Stack Infrastructure breaks ground on third Portland area data center campus
Stack Infrastructure says it has launched construction of the POR03 campus in Hillsboro, OR. As the name implies, the 28-acre campus will be the company’s third in the Portland area.
Located at 4735 NE Starr Blvd. in Hillsboro, POR03 will open with a 24-MW facility in the third quarter of 2021, Stack expects. When fully built out, the campus should offer a total capacity of 84 MW. The site is less than a quarter-mile from a new 34.5-kV substation, with power supplied by Portland General Electric. The campus also will be connected to the new Wave Business Hillsboro Data Center Ring II, a 3,456-strand fiber-optic network that offers transpacific submarine cable access. Access to Ring I will also be available via connection to POR02.
Stack’s two other Portland area facilities offer a total of 28.8 MW that includes 3 MW of immediately available capacity as well as a neighboring build-to-suit campus with 12 MW of potential capacity. When fully built out, Stack’s Hillsboro campuses will total more than125 MW.
“Hillsboro continues to be an enduring, popular destination for clients, with its access to plentiful power, low-cost carbon-free supply options like wind, solar and hydro, and excellent connectivity to the major West Coast availability zones and international markets,” said Matt VanderZanden, chief strategy officer of Stack. “Cloud and content providers and enterprises want to be there, and therefore, we want to be there. It’s our mission to support these companies with flexibility and scale as they innovate and grow.”
In addition to its activities in Oregon, Stack offers wholesale build-to suit, colocation, and powered shell solutions in seven other markets: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, New Albany (Ohio), Northern Virginia, Phoenix, and Silicon Valley.
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