data centers
Lennar Warns Data-Center Boom and Immigration Crackdowns Are Squeezing Construction Labor
Lennar flagged tightening construction labor from data-center building and immigration enforcement in its fiscal third quarter, even as record cycle times and falling...
UCLA Flags Debt Risk Hanging Over the Pacific Northwest’s Data-Center Boom
A September 2026 UCLA Economic Letter warns that the debt financing the AI data-center surge, the same surge that has turned eastern Oregon...
Operating Seattle and Portland’s Buildings Fuels a $18.7BN Economic Engine, BOMA Study Finds
A new economic-impact study from BOMA International sizes the Pacific Northwest's building-operations economy, finding that metro Seattle and Portland together sustain more than...
Seattle Construction Costs Trail National Pace as Q2 Costs Rise 3.48%
Seattle’s non-residential construction costs kept climbing in the second quarter of 2026, but at a pace that continues to lag the rest of...
Portland Construction Costs Keep Climbing as Building Employment Falls 8%
Portland’s non-residential builders are paying more for labor and materials even as the workforce doing that building shrinks, a divergence that Mortenson Construction’s...
Washington Ends Data Center Equipment Tax Break as Hardware Nears 93% of Capex
Senate Bill 6231 stripped the sales tax exemption from data center equipment repair and replacement statewide on July 1, landing squarely on the...
Oregon Lands on Battery Storage’s Map as Washington Towns Move to Block Grid-Scale Sites
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence named Oregon among the states driving pipeline growth in the largest battery storage quarter the country has ever recorded, even...
Pacific Northwest Data Centers Hit Near-Zero Vacancy as CBRE Reports Record 1.4% Demand in H1 2026
A CBRE webinar previewing the firm's North America Data Center Trends report for the first half of 2026 laid out an unprecedented supply...
Starcloud Raises $250MM, Moves Into 100,000 SQFT Woodinville Plant
A two-year-old satellite startup is about to more than double its valuation and its factory footprint in the same month, landing in an...
Clackamas County Advances Data Center Moratorium, Pausing New Applications for Up to 120 Days
Clackamas County commissioners have set in motion a temporary ban on new data centers, overriding a staff recommendation to wait for the Legislature...
Pacific Northwest Holds Top-Tier Data Center Rank as AI Boom Races to Frontier Markets
The Pacific Northwest remains one of North America's ten largest data center markets with 4,170 megawatts of capacity, but JLL's Midyear 2026 report...
EDP Renewables Advances $1B Big River Wind-Solar-Storage Project in Oregon’s Gilliam County
EDP Renewables North America has proposed a roughly $1 billion, nearly 30,000-acre Big River wind, solar and battery storage project in Gilliam County...
