Industrially Scaled and Responsive Infrastructure
A 50-Year, Dual-Source Water System
Silicon Forest is served by a system modeled and built out to meet the needs of water sensitive and critical industries such as semiconductor manufacturing. This $1.6 billion investment will provide water capacity (up to 42.2 million gallons per day), resiliency, and quality to meet the industry’s needs.
A Green Power Community
The City of Hillsboro, the tallest tree in the Silicon Forest, is recognized by the EPA as a Green Power Community ranking third nationally in percent of green power electricity use with 65.8%, and ranking first in the country in annual green power usage with over 3 billion kWh of green power energy.
The Silicon Forest is meeting industry’s electrical needs through Portland General Electric and Bonneville Power’s high reliability grid. Additional efforts are underway to scale up renewable energy generation and transmission.
A Data Superhighway
The Silicon Forest is well-served by several national “last mile” telecommunications carriers providing fiber optic data, voice, and wireless internet service to meet any business need, including the needs of data-intensive companies like those involved in finance, media, e-commerce, healthcare, information technology and others.
The densest network of international and domestic cable in the Pacific Northwest, with 38 carriers provide minimal latency domestically to all major US cities.
The center of six trans-Pacific cables supplying data connectivity and capacity between Asia, the Pacific Coast, and beyond.