Flexential to build new Hillsboro data center expansion

DENVER — Flexential has expanded its presence in Hillsboro, Oregon, one of the nation’s most competitive digital infrastructure markets, with the purchase of property that will house its sixth data center in the city.

The new site, located across from the company’s Hillsboro 1 facility, will become Hillsboro 6, a 350,000-square-foot, two-story center designed to support 27 megawatts of capacity. The project will operate through Flexential’s FlexAnywhere platform, which offers colocation, cloud, interconnection, data protection, and managed and professional services.

The company said the acquisition reflects its preference for facility ownership and strengthens its ability to provide infrastructure for enterprise, artificial intelligence, and cloud workloads.

“Hillsboro has become a smart alternative to Silicon Valley for customers seeking the performance, flexibility, and cost structure they cannot find elsewhere, especially those with strong ties across the Pacific,” said Ryan Mallory, president and chief operating officer of Flexential. “This project reflects our belief in focused, right-sized development that enables customer growth without chasing unnecessary scale, and it furthers our commitment to delivering reliable solutions while introducing much-needed capacity in a highly coveted area.”

Flexential currently operates four data centers in Hillsboro, with a fifth facility under construction that is expected to open next year. Together, the sites form a major transpacific hub, anchored by Hillsboro 2, which is often referred to as the “Network Access Point of the Northwest” for its dense connectivity and multiple subsea cable landings.

The company’s infrastructure in the region is powered by Portland General Electric’s Sunset Reliability Center and supported by renewable energy through the utility’s Clean Wind program. Hillsboro’s “Silicon Forest” is known for its cloud and AI ecosystem, tax incentives, and clean energy options, which have helped make it one of the most attractive data center markets in the country.

The market has been marked by extremely tight supply. Hillsboro recorded a vacancy rate of just 0.2 percent in the first half of 2025, the lowest among major U.S. data center hubs, according to CBRE.

Flexential has more than 330 megawatts of capacity built or under development nationwide, including a 22.5-megawatt high-density facility in Parker, Colorado, set to open in 2026. The company also secured ownership of its Atlanta-area portfolio earlier this year.

Over the past year, Flexential has raised about $1 billion from investors including GI Partners, GI Data Infrastructure, Hamilton Lane, and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners to fund its expansion and build next-generation data centers.