2
new Hillsboro data center sites with planning cases filed in Q3, both on July 21 and both on land held by Digital Realty entities. The wider metro count remains unknown.
144 MW
of proposed capacity for Digital Realty’s Corny campus, in an October 6 state application filed after the quarter closed.
120 days
in the application moratorium adopted on July 27. Applications already submitted may continue through review.
An October 6 state application puts Digital Realty’s Corny campus at 144 MW, and both Hillsboro data center cases filed on July 21 sit on land Digital Realty entities bought in the months before.
Operating facilities on the map (24)
The small hollow grey dots are data centers operating today, from the public PeeringDB facility list, each linked to its PeeringDB record. An operating building is context for the filings and is in no count on this page.
| Operator | Facility | City | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1547 Critical Systems Realty | PTOR1 | Portland | peeringdb.com/fac/275 |
| Digital Fortress | Digital Fortress (PTL) | Portland | peeringdb.com/fac/1020 |
| Digital Fortress | Digital Fortress (PTL2) | Beaverton | peeringdb.com/fac/3868 |
| Digital Fortress | Digital Fortress (PTL3) | Beaverton | peeringdb.com/fac/13021 |
| Digital Realty | Digital Realty Portland - PDX10 | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/3300 |
| EdgeConneX Inc. | EdgeConneX Hillsboro (EDCPOR02) | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/7566 |
| EdgeConneX Inc. | EdgeConneX Portland (EDCPOR01) | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/1922 |
| FIBERFI | Corepacket PDX-1 | Portland | peeringdb.com/fac/8577 |
| Flexential Corp. | Flexential - Portland/Hillsboro (PDX01) | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/2444 |
| Flexential Corp. | Flexential - Portland/Hillsboro 2 (PDX02) | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/2447 |
| Flexential Corp. | Flexential - Portland/Hillsboro 3 (PDX03) | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/13390 |
| Flexential Corp. | Flexential - Portland/Hillsboro 4 (PDX04) | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/13391 |
| H5 Data Centers | H5 Data Centers Portland (OR01) | Portland | peeringdb.com/fac/3920 |
| LightPoint Corporation | LightPoint Corporation | Portland | peeringdb.com/fac/1751 |
| Lumen Technologies Inc | Lumen Portland | Portland | peeringdb.com/fac/13512 |
| Opus Interactive, Inc. | Opus Interactive Hillsboro (HIO01) | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/3862 |
| Opus Interactive, Inc. | Opus Interactive Portland (PDX01) | Portland | peeringdb.com/fac/3861 |
| QTS Realty Trust, Inc. | QTS Hillsboro (HIL1) | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/7872 |
| RagingWire Data Centers - NTT | RagingWire HI1 - NTT | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/12159 |
| Stack Infrastructure | Stack Infrastructure Portland PORO2 | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/2418 |
| T5 Data Centers | T5@Portland | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/11928 |
| Ziply Fiber | BVTNORXB - Beaverton Central Office | Beaverton | peeringdb.com/fac/14266 |
| Ziply Fiber | HLBOORXH - Hawthorne Central Office | Hillsboro | peeringdb.com/fac/14265 |
| Ziply Fiber | SMRWORXA - Somerset West Central Office | Portland | peeringdb.com/fac/14264 |
Digital Realty’s October filing puts Corny at 144 MW
Digital Beaver 4 LLC’s application to the Oregon Department of State Lands, received October 6, 2026, after the quarter closed, puts the Corny campus at 144 MW of proposed capacity in two two-story buildings for hyperscale and colocation tenants. It requires a site within 5 kilometers of the applicant’s existing Digital Realty data centers, calls for about 371,000 square feet of data center building space without saying whether that is floor area or footprint, and projects 186 full-time jobs. Its signed city planning affidavit names the July case. The state record shows the application awaiting fees, with no permit, utility commitment or opening date. Application, pages 2, 5, 9 and 17.
