How much does colocation cost in Hillsboro and Portland?
Recent quotes we received for Oregon & Washington ran $345 to $395 per kW per month for up to 500 kW, falling to $220 to $260 above 1 MW. CBRE's published asking band for Hillsboro, Oregon is $185 to $225 per kW per month for 250 to 500 kW.
| Deployment | Monthly rate | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 500 kW | $345 to $395/kW-mo | Our quotes |
| Over 500 kW to 1 MW | $280 to $320/kW-mo | Our quotes |
| Over 1 MW | $220 to $260/kW-mo | Our quotes |
| 250 to 500 kW, asking rent | $185 to $225/kW-mo | CBRE, North America Data Center Trends H1 2026, first half of 2026 |
Smaller deployments cost more per kW. These are recent quotes we received, not a statement that space is available. Cross-connects, remote hands and one-time setup are extra. Operators often give 2–3 free months on a new term. See every region's quote ranges.
Hillsboro and Portland cabinet and cage prices
Smaller deployments are priced per cabinet or per cage rather than per kW. Use these monthly ranges to set a first-pass budget. They are not provider offers, and a building on this page is not a claim that space is available in it.
| Requirement | Monthly range | Power and bandwidth assumed |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2U | $295 to $455/mo | 1 to 3 A at 120 V, 1 to 5 TB of transfer |
| Half cabinet, 24U | $1,185 to $1,445/mo | 2 to 3 kW, 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps |
| Full cabinet, 48U | $1,415 to $1,660/mo | 2 to 5 kW, 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps |
| High-density cabinet, 48U | $2,375 to $4,655/mo | 10 to 17 kW, three-phase |
| Private cage, 4 racks | $5,245 to $5,760/mo | 5 kW per rack, 1 Gbps |
| High-density private cage, 4 racks | $14,635 to $20,400/mo | 20 kW per rack, 1 Gbps |
Based on quotes we received in the 30 days before 21 October 2026. Taxes, cross-connects, remote hands and one-time costs are extra. Replace these ranges with a normalized written quote before approval. How power is billed is covered in how colocation power is billed.
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What providers in Hillsboro and Portland post as a list price
Most colocation in Hillsboro and Portland is quoted, not posted. The provider below is the exception: it publishes a monthly price on its own website, and every row links to that page. It is a smaller regional operator. The large operators here do not publish prices at all, so read these as a floor and a sanity check, not as what an enterprise contract lands at.
| Monthly | Provider | Offer | Power included | Per usable kW | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $791 | Sterling | Full cabinet, 44U. Tigard, Portland metro. $299 setup | One 1,800 W supply on UPS | Power not stated | 3,600 GB a month |
Each price was read on the provider's own page on the date shown. Usable kW is 80% of the circuit rating, with a redundant A+B pair counted once, and is only worked out where the provider states both amps and volts. "From" is the provider's own word for a starting price. Providers whose networks carry spam or abuse flags are left out whatever their price. A posted price is not availability, and bundles differ in bandwidth and power, so compare the whole row rather than the first column. How power is billed is covered in how colocation power is billed.
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Who is actually plugged in across Hillsboro and Portland
A building existing and a building being connected are different facts, and only one of them decides whether your traffic can get where it needs to go cheaply. These figures come from PeeringDB, which the network operators themselves maintain, so every row below links to the building's own public entry.
| Measure | Figure | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Buildings listed | 24 | Registered in PeeringDB across Hillsboro and Portland, by 15 operators |
| Buildings with a network present | 23 | 1 carries no network presence, which usually means single tenant or simply unregistered |
| Network presences | 203 | Counted per building, so a carrier in three buildings counts three times |
| Internet exchange presences | 15 | Where you can reach many networks through one port instead of many cross-connects |
| Carrier presences | 19 | The physical transport choice you can buy without leaving the building |
| In the densest building | 34% | PTOR1 holds 70 of the market's network presences |
The most connected buildings here
| Networks | Building | Operator | Exchanges | Carriers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 | PTOR1 | 1547 Critical Systems Realty | 2 | 3 |
| 25 | EdgeConneX Portland (EDCPOR01) | EdgeConneX Inc. | 2 | 2 |
| 23 | Flexential - Portland/Hillsboro 2 (PDX02) | Flexential Corp. | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | QTS Hillsboro (HIL1) | QTS Realty Trust, Inc. | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Flexential - Portland/Hillsboro (PDX01) | Flexential Corp. | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Stack Infrastructure Portland PORO2 | Stack Infrastructure | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | EdgeConneX Hillsboro (EDCPOR02) | EdgeConneX Inc. | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Digital Realty Portland - PDX10 | Digital Realty | 1 | 1 |
From PeeringDB, which is maintained by the network operators present in these buildings rather than by the landlords, which is what makes it worth more than a directory. Two limits. Entries are voluntary, so a building showing no networks may be single tenant or may simply never have registered. And a network being present says nothing about whether the building has space, power or a price for you: that is still a call.
Year-end 2025 market profileWhy Hillsboro punches above its size
Hillsboro is the western terminus for several transpacific subsea cable systems, which makes it structurally important to any architecture that moves traffic between North America and Asia. Add Oregon's lack of a sales tax on equipment, historically low industrial power rates, and a mild climate that supports economiser cooling, and the market attracts demand well beyond what its size suggests.
CBRE reported 475.4 MW of inventory at the end of 2025 with a vacancy rate of 0.2%, an all-time low, leaving roughly 1.0 MW available across the entire market.
475.4 MW
Total inventory at the end of 2025, the sixth-largest primary market.
