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Recent Oregon data center news

• Dec 10, 2025

  Top Environmental Victories of 2025

  The Sierra Club announces a roundup of its top environmental victories in 2025.

  • Major announced actions: The article catalogs specific legal, legislative, and advocacy wins including: stopping a proposed public-lands sell-off after Congressional withdrawal; passage of the Climate Change Superfund Act in New York (following Vermont in 2024) and introduced bills in California, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Maine; legal victories blocking Commonwealth LNG (coastal use permit terminated) and two lawsuits creating guardrails on data centers in Kansas and Michigan; NEVI program restart unlocking $2.7 billion for EV charging; and a $744 million jury verdict against Chevron for coastal damages in Louisiana.
  • Background and additional details: The piece lists species and land protections (Northern Rockies wolves, Colorado bison, Rice’s whales), closure of Merrimack Station (final New England coal plant) and repeal of an Ohio coal-bailout that would have cost nearly half a billion dollars, passage of Utah’s balcony solar law allowing small plug-in systems without utility approval, a coalition delivering ~500,000 public comments to defend the Roadless Rule (including 40,000 from Sierra Club advocates), and a world-record origami action sending more than 86,000 paper fish to oppose Enbridge’s Line 5.
• Dec 2, 2025

  Data Center Jobs: Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Sales, Field Service and Facility Tech Jobs Available in Major Data Center Hotspots

  Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza, posted a monthly roundup of active data center job openings on the Pkaza jobs board.

  • Main announcement: Data Center Frontier and Pkaza published a list of open roles (examples: Data Center Facility Technician, Electrical Commissioning Engineer, Construction Project Manager, Electrical Engineer, Critical Power Sales Associate, Sr Mechanical Engineer, Site Selection Manager/Director/VP, Electrical Project Manager, MEP Superintendent, Mechanical Commissioning Engineer, Engineering Design Director, Navy Nuke Facility Technician) posted on Pkaza’s jobs board; positions are available across many US cities including Ashburn, VA; Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Montvale, NJ; Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; New Albany, OH; Phoenix, AZ.
  • Background and details: Roles are for mission-critical data center employers (developers, colo providers, contractors, commissioning firms) and frequently emphasize reliability, energy efficiency, sustainable design / LEED expertise and commissioning; some listings explicitly accept Navy Nuke / military veterans and many positions list multiple alternative locations or hybrid/remote options. Author: Kathy Hitchens (Data Center Frontier).
• Dec 2, 2025 · RMI

  The Five Types of Electro-Industrial States

  Rocky Mountain Institute presents a typology classifying US states into five electro-industrial archetypes.

  • Main announcement/action: RMI authors classify states into five archetypes — Momentum Hubs (Arizona, California), Fast‑Track Builders (Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Ohio, Idaho), Policy Champions (New York, Michigan, Virginia, Oregon, Washington, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania), Open‑Door Starters (Vermont, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Mississippi, Iowa), and Early‑Stage Starters (Missouri, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Maine, Alabama, Louisiana, Indiana, West Virginia, Montana, Arkansas). The typology is based on policy reliability, regulatory ease, economic capacity, physical infrastructure (power and interconnection), and market momentum.
  • Background and details: The analysis highlights that market momentum and policy reliability should operate in tandem; low regulatory burdens accelerate short-term investment but may strain local housing and infrastructure without accompanying policy ambition. The authors reference the report GREASE Lightning as a policy playbook for designing investment-led, state-driven electro-industrial strategies.
• Nov 6, 2025

  NuScale Power Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results

  NuScale Power Corporation announced Q3 2025 financial results and emphasized its selection under a landmark agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority and ENTRA1 for a major U.S. SMR deployment program.

