data centers
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...
Microsoft Stretches Data Center, Office Building Depreciation to 25 Years, Reshaping $175B CapEx Plan
The software giant told analysts on its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call that lengthening the accounting life of its global data centers and offices...
Hillsboro Becomes First Oregon City to Enact Data Center Land Use Moratorium
Hillsboro has become the first city in Oregon to halt new data center and battery energy storage system development through a land use...
Wells Fargo Sees Rates Higher for Longer as AI Data Centers Anchor Commercial Construction
Wells Fargo's latest U.S. outlook warns that stubborn inflation and a more hawkish Federal Reserve will keep borrowing costs elevated into 2027, sustaining...
Prologis Data Center Starts Reach $2.1 Billion as Power Pipeline Climbs to 5.8 Gigawatts
Prologis is rapidly scaling two businesses born from its logistics platform — data centers and energy — with data center development already exceeding...
BSI Brief Warns Puget Sound’s Tightening EHS and Climate Rules Are Redrawing the Cost of Operating Across Four Key Sectors
A new BSI executive brief argues that the greater Seattle region’s overlapping environmental, workforce and climate regulations have raised the operational bar for...
Wells Fargo: Fed Poised for Extended Hold as Warsh Era Opens Amid Sticky Inflation
Wells Fargo economists expect the Federal Reserve to sit on the sidelines for an extended period as new Chair Kevin Warsh takes the...
Seattle Halts New Large Data Centers With Emergency One-Year Moratorium After 369-Megawatt Wave of Proposals
The Seattle City Council voted unanimously on June 9 to freeze the siting of large data centers for one year, becoming the largest...
