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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...
Verrus Proposes Oakline Data Center Campus in Salem’s Mill Creek Corporate Center
Verrus is pitching a three-building data center campus for a Heritage Oak-studded corner of Salem’s Mill Creek Corporate Center, betting that a battery-backed,...
New York Clears First-in-Nation Data Center Moratorium, and the West Coast Is Watching
New York lawmakers have approved a one-year freeze on state permits for large data centers, the first statewide moratorium in the country and...
Pacific Northwest Power Grid Hurtles Toward 9 GW Shortfall by 2030 as Load Growth Outpaces New Builds
E3 study commissioned by 22 regional utilities warns that data centers, electrification and coal retirements are colliding with institutional barriers that have stalled...
Equinix Rides AI Inference Wave to Record Q1 Sales as West Coast Capacity Tightens
The Redwood City data center giant booked its largest sales quarter ever as agentic AI workloads push enterprises off the public cloud and...
Portland Office Market Stabilizes at 15.2% Vacancy With 217,000 SQFT Absorption in Q1 2026
Leasing slows but investment activity rises more than 70% year-over-year as tenants begin to re-engage in smaller, high-quality spaces Portland’s office market entered...
Portland General Electric Acquires 127,418 SQFT at Mohawk Business Park in Tualatin for $14.5MM
Oregon’s largest utility purchases a portion of the suburban office campus at roughly $114 per square foot as the Tualatin submarket posts a...
Amazon Wins $83MM Bid for Oregon’s Massive Sunstone Solar Project
Tech giant outbids Puget Sound Energy for 1,200-megawatt facility to power expanding data center operations Amazon is moving to secure its energy future...
The Northwest’s $700MM Dilemma: How Oregon and Washington Are Fighting the Bonneville Power Administration—and Each Other—for Control of Their Energy Future
New legislation promises billions in savings and cleaner power across the West—if regional tensions can be resolved When California Governor Gavin Newsom signed...
Flexential Acquires Property in Hillsboro for New 350,000 SQFT Data Center as Next Phase of Expansion
Hillsboro 6 to enable 27 MW of new capacity in one of the nation’s most coveted markets for digital infrastructure DENVER, CO. —...
ProPublica: Liberal Oregon and Washington Vowed to Pioneer Green Energy. Almost Every Other State Is Beating Them.
by Tony Schick and Monica Samayoa, Oregon Public Broadcasting ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter...
Daimler Truck Invests in $40MM into 110,000 SQFT Clean Transportation Hub in Portland, Ore.
PORTLAND, Ore. (May 10, 2024) – Daimler Truck North America LLC (DTNA) today announced two significant investments at its headquarters complex on Swan Island, a...
