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Substation Unleashes More Power in Prineville
January 14th, 2013 : Rich MillerThe opening of a new electrical substation in Prineville, Oregon will add 350 megawatts of capacity to the local power grid, clearing the way for additional data center development. Read More
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Telx Opens Oregon Site, Continuing Northwest Expansion
December 12th, 2012 : Jason VergeTelx opens a 52,000 square foot data center in Hillsboro, Oregon, about 15 miles from downtown Portland. It shows the continued emergence of the "Silicon Forest" as a major data center market. Read More
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NetApp Is Newest Entry in Portland’s Growing Silicon Forest
November 5th, 2012 : Rich MillerNetApp is the latest company to open a new data center in the "Silicon Forest." On Friday, the storage vendor opened the doors of its new facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, which will serve as the hub for NetApp's global customer support monitoring and corporate IT services. Read More
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T5 Heads for Oregon With New Facility in Hillsboro
October 10th, 2012 : Rich MillerT5 Data Centers is the latest data center developer to pursue a major facility in Oregon. The Atlanta-based company has acquired a 15-acre parcel of land in Hillsboro, Oregon and is finalizing design for construction of a 200,000 square foot wholesale data center. Read More
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Fortune Gets $500,000 Award for Oregon Facility
August 29th, 2012 : Rich MillerFortune Data Centers says the efficiency initiatives in its Oregon data center have will bring a $500,000 award from Energy Trust of Oregon. Read More
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Rackspace Buys Oregon Land for Data Center
August 22nd, 2012 : Rich MillerRackspace Hosting has confirmed that it has bought land in Oregon for a possible data center, but the company says it has not finalized any plans, and would work with a third-party developer rather than building the facility itself. Rackspace (RAX) also announced that it is partnering with Digital Realty on a new data center in Sydney, Australia. Read More
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Apple Expansion Boosts Prineville Data Center Ecosystem
August 16th, 2012 : Rich MillerIt's been a big week for Prineville, Oregon, with both Apple and Facebook filing expansion plans this week, the town of about 10,000 people in central Oregon is showing signs of progress in a bid to become a data center destination. Read More
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Huge Oregon Chip Plant May Become Data Center
May 31st, 2012 : Rich MillerA former Hynix semiconductor facility in Eugene, Oregon may be converted into a 900,000 square foot data center. It's the latest project seeking to retrofit semiconductor plants, which share a number of key attributes with data centers, and could continue the momentum for Oregon as a data center destination. Read More
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In Oregon, Mission West Looks to the East
May 15th, 2012 : Rich MillerWhile western Oregon has been a hotbed of data center activity, developer Mission West Properties has decided to look east with a data center development in Ontario, Oregon, close to the border of Idaho. Read More
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center

