Meta · Hillsboro, Oregon

Meta-QTS Hillsboro 2

243MW

The power of 200,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Aug 2023.

Capital cost
$6.8B
Chips
H100
Users
Meta
Energy
Portland General Electric, Avangrid
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Power over time

facility power · 6 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 1 Apr 2021 — First signs of site land clearing appear on satellite imagery.
  2. 29 Apr 2023 — Satellite imagery shows Building 3 and 4 cooling start to go on.
  3. 2 Aug 2023 61 MW Satellite imagery shows Building 2 and 3 cooling nearing completion and Building 4 cooling install continues. We believe Building 1 is operational now due to the lack of construction equipment on or immediately around the building.
  4. 8 Nov 2024 243 MW We believe Buildings 2, 3, and 4 are operational due to the absence of construction vehicles and completed parking lots/concrete around the facilities. There is also a vehicle presence in the parking lot similar to the level seen during normal operation at other data center campuses. Finally, it is more than 12 months after cooling has been installed or in the final stages of install for the remaining three buildings.
  5. 14 Apr 2025 243 MW All four buildings are operational
  6. 17 Apr 2026 243 MW All four buildings are operational.

Hydro and gas lead the two grids that serve Washington County

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Bonneville Power Administration BPAT · balancing authority

  1. Gas 4%
  2. Coal 0%
  3. Nuclear 11%
  4. Wind 8%
  5. Solar 1%
  6. Hydro 76%
  7. Other 1%

Portland General Electric Company PGE · balancing authority

  1. Gas 77%
  2. Coal 0%
  3. Nuclear 0%
  4. Wind 0%
  5. Solar 0%
  6. Hydro 23%
  7. Other <1%

The utilities that serve Washington County, OR, report to 2 grids; the data does not show which one feeds the site. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

Owners plan 200 MW of new power in Washington County, all storage

power plants in Washington County · EIA-860M, September 2026
  1. Tualatin Battery Energy Storage System Storage · 200 MW · Dec 2027 · proposed · TUAL bn, LLC

In service in Washington County today: 99 MW. Since January 2023: 92 MW added, 0 MW retired. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI
  1. QTS Hillsboro 2 data center announcement
  2. QTS and Meta sign an agreement with PGE for a 120MWac solar installation

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of Hillsboro. Grid: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930), public domain, retrieved 16 Oct 2026; utilities by county from Form EIA-861 and the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, public domain. Power plants: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, public domain, inventory as of September 2026. All sources.