0.2% vacancy
An all-time low, and the tightest of any primary market.
About 1.0 MW
Available capacity across the whole market.
No 5 MW block
CBRE reports no facility with 5 MW or more of contiguous space available.
Source: CBRE on Hillsboro and CBRE North America Data Center Trends H2 2025. Figures describe the metro market, not a specific facility.
One megawatt available in a 475 MW market is not a tight market. It is a closed one. Anything you are offered here is either a small block in an existing hall, space someone else has released, or a future phase. Establish which of the three before you spend time on it.
What is actually constraining supply
Three things, and none of them resolve quickly. Oregon's urban growth boundary limits where development can happen at all, which is unusual among US data center markets and puts a hard edge on land supply. Power transmission into Washington County is limited. And permitting and zoning timelines have lengthened.
Oregon's POWER Act adds a further consideration by establishing a separate data center customer class at a 20 MW threshold, which changes how large loads are treated by the utility. Any large requirement needs that modelled rather than assumed.
CBRE reported that capacity under construction in Hillsboro fell 15% in 2025 against 2024. Supply is not catching up in the near term.
What drives a Hillsboro quote
Most capacity here is committed on long terms to a few large tenants, so there is little spot pricing. The published band tells you less than usual about what a new requirement will pay.
- Existing or future. Assume nothing is free until an operator names a hall and a date. A phase that depends on transmission work runs on the utility's timeline.
- Utility class. Model the tariff separately, including Oregon's 20 MW data center customer class if you are near it.
- Renewal. In a market this tight, the renewal clause is the whole negotiation.
- Cooling. Check the economiser-led design against your rack density.
- Growth. With no 5 MW block free, expansion almost certainly means a second building.
When Hillsboro is the right answer
When the workload touches transpacific routing, needs Pacific Northwest presence, benefits from the equipment tax position, or pairs with a Californian primary site for regional resilience at a genuine distance. It is also credible for sustainability-led requirements given the regional hydro-heavy fuel mix.
It is the wrong answer when you need capacity soon and cannot wait for a phase. Compare with Silicon Valley when interconnection matters more than routing, and with Phoenix or Reno when the driver is western coverage at a deliverable date.
Treat Hillsboro as a market you queue for, not one you shop in. Get in front of operators before the requirement is urgent, and keep a second market live so a delivery date slipping does not become your problem.
What has been announced in Hillsboro and Portland
Announcements are not filings. Nobody has to build what they announce, the figure is the one the developer chose to publish, and the date moves. They are here because megawatts are what a requirement is measured in, and because the size of what is coming changes who will take your call. Every figure below links to a published report that states it, and was checked against at least one other independent report before it was written down.
| Capacity | Operator | Project | What was announced |
|---|---|---|---|
| 108 MW | Aligned Data Centers | PDX-01 and PDX-02, Hillsboro | 27 acres, first building 72 MW with 12 halls of 6 MW, second planned at 36 MW |
Announced capacity is collected by hand from trade reporting and company statements, and each figure links to the report it came from. It is never added to a permit count: a permit is a document a jurisdiction issued, an announcement is a plan a company published. Neither is availability.
Every Hillsboro and Portland facility we track
53 data centers across Hillsboro and Portland, from our verified inventory. It is the layer that says whether a building exists yet, which no permit record answers directly.
| Status | Facilities | What it means for a search |
|---|---|---|
| Operational | 24 | Standing and running. The only layer that can hold a requirement this year |
| Under construction | 8 | Steel is up. Reachable for a date 6 to 18 months out, and usually pre-leasing now |
| Planned | 21 | Announced or entitled, not yet built. Treat every date on these as a forecast |
| Building area on file | 7,482,914 SF | Across the 31 facilities where a size is recorded, of 53 |
| Largest single building | 648,000 SF | STACK Infrastructure, Hillsboro |
Operators with the most facilities here: STACK Infrastructure (11), QTS (7), Flexential (6), Digital Realty (5), EdgeConneX (4), NTT Global Data Centers (4), Digital Fortress (3), Aligned Data Centers (2), Crane Data Centers (2), Rowan Digital Infrastructure (2).
Where they cluster: Hillsboro (40), Portland (4), Forest Grove (3), Beaverton (2), Umatilla (2), Boardman (1).
The largest buildings coming to this market
29 facilities here are under construction or planned. These are the ten largest by floor area, and a size on file is not a promise of a delivery date.
| Operator | Status | Building size | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crane Data Centers | Planned | 363,000 SF | Forest Grove, OR |
| Flexential | Under Construction | 358,000 SF | Hillsboro, OR |
| Sabey Data Centers | Planned | 306,440 SF | Umatilla, OR |
| Crane Data Centers | Under Construction | 180,000 SF | Forest Grove, OR |
| STACK Infrastructure | Under Construction | 180,000 SF | Hillsboro, OR |
| STACK Infrastructure | Under Construction | 180,000 SF | Hillsboro, OR |
| EdgeConneX | Under Construction | 172,232 SF | Hillsboro, OR |
| STACK Infrastructure | Planned | 140,000 SF | Hillsboro, OR |
| Five 9s Digital | Planned | 84,610 SF | Hillsboro, OR |
| Aligned Data Centers | Under Construction | Not on file | Hillsboro, OR |
From our verified inventory rather than from a public record, so these rows carry no filing link and street addresses are held back. These buildings are verified, which is not the same as their space being available: every facility above may be full, pre-leased, or closed to your size. Finding out is a call, not a lookup. See what a verified building does and does not mean.