Crane DC - Portland is a data center operated by Crane Data Centers Inc. in Forest Grove, OR, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Hillsboro data-center market on the WECC grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates CAUTION, with an estimated 19.6-month time-to-power. The market shows mixed signals — validate live grid headroom and queue depth before committing capacity.
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Data Center Power Index verdict for Hillsboro — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Hillsboro — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Hillsboro operates at a critical inflection point: 108 tracked facilities generating 450 MW of capacity face a paradoxical constraint where excess power availability 50/100 is nearly matched by infrastructure constraint pressure 49/100. The market's operator base remains fragmented, with Flexential commanding the largest footprint at 12 facilities, followed by Quality Technology Services 10 MW and two Stack entities collectively holding 13 MW. This distributed leadership structure—no single operator controls more than 3% of tracked capacity—reflects a market still in consolidation phase rather than maturity. The CAUTION verdict signals a market where supply-demand equilibrium is brittle. A 50/100 excess-power score indicates available grid capacity, but the 49/100 constraint reading reveals that physical infrastructure interconnects, cooling systems, or real estate availability is…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
DC Hub tracks 46 operating generating units totalling 483 MW within about 50 km of Forest Grove, US. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.
Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.
Comparable facilities in Forest Grove tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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