Crane DC - Portland
3975 Heather Street · Forest Grove, Washington County, OR
Source: OpenStreetMap
Crane DC - Portland is a mapped data center in Washington County, OR. DataCentersExposed has documented a 119,295 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
Overview
source: linkCrane DC - Portland is a mapped data center in Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon, tied in available records to Crane Data Centers Inc. Its reported footprint is 119,295 square feet. The site is served by the City of Forest Grove utility within the BPAT balancing authority. No further ownership detail is disclosed in the records reviewed.
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.
In the news
source: Google News- Oregon Regulators Approve Rate Hike for Data CentersWillamette Week· Jul 8, 2026
- Xander Bostick: Data Center Perspective From the Holly Grove Homesteaddavidsonlocal.com· Jun 30, 2026
- Data Center Backlash Decided an Oregon Senate Race in the Silicon Forest. It Could Factor Big in November.Willamette Week· Jun 13, 2026
- Temporary Data Center Moratorium Proposal Moves Forward In Lake CountyPatch· Jun 11, 2026
- Data centers are driving demand for gas from Northwest utilities, reports findHillsboro News Times· Jun 4, 2026
- Hillsboro residents demand halt to data center developmentForest Grove News-Times· Jun 4, 2026
Data-center discussions in Washington County
source: LocalView (CC0)Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
Oregon reported $26.9M in Enterprise Zone (Long-Term Rural EZ, ORS 285C.400) property-tax abatement — Crook County (Meta Prineville campus) for FY2025 (Crook County, Oregon (audited financial statements / GASB 77 note)). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.
Water use
No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Hillsboro), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.
Who lives nearby
source: Census ACS 2023Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, Neil Armstrong Middle School in Forest Grove, is 0.2 mi from this site (826 students). 4 public schools sit within a mile of the site.
Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).
Hearings timeline
No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.