What happened this quarter
Digital Realty is behind both July 21 applications
Two Hillsboro data center planning cases were filed on July 21, 2026. Corny and Wagon each seek Development Review II approval for a data center and associated improvements with a 10% height adjustment, and both remain In Review with no building permit issued. Digital Realty entities bought the land in the months before filing. Digital Beaver 4 LLC paid $50 million for Corny’s 28.95 acres in March 2026, while Digital Beaver 2 LLC and Digital Beaver 3 LLC, both on Digital Realty’s 2025 subsidiary list, bought Wagon’s 19.81 acres in December and January for $23.6 million and $8.5 million.
Both applications drew incomplete prescreen reviews
Corny’s September 9 workflow entry lists a missing transportation impact analysis, Site Activity Statement and noise study. Wagon’s August 10 entry also records an incomplete prescreen, although its letter is not shown in the public view of the record. Neither record shows whether later submissions resolved the issues.
The application window closed six days later
The council adopted a 120-day moratorium on July 27, 2026. The city notice of Resolution 2932 says it covers new and expanded data centers and battery energy storage systems as primary uses, while applications submitted earlier may continue. That keeps both July 21 filings in review, though it does not guarantee either an approval. The notice also points to a separate state pause on Enterprise Zone tax agreements for data centers. Across the Columbia River, Skamania County commissioners unanimously adopted a moratorium on all data centers on August 18, the Columbia Gorge News reported.
Permanent rules moved from the Planning Commission to the council
After an August 12 work session and an August 26 hearing, the Planning Commission approved the first phase of data and energy storage code changes at a public hearing on September 9. That phase defines the uses, sets the zones where they are allowed, limited or prohibited, and adds school buffers and limits on accessory data centers. At the October 6 first reading, councilors advanced the ordinance after removing a provision that would have let businesses move accessory data center space to an affiliated property and making a 1,000-foot school buffer temporary, the Hillsboro News-Times reported. Design and development standards follow in a second phase in winter and spring 2027.
The quarter’s filings
| Site | Filed | Square feet | Proposed capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corny Data Center Hillsboro · 2 buildings* | 2026-07-21 | ~371,000 SF* | 144 MW* |
| Wagon Data Center Hillsboro | 2026-07-21 | TBA | TBA |
| 2 sites | Q3 2026 | ~371,000 SF* 1 of 2 sites | 144 MW* 1 of 2 sites |
* Corny Data Center: October 6, 2026 filing, after quarter-end. Applicant-stated building space and proposed capacity. Gross floor area versus footprint is not specified.
TBA marks a figure the record does not state yet. Unknown sizes and capacity are not summed as zero.
Portland metro: seven quarters of public-record activity
Q3 2026 brought the Corny and Wagon planning applications, a Flexential data hall fit-out and Suntech’s conversion to primary data center use in Hillsboro, plus a Portland data-hall alteration and early assistance for a five-floor office conversion. Earlier quarters include Hillsboro campus work, Forest Grove’s Crane permit issuance and a Gresham conversion. The table gives the stage and date in each public record. Portland-area totals remain unknown.
