Construction Dive covered Google’s selection of Baltimore-based Whiting-Turner Contracting to build a $600 million, 290,000-square-foot data center in Wasco County, Oregon. The facility adds to Google’s existing footprint in the area, where the tech giant has invested over $1.8 billion since 2006.
Google chose the Wasco County location for its energy infrastructure, developable land and available workforce. The project follows similar developments across the country, including three data centers worth $1.7 billion in Ohio, two $800 million facilities in Temple, Texas and Kansas City, Missouri, and a $600 million data center in Mesa, Arizona.
DataBank notes that hyperscalers like Google continue aggressively buying and holding land for future data center use. Hyperscalers account for approximately 60% to 70% of new data center absorption in the market.
Other major hyperscalers pursuing similar expansion strategies include Meta Platforms, which recently selected Turner Construction for an $800 million data center campus in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and Amazon, which announced plans for a $515 million data center farm in Hilliard, Ohio.
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