications on July 28 2026 opb.org
Hillsboro restrictive Hillsboro, Oregon also approved its own pause at a last minute July 27 meeting yahoo.com
Hillsboro restrictive A legal challenge has been filed to stop Hillsboro, Oregon data center deals hillsboroherald.com

What happened

  1. · Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Digital Realty lists Digital Realty PDX10, Digital Realty PDX12, Digital Realty Portland at Hillsboro, Oregon on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]

The full Digital Realty Hillsboro timeline, in order

The site

Where in Hillsboro is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Hillsboro, not a building, and the outline is Washington County.

  • This record: Running, ringed
  • data center
  • Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
  • Smaller pins: 13 other published records in Oregon
Details
  • this record's location, ringed
  • parcel outline, from the county parcel record
  • city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
  • county boundary

The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.

Where
Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon
How exactly it is located
Town level, the center of the city
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.

Questions about this project

4 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

Who is building Digital Realty Hillsboro?

Digital Realty is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

How much power and water does Digital Realty Hillsboro say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Digital Realty Hillsboro stand today?

It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, read on September 14, 2026: Digital Realty lists Digital Realty PDX10, Digital Realty PDX12, Digital Realty Portland at Hillsboro, Oregon on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]

What has Hillsboro or Washington County decided about it?

Hillsboro (rated restrictive): Hillsboro enacted a 120 day moratorium on new data center and battery storage applications in late July 2026 (reported September 15, 2026, source); and Hillsboro: Hillsboro City Council enacted a 120 day moratorium on new data center developments. (reported September 14, 2026, source). 11 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. Digital Realty: Americas data centers, Digital Realty, September 14, 2026
  2. Digital Realty: Digital Realty PDX10, Digital Realty, September 14, 2026
  3. Digital Realty: Digital Realty PDX12, Digital Realty, September 14, 2026
  4. Digital Realty: Digital Realty Portland, Digital Realty, September 14, 2026

4 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Digital Realty Hillsboro", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/digital-realty-hillsboro-or, last verified September 17, 2026.

Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page.

Cite this page

Data Center Record, "Digital Realty Hillsboro", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/digital-realty-hillsboro-or. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.

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For researchers
Slug
digital-realty-hillsboro-or
Status value
operational
Stage
Running
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/or/washington-county/hillsboro
Coordinates
45.5279515, -122.9364546
Location precision
city
Location source
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
Coordinate source
tigerweb city centroid
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 14, 2026
EPA registry id
Not disclosed
Use type values
not_disclosed
Tenancy value
not_disclosed
Cooling type value
not_disclosed
Capacity basis
not_disclosed
Water basis
not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
Acreage basis
Not disclosed
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows
Restrictive
Published
2026-09-14
Last verified
2026-09-17