HILLSBORO, OR-Fortune Data Centers, a San Jose, CA-based company that provides wholesale data center space for corporate customers, is expanding to this Portland suburb on a 15-acre site with a 240,000 square foot industrial building in an enterprise zone. Fortune bought the site in May and is already over 55,000 man hours into the phase one construction project, according to Matt Mochary, CEO of the company.
The new data center will produce 7.8 megawatts of critical load capacity, and at completion is expected to add 20 to 40 full time jobs in addition to tenant employees in a building that was vacant for five years. Phase one is expected to be completed and Level 5 commissioned by the second quarter of 2012.