Environment
Hillsboro’s Data Center Code Amendment Flunks the AI Test: Why Phase 1 Is an Exercise in Futility
The Real Story- A Column At last night’s Hillsboro City Council evening work session, City staff presented what was pitched...
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CoreSite Proposes Massive Multi-Story Hillsboro Data Campus Opposite County Homes And Over Wetlands – A Showdown Is Brewing
The Real Story - A Column While the Hillsboro City Council continues to slow-play changes to zoning ordinances around data...
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The PGE Rate Hike On Data Centers Is Framed As A Victory, But It is Much Ado About Not Enough
The Real Story: A Column If you only read the headlines this week, you'd think Oregon just won a war...
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The Silicon Forest is Out of Juice: Inside Hillsboro’s Silent One-Gigawatt Battery Explosion and the Hidden Power Crisis
The Real Story - A Column When rumors first started swirling that Hillsboro’s power grid was hitting a terminal bottleneck,...
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Hillsboro Council Faces Data Center Deals Head On At Tuesday Night Work Session And Council Meeting
The Real Story - A Column Next Tuesday evening, June 2nd, 2026, at 6 PM, the City of Hillsboro will...
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The Dredge of Desperation: Wall Street’s Plan to Tear Up the Columbia River for Hillsboro’s Data Centers
The Real Story - A Column Editor's Note: Our original story unintentionally partially confused PowerBridge, LLC of Fairfield, Connecticut, with...
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Hillsboro May Be Out Of Power: The High Cost of the Data Center “Gold Rush”
Let me open with the conclusion: Hillsboro Is Out Of Power. If that concerns you, read on. For two decades,...
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CLEAN WATER SERVICES NAMES RAHIM HARJI AS NEXT GENERAL MANAGER – AS MASSIVE RATE INCREASES ARE ON THE AGENDA
Editor's Note: There is no doubt in anyone's mind that Clean Water Services, as an agency, has been out of...
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The Hillsboro Project No One is Talking About: A $38M Private Jet “Fortress” Heading for Approval Tomorrow
The Real Story - A Column April 8th, 2026- 10:34 PM- Editors Update: Thanks to the thousands of local residents...
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Hillsboro’s Big Water Pipe: A $1.6 Billion Lifeline or a Data Center Subsidy?
The Real Story- A Column The "Big Pipe" (Willamette Water Supply Program) is no longer a blueprint or a debate—it...
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