  • Main announcement/action: NuScale highlighted that its SMR technology was selected by ENTRA1 and the Tennessee Valley Authority as part of what the company calls the largest SMR deployment program in U.S. history, and reiterated readiness for commercial deployment of NuScale Power Modules (NPMs) for customers including AI data centers, mining, and semiconductor manufacturing; the company also hosted a conference call today at 5:00 p.m. ET (dial-in: (888) 550-5460, conference ID 4347254; live webcast available on the Company’s Quarterly Results page; replay available for 30 days).
  • Background and financial details: Q3 highlights include cash, cash equivalents and short- and long-term investments of $753.8 million, sale of 13.2 million shares via an ATM generating $475.2 million in gross proceeds, recognition of Milestone Contribution 1 of $495.0 million under the ENTRA1 Partnership Milestones Agreement (which materially increased G&A by ~$502.2 million in Q3); revenue growth tied to engineering services supporting RoPower’s plan for a six-NPM SMR plant in Romania; NuScale describes each NPM as 77 MWe (250 MWt) and scalable up to 924 MWe (12 modules).
• Nov 6, 2025

  50 States of Power Decarbonization Q3 2025: States Work to Accelerate Clean Energy Project Development and Define “Large” Load Customers

  The NC Clean Energy Technology Center released the Q3 2025 edition of the 50 States of Power Decarbonization quarterly report.

  • Key announcement: The Q3 2025 report documents that 48 states and Puerto Rico took a total of 384 actions related to electric power decarbonization and resource planning in Q3 2025, with 234 introduced bills (not yet passed a chamber). The report also summarizes planned capacity additions from integrated resource plans: solar 87,539 MW, natural gas 77,145 MW, wind 43,031 MW, storage 39,310 MW, and planned coal retirements 33,424 MW. Top active states listed are North Carolina, California, and Minnesota (followed by Indiana, Missouri, and Oregon).

  • Background and details: The report identifies three trends: (1) states responding to federal clean energy policy changes (citing the passage of OBBBA) and accelerating project development (focus on permitting and interconnection), (2) states/utilities reconsidering demand thresholds for large load customers (e.g., data centers), and (3) state regulators revising integrated resource planning rules. The report highlights five specific Q3 developments, including North Carolina lawmakers repealing interim emission targets, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission approving a new NIPSCO subsidiary for large loads, Ohio approving an AEP Ohio customer class for data centers, the Southwest Power Pool’s new interconnection policy for large loads, and Georgia/Virginia regulators approving IRPs for Georgia Power and Dominion Energy.

• Nov 6, 2025

  Trane unveils thermal management design for next-gen NVIDIA data centers

  Trane Technologies has launched Reference Design #501, a thermal management reference design targeted at gigawatt-scale AI data centers engineered around NVIDIA Omniverse DSX and NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin chips.

  • Main announcement/action: Reference Design #501 is a gigawatt-scale thermal management reference design that integrates the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX blueprint for AI factories (designed for Vera Rubin chips). It emphasizes high-efficiency water-cooled chillers, swing chillers (shift between high- and low-temperature loops), dedicated temperature loops to maximize free cooling hours, and advanced controls to minimize onsite energy consumption and free up power for computing.
  • Background and additional details: The design responds to power constraints in key U.S. markets (e.g., Pacific Northwest, Mid-Atlantic, northern Virginia) and incorporates digital twin capabilities to aggregate 3D data, simulate performance across loads/conditions, and optimize thermal systems prior to construction; Trane positions the digital twin as enabling continuous optimization and future-proofing for facilities that can cost billions of dollars to build. The announcement references coordination with adjacent products (e.g., dry coolers) to optimize PUE and can, in some ambient conditions, nearly zero out water consumption.
• Nov 6, 2025 · RMI

  How Virtual Power Plants Can Help the United States Win the AI Race

  RMI publishes an analytical brief recommending rapid deployment and novel commercial models for virtual power plants (VPPs) to speed interconnection and reliably supply growing AI/data-center loads in the United States.

  • Main announcement/action: RMI proposes three commercial models (Pass-Through Funding for Utility-Managed VPPs; VPP Capacity Transfer; VPP as Reliability Reinforcement) to enable large loads to sponsor VPP capacity in exchange for expedited interconnection. Key figures and timelines include VPPs could scale to meet over 20% of US peak demand by 2030, Brattle’s finding that 400 MW of VPP resource adequacy costs ~$2 million annually versus ~$43 million for equivalent new gas plants and grid upgrades, and examples of program scale such as California’s DSGS enrolling over 750 MW (including a 500 MW increase during Jan–Oct 2025). Utility and grid timing constraints cited include gas turbine backlogs through at least 2028, average interconnection timelines >5 years, and localized waits (e.g., Dominion warns up to 7 years in Northern Virginia; some DFW data center deliveries delayed to 2027 or later).

