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Released July 05, 2022 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--When one thinks of technology, one doesn't necessarily think of Oregon. That's usually reserved for the state's southern neighbor, California, particularly around the San Francisco Bay area. Nevertheless, some of the largest tech companies in the nation are constructing some of their largest data center complexes in Oregon, propelling this sector into the top of Oregon's spending for projects that are under construction. More than half of Oregon's $3.6 billion in underway industrial projects is attributed to data centers.
Click on the image at right for a breakdown by industry of industrial projects under construction in Oregon.
The top players in the tech industry are underway with data center projects in the state, including Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Incorporated (NASDAQ:META) (Menlo Park, California), Amazon.com Incorporated (NASDAQ:AMZN) (Seattle, Washington), Google parent company Alphabet Incorporated (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (Mountain View, California) and Apple Incorporated (NASDAQ:AAPL) (Cupertino, California).
Two of these projects are occurring in Prineville, about 150 miles southeast of Portland. Meta is expanding its data center complex by constructing the new 450,000-square-foot, two-story Building 9. The project is expected to wrap up in the first quarter of 2023. According to local news media, Meta (then Facebook Incorporated) built its first data center in Prineville in 2009, lured by Oregon's tax laws, which allow communities to give unlimited tax breaks to large capital projects. Meta's facility has expanded steadily since then, and it remains the company's largest complex of data centers anywhere.
Apple has been in the Prineville area since 2013 and is underway with a Phase II expansion of its data center campus there by constructing a 338,000-square-foot building with two data halls to help support 5G technology. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Industrial Manufacturing Project Database can click here for details on the Meta project and here for the Apple project.
While data centers take a leading role in Oregon's project activity, other sectors also show strength, including the Power Industry, which is dominated by solar and hydropower projects, including the Bakeoven photovoltaic solar plant in Maupin, in the north-central part of the state. Project owner Avangrid Incorporated (NYSE:AGR) (Orange, Connecticut) is using Canadian Solar (NASDAQ:CSIQ) (Guelph, Ontario) panels to achieve a nameplate generating capacity of 60 megawatts (MW). Accompanying the solar plant is a 100-MW battery energy system (BESS). The facilities are expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year. White Construction (Clinton, Indiana) is providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for both projects. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Power Project Database can click here for the detailed project report on the solar plant and here for the accompanying BESS.
Among Oregon's hydropower projects is the Eugene Water & Electric Board's (Eugene, Oregon) rehabilitation of Unit 2 at its Carmen Smith Hydropower Station in Foster. The project kicked off last summer and includes a replacement of the 52.25-MW turbine's turbine runner as well as a generator rewind to extend service life for another 40 years. The project is expected to be completed toward the end of this year. Subscribers can click here for the detailed report.
Renewable diesel projects are big in the West Coast region, thanks in large part to California's stringent air-quality goals. While many refineries are being converted to renewable diesel production that produces the fuel from soybean oil, Red Rock Biofuels LLC (Fort Collins, Colorado) is at work on a grassroot renewable diesel plant that uses forestry biomass in Lakeview, Oregon. The facility will use a Fischer-Tropsch gasification system to process 166,000 tons per year of forest biomass into 16 million gallons per year of liquid fuels, including renewable diesel, jet fuel and naphtha. The project has been underway since the summer of 2018 and is expected to wrap up in 2024. According to Red Rock, the facility will be the first plant in the world capable of using waste woody matter as feedstock to make renewable fuels. Subscribers can click here for the report.
The state also has a number of pharmaceutical-biotech projects under construction, such as Twist Bioscience Corporation's (NASDAQ:TWST) (South San Francisco, California) "Factory of the Future," which will use a proprietary method to make synthetic DNA for research and development across a variety of disciplines. Construction kicked off last summer in Wilsonville, on the southwestern outskirts of Portland, and is nearing completion. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Pharma-Biotech Project Database can click here for the full report.
Subscribers can click here for the reports on all of the projects discussed in this article and here for the plant profiles.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking over 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 trillion (USD).
Click on the image at right for a breakdown by industry of industrial projects under construction in Oregon.The top players in the tech industry are underway with data center projects in the state, including Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Incorporated (NASDAQ:META) (Menlo Park, California), Amazon.com Incorporated (NASDAQ:AMZN) (Seattle, Washington), Google parent company Alphabet Incorporated (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (Mountain View, California) and Apple Incorporated (NASDAQ:AAPL) (Cupertino, California).
Two of these projects are occurring in Prineville, about 150 miles southeast of Portland. Meta is expanding its data center complex by constructing the new 450,000-square-foot, two-story Building 9. The project is expected to wrap up in the first quarter of 2023. According to local news media, Meta (then Facebook Incorporated) built its first data center in Prineville in 2009, lured by Oregon's tax laws, which allow communities to give unlimited tax breaks to large capital projects. Meta's facility has expanded steadily since then, and it remains the company's largest complex of data centers anywhere.
Apple has been in the Prineville area since 2013 and is underway with a Phase II expansion of its data center campus there by constructing a 338,000-square-foot building with two data halls to help support 5G technology. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Industrial Manufacturing Project Database can click here for details on the Meta project and here for the Apple project.
While data centers take a leading role in Oregon's project activity, other sectors also show strength, including the Power Industry, which is dominated by solar and hydropower projects, including the Bakeoven photovoltaic solar plant in Maupin, in the north-central part of the state. Project owner Avangrid Incorporated (NYSE:AGR) (Orange, Connecticut) is using Canadian Solar (NASDAQ:CSIQ) (Guelph, Ontario) panels to achieve a nameplate generating capacity of 60 megawatts (MW). Accompanying the solar plant is a 100-MW battery energy system (BESS). The facilities are expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year. White Construction (Clinton, Indiana) is providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for both projects. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Power Project Database can click here for the detailed project report on the solar plant and here for the accompanying BESS.
Among Oregon's hydropower projects is the Eugene Water & Electric Board's (Eugene, Oregon) rehabilitation of Unit 2 at its Carmen Smith Hydropower Station in Foster. The project kicked off last summer and includes a replacement of the 52.25-MW turbine's turbine runner as well as a generator rewind to extend service life for another 40 years. The project is expected to be completed toward the end of this year. Subscribers can click here for the detailed report.
Renewable diesel projects are big in the West Coast region, thanks in large part to California's stringent air-quality goals. While many refineries are being converted to renewable diesel production that produces the fuel from soybean oil, Red Rock Biofuels LLC (Fort Collins, Colorado) is at work on a grassroot renewable diesel plant that uses forestry biomass in Lakeview, Oregon. The facility will use a Fischer-Tropsch gasification system to process 166,000 tons per year of forest biomass into 16 million gallons per year of liquid fuels, including renewable diesel, jet fuel and naphtha. The project has been underway since the summer of 2018 and is expected to wrap up in 2024. According to Red Rock, the facility will be the first plant in the world capable of using waste woody matter as feedstock to make renewable fuels. Subscribers can click here for the report.
The state also has a number of pharmaceutical-biotech projects under construction, such as Twist Bioscience Corporation's (NASDAQ:TWST) (South San Francisco, California) "Factory of the Future," which will use a proprietary method to make synthetic DNA for research and development across a variety of disciplines. Construction kicked off last summer in Wilsonville, on the southwestern outskirts of Portland, and is nearing completion. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Pharma-Biotech Project Database can click here for the full report.
Subscribers can click here for the reports on all of the projects discussed in this article and here for the plant profiles.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking over 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 trillion (USD).