Dated records by quarter, Q1 2025 through Q3 2026 (record types searched differ by quarter)
| Quarter | New-site planning applications identified | Construction, conversions and other milestones |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | Metro total unresolved. | Hillsboro, Washington County · Construction application 2025-02-19 · ELE25-00210 STACK POR03D: electrical build-out of halls 270/280. Project name specifies 12 MW. Hillsboro, Washington County · Construction application 2025-03-11 · STR25-00095 Flexential Hillsboro 5: existing-building fit-out to include a data hall, chillers, generators and power modules. Added MW unstated. |
| Q2 2025 | Metro total unresolved. | Hillsboro, Washington County · Construction application 2025-04-28 · ELE25-00534 STACK POR03C: electrical build-out of halls 150/160. Project name specifies 12 MW. Forest Grove, Washington County · Permit issued. Application filed in 2024 2025-04-29 · 311-24-000801-STR Crane Building 1A: 87,887 sq ft. Issued April 29 following its November 2024 application. Hillsboro, Washington County · Construction application 2025-05-16 · STR25-00261 NTT HI3 phase 3: two-story data-center addition, with a $230 million phase valuation. Added MW unstated. |
| Q3 2025 | Walker Road · Hillsboro 2025-08-29 · DR-032-25 Data center and PGE substation on about 18.92 acres. | Oregon DEQ, Hillsboro · State air permit application 2025-09-23 · 34-0188-NC-01 OVHcloud: four more 2 MW backup generators. Backup power, not IT load. |
| Q4 2025 | Metro total unresolved. | Hillsboro, Washington County · Construction application 2025-12-09 · STR25-00582 Aligned PDX01: four data halls and added generators. Added MW unstated. Hillsboro, Washington County · Construction application 2025-12-12 · STR25-00591 Digital Realty PDX10: 36,356-sq-ft, two-story addition. Related STR25-00592 covers interior data halls. Added MW unstated. |
| Q1 2026 | Metro total unresolved. | Gresham, Multnomah County · Commercial conversion application 2026-02-20 · BLDC-26-00779 150 NW 20th: office-to-data-center conversion. Narrative: about 2,200 sq ft. Permit field: 2,092 sq ft. Issued April 16. Added MW unstated. |
| Q2 2026 | CoreSite · Hillsboro 2026-04-07 · DR-012-26 Two data center facilities on about 19.73 acres. | None in the records searched. |
| Q3 2026 | Corny · Hillsboro 2026-07-21 · DR26-0031 Data center and associated improvements, 10% height adjustment. Wagon · Hillsboro 2026-07-21 · DR26-0030 Data center and associated improvements, 10% height adjustment. | Portland, Multnomah County · Design review 2026-07-16 · 2026-052953-000-00-LU 1225 W Burnside: four new rooftop generators and two cooler towers. Portland, Multnomah County · Commercial alteration application 2026-07-30 · 2026-056483-000-00-CO 1225 W Burnside: reconfiguration of two existing data-hall floors. Added MW unstated. Hillsboro, Washington County · Construction application 2026-08-05 · STR26-0519 Flexential H5 Data Hall 2: fit-out of a data hall in the existing building. Added MW unstated. Portland, Multnomah County · Early assistance 2026-09-10 · 2026-067067-000-00-EA 707 SW Washington: early assistance for converting five office floors to colocation. Construction approval unestablished. Hillsboro, Washington County · Commercial conversion application 2026-09-23 · STR26-0616 Suntech Corporate Park Building II: remodel making data center the building’s primary use. Added MW unstated. |
Metro totals remain unresolved.
Hillsboro planning series and comparison method
| Quarter | Hillsboro new-site planning applications | Sites and filing dates |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 0 | None identified |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | None identified |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | Walker Road 2025-08-29 · DR-032-25 Data center and PGE substation on about 18.92 acres. |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | None identified |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | None identified |
| Q2 2026 | 1 | CoreSite 2026-04-07 · DR-012-26 Two data center facilities on about 19.73 acres. |
| Q3 2026 | 2 | Corny 2026-07-21 · DR26-0031 Data center and associated improvements, 10% height adjustment. Wagon 2026-07-21 · DR26-0030 Data center and associated improvements, 10% height adjustment. |
Hillsboro figures describe distinct new-site proposals by original application date in the same public planning register. Zero means none identified there. Existing-campus revisions and construction permits are separate. Other authorities remain incomplete.
What to watch next
- October 20, 2026. The council holds the second reading of the first-phase code amendments, with public comment accepted. Published record.
- November 24, 2026. The 120-day moratorium ends. The city says the council could extend it for an additional six months. Published record.
- Winter and spring 2027. The second phase of the code update takes up development and design standards. Published record.
The records behind the findings
The quarter’s filings, in detail (2)
Corny Data Center
- Location and parcels
- Hillsboro, Washington County. Parcel 1N226D000200.
- Owner or operator
- Digital Beaver 4 LLC. The October state application narrative and city support letter identify the proposal with Digital Realty.
- Proposed work
- Data center and associated improvements, with a 10% height adjustment.
- Size and power
- Approximately 371,000 square feet of data center building space in the applicant site criteria, page 9. Gross floor area versus footprint is not specified. State application, after quarter-end. 28.95 acres in the county assessment record. 144 MW proposed in the 2026-10-06 state application, after quarter-end. State application.