  • Background and implementation details: The brief documents operational examples (National Grid Connected Solutions; Green Mountain Power battery programs; Ontario 90 MW residential VPP that enrolled 100,000 homes in six months) and outlines policy and market prerequisites: changes to interconnection policy (e.g., Oregon, Nevada, CAISO, SPP experiments), stronger integrated planning and data access (capacity accreditation, Green Button Connect), and customer protection measures (transparent tariffs, up-front payments/long-term contracts, rate-design evaluations). It emphasizes measurement & verification, transferable capacity credits, and that models shift different financial and delivery risks among large loads, VPP aggregators, and utilities.

• Nov 4, 2025

  Power, Proximity, Policy: The Legal Landscape of Siting Data Centers Near Natural Gas Resources

  Michelman Robinson partners Warren Koshofer and Seth Leibenstein analyze the legal and regulatory considerations for siting data centers near U.S. natural gas resources.

  • Main announcement/action: The article provides a legal and practical guide on siting data centers adjacent to natural gas infrastructure, noting concrete facts such as data center loads often exceeding 100 megawatts per site and that natural gas supplies more than 40% of U.S. electricity. It identifies regional hubs (Texas/Permian Basin; Appalachian Basin — Marcellus & Utica; Midcontinent/Great Plains; Rockies — DJ and Powder River basins; Gulf South — Louisiana & Mississippi) and highlights relevant regulators like ERCOT and FERC, plus contractual vehicles such as PPAs and gas tolling arrangements.
  • Background and details: The piece outlines regulatory and compliance requirements (Clean Air Act permitting, Section 401 water quality certifications, state environmental reviews), flags evolving ESG and carbon disclosure pressures (SEC proposals, IRA incentives), and lists states considering restrictions on fossil-fueled generation for new data centers (Oregon, Virginia, Illinois). Contact details for the authors are provided: Warren Koshofer (212-730-7700; wkoshofer@mrllp.com) and Seth Leibenstein (212-730-7700; sliebenstein@mrllp.com).
• Nov 4, 2025

  GridStor Celebrates Completion of Texas’ Newest Battery Storage Facility

  GridStor dedicated its Hidden Lakes Reliability Project facility on November 4 and began operation of a 220 MW / 440 MWh battery energy storage facility in Texas.

  • Project details & immediate action: The Hidden Lakes Reliability Project is now operational as a 220 MW / 440 MWh battery energy storage facility (serving the equivalent of 140,000 average Texas households during peak hours); the facility participated in a dedication on November 4 with GridStor CEO Chris Taylor, Congressman Randy Weber, PUCT Chairman Thomas J. Gleeson, and Rep. Terri Leo-Wilson.
  • Financials, local impact & pipeline: The project will contribute tens of millions of dollars in estimated sales and use tax revenue (including property taxes) benefiting Galveston County and Dickinson Independent School District, employed approximately 100 full-time skilled tradespeople and apprentices during construction, participates in the ERCOT market, and GridStor — backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management — manages a project pipeline of over 3 GW in later-stage development or under construction.
• Nov 4, 2025

  New Data Center Developments: November 2025

  Data Center Knowledge published a monthly roundup summarizing recent global data center developments and investments across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Middle East & Africa.

  • Main roundup details: The report aggregates announcements including a $70 billion Pennsylvania initiative launched at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit; Amazon’s $8 billion Project Rainier (30 interconnected data centers in Indiana); Google’s multi-billion-dollar West Memphis campus plan; Meta’s >$1.5 billion GW-scale data center in El Paso (expected launch 2028); and a collaboration where OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage will deliver almost a GW of AI capacity in Port Washington, Wisconsin, with campus construction starting soon and completion targeted for 2028.
  • Energy and implementation details: Highlights include deployment of a 31 MW, 62 MWh BESS by Aligned Data Centers and Calibrant Energy to accelerate site commissioning; DOE opening the Oak Ridge Reservation for private AI data center development; Blue Energy planning a gas-to-small-reactor plant supplying up to 1.5 GW to Crusoe Energy Systems with a planned reactor transition by 2031; and Google committing €5 billion in Belgium plus new PPAs with Eneco/Luminus/Renner. Timelines specified in the article include 2026–2030 for Google’s $15 billion India hub and 2028 targets for several GW-scale facilities.