- Estimated cost, as filed
- TBA. The record states no construction cost.
- Application
- Development Review II, filed 2026-07-21. DR26-0031. Application-date record.
- Status
- In Review. No building permit issuance established by this planning record.
Wagon Data Center
- Location and parcels
- NE Croeni Avenue and NE Five Oaks Drive parcels, Hillsboro. Parcels 1N2230003700, 1N223BC00100, 1N223BC00200, 1N223BC00300.
- Owner or operator
- Digital Beaver 2 LLC (three parcels) and Digital Beaver 3 LLC (5450 NE Croeni Avenue). Both appear in Digital Realty Trust, L.P.’s 2025 subsidiary list.
- Proposed work
- Data center and associated improvements, with a 10% height adjustment.
- Size and power
- Building area not stated in the city record. 19.81 acres across the four county parcels. This is land area, not proposed floor area. Megawatt rating not established.
- Estimated cost, as filed
- TBA. The record states no construction cost.
- Application
- Development Review II, filed 2026-07-21. DR26-0030. Application-date record.
- Status
- In Review. No building permit issuance established by this planning record.
Parcel ownership and acquisition history
Corny: account R2065732, 28.95 acres, bought from Legacy Health Systems, instrument 2026011385.
| Parcel / address | Land area | Recorded owner |
|---|---|---|
| 1N2230003700 · no street address listed | 12.37 acres | Digital Beaver 2 LLC |
| 5450 NE Croeni Avenue · 1N223BC00100 | 3.80 acres | Digital Beaver 3 LLC |
| 5340 NE Croeni Avenue · 1N223BC00200 | 1.90 acres | Digital Beaver 2 LLC |
| 5225 NE Five Oaks Drive · 1N223BC00300 | 1.74 acres | Digital Beaver 2 LLC |
Filing register (2)
| Site and record | First filed | Permit first issued | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corny Data Center / DR26-0031 | 2026-07-21 | Planning case, no building permit issuance established | Data center and associated improvements, with a 10% height adjustment. |
| Wagon Data Center / DR26-0030 | 2026-07-21 | Planning case, no building permit issuance established | Data center and associated improvements, with a 10% height adjustment. |
Government actions and review milestones (6)
| Date | Authority | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-27 | Hillsboro City Council | Adopted Resolution 2932, a 120-day application moratorium. |
| 2026-08-03 | City of Hillsboro | Published its two-phase amendment schedule. |
| 2026-08-12 | Hillsboro Planning Commission | Work session on the first-phase data and energy storage code amendments. |
| 2026-08-18 | Skamania County Board of Commissioners | Adopted a moratorium on all data centers in the county (Resolution 2026-22), as reported by the Columbia Gorge News. |
| 2026-08-26 | Hillsboro Planning Commission | Public hearing on the first-phase code amendments. |
| 2026-09-09 | Hillsboro Planning Commission | Approved the first-phase data and energy storage code amendments at a public hearing. |
A meeting, hearing or comment period is not itself an approval.
Reported
City and county records were searched through September 30, 2026.
- STACK POR01 / DR26-0032. Filed July 27, 2026 to revise existing campus entitlements. A same-day temporary record describes a new three- to four-story data center and support building, but the permanent record states neither that scope nor added power.
- Crane PDX02, Forest Grove. Crane’s own site lists a second Forest Grove building, PDX02, at about 48 MW and 150,000 square feet. Forest Grove’s structural register shows no application for it.
- Flexential Hillsboro 6, 3935 NE Aloclek Place. Flexential announced a two-story, 350,000-square-foot building of about 27 MW in September 2025. City records show no application for it.
- STACK POR03G, 3927 NE Evergreen Road. A September 2 permit demolishes a house and sheds “to accommodate new data center facility”. City records show no application for the data center itself.
- NTT HI10, 6000 NW Jackson School Road. Six NTT Enterprise Zone tax applications signed in April 2026 are among those challenged in a June lawsuit. City records show no data center application at the site.
- QTS Hillsboro 3, NE Pubols Street. Approved by city case DR-014-23 in 2023. QTS Enterprise Zone tax applications signed in April 2026 are challenged in the same lawsuit. City records show no building application.
- Aligned PDX02, 4705 NE 30th Avenue. A September 9 permit for low-voltage cabling, access control and cameras names PDX02. City records show no permit for a PDX02 building or stated power.
- Upland Data Center, 1645 Railroad Avenue, St. Helens. St. Helens records name the project “Upland Data Center”, with grading and temporary office trailers filed in March 2026. City records show no data center building application.
- EdgeConneX POR03, 6501 NE Bennett Street. Oregon DEQ issued a standard air permit for the building in May 2025. City records show no planning case or stated power for it.
Coverage and method: seven-county historical records
Boundary: the seven-county Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metro, Clackamas, OR, Columbia, OR, Multnomah, OR, Washington, OR, Yamhill, OR, Clark, WA, Skamania, WA. Included: new data center planning applications by site and application date, and existing-site filings that add a data hall, data center use or power. Trades, replacements, life-safety work and offices are left out. State air permits from Oregon DEQ and the Southwest Clean Air Agency were searched by name. Window: Q1 2025 through Q3 2026 for every source below unless its gaps say otherwise. These searches do not establish county-wide totals.
| County | Public histories recovered | Remaining gaps |
|---|---|---|
| Washington, OR | Hillsboro: Planning register for every quarter since Q1 2025. Building register: every permit type through April 2025, then structural permits only, with commercial descriptions read. Forest Grove: Structural register for 2025 through Q3 2026, with commercial descriptions and the earlier Crane history. Beaverton: Commercial building and planning records, searched by the date each was added. County planning: County land-use case reports for 2025 and 2026. | County building history, full trade histories, older Beaverton dates and the Cornelius, Tigard, Tualatin, Sherwood, King City and Durham registers. No county-wide total. |
| Multnomah, OR | PortlandMaps: Commercial building, land-use, early-assistance and predevelopment records by created date. Gresham: Permits and plans by application date. Five linked records document the 150 NW 20th Street conversion. Troutdale: Permits and plans by application date. | Unincorporated county planning, Fairview, Wood Village and Portland’s full trade history. Some Portland projects carry several names. |
| Clackamas, OR | County Citizen Access: Planning and commercial building records for all seven quarters. The commercial category includes alterations as well as new construction. | City records for Lake Oswego, West Linn, Wilsonville, Oregon City, Happy Valley, Milwaukie, Sandy, Molalla and Estacada. |
| Columbia, OR | County ePermitting: County structural records with commercial scope details. St. Helens ePermitting: City structural records with commercial scope details. | Planning, other trades, and Scappoose, Clatskanie, Columbia City and Vernonia. |
| Yamhill, OR | County ePermitting: County structural records with commercial scope details. Newberg GIS: Dated records in the city’s public address and permit map. | Newberg records without matched addresses, county and municipal planning, and the McMinnville, Dundee and Lafayette registers. |
| Clark, WA | County LMS: County planning and permit records, with commercial permit descriptions read apart from kitchen fire-suppression, foundation-only and drying-oven permits. Camas: Permits and plans by application date. Battle Ground: Permits and plans by application date. State SEPA register: Every environmental-review record issued in the period for Clark and Skamania. Projects exempt from SEPA review are not in it. | Vancouver’s permit center allows only sign-in or lookup by permit number, and its public projects dashboard, current to October 12, 2026, shows no project named for a data center. Ridgefield, Washougal, La Center and Yacolt histories and state-issued electrical permits are incomplete. |
| Skamania, WA | State SEPA register: County-tagged records included in the two-county environmental review above. | The county permit portal requires sign-in, and its public notices page lists no data center application. Stevenson and North Bonneville were not searched. |
Sources and revisions
The linked municipal records, application documents and government notices support the findings above. Filing dates, scope and review status are kept separate. This edition is final for Q3 2026 within the scope stated above. A correction will identify the affected record and the figures or findings that need revision.
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