WA

State · 80 data centres recorded in OpenStreetMap

Change region

Mapped facilities

on the map today

Floor area

0.65

km² across 67 buildings

Share of US load

712

MW, inferred upper bound

Water

1.55

million gal/day, inferred

13 of these 80 are not mapped as buildings, so no power figure is estimated for them. 12 are campus boundaries covering 3.12 km² of land, and 1 is a site mapped as under construction. The megawatt figure above divides a national total by building floor area, and the area of a land parcel is not floor area. A site still being built consumed none of the electricity that total measures. Both are counted here and left out of the estimate rather than folded into it, so this region's load is understated by however much those represent.

When these appeared on the map

observed, not surveyed

Data centres recorded in OpenStreetMap at the end of each month. The hatched stretch is before 2017-01, when telecom=data_center was not yet in common use — the near-zero readings there describe the tag, not the country. This is a count of what has been mapped, and OpenStreetMap carries no construction dates.

2 of these 80 facilities do not appear in the curve. The chart counts facilities whose appearance was observed in OpenStreetMap's edit history; one mapped before 2012 has no creation edit to observe. The two numbers answer different questions — how many are on the map now, and how many were watched arriving — and neither is wrong.

What the grid here looks like

reported by OSM contributors

Substations

880

69 kV and above

Bulk substations

158

230 kV and above

Highest voltage

500

kV, present in this state

Generating capacity

34,693

MW across 147 plants

A facility drawing hundreds of megawatts connects at bulk transmission voltage, so the second figure matters more than the first: forty 69 kV yards are not a substitute for one 500 kV substation. 32 of the plants here carry no capacity tag, so the megawatt total is a floor rather than the region's output.

Proximity is not connection. Nothing here shows that any facility has contracted power from any of these substations. That gets settled in interconnection filings Helios cannot read, and in several regions those queues now run for years. A county showing no substations may have none mapped rather than none standing.

Largest named mapped records

by mapped area

Name	Operator	Mapped as	Mapped area m²	Share MW	First mapped
Microsoft MWH Data Center	Microsoft	Campus boundary	778,621	—	2019-07-23
Intergate Quincy Data Center	Sabey Data Centers	Campus boundary	401,203	—	2016-12-17
Microsoft Columbia Data Center	not recorded	Campus boundary	287,817	—	2019-07-23
NTTData Data Center	not recorded	Campus boundary	285,079	—	2025-03-19
Vantage Quincy Campus	Vantage	Campus boundary	264,486	—	2016-12-17
Intergate Columbia	not recorded	Campus boundary	257,443	—	2019-07-23
H5 Data Center	Intuit	Campus boundary	250,895	—	2016-12-17
Yahoo Data Center	Yahoo	Campus boundary	201,720	—	2016-12-17
Centeris	not recorded	Campus boundary	190,683	—	2023-11-24
CyrusOne Quincy	CyrusOne	Campus boundary	165,327	—	2024-12-19
Actapio	Actapio	Campus boundary	33,679	—	2022-06-20
Intergate Columbia A	Sabey Data Centers	Building	24,376	26.7	2016-12-17
Vantage WA13	not recorded	Building	23,414	25.7	2024-12-19
Microsoft EAT02	Microsoft	Building	22,866	25.1	2022-06-20
Microsoft EAT03	Microsoft	Building	21,871	24.0	2023-05-16
Microsoft EAT04	Microsoft	Under construction	21,817	—	2023-05-16
Intergate Seattle East Building 3	Sabey	Building	18,895	20.7	2016-12-17
Intergate Seattle East Building 5	Sabey	Building	18,592	20.4	2016-12-17
Intergate Columbia B	Sabey Data Centers	Building	17,920	19.6	2016-12-17
Microsoft	Microsoft	Building	15,107	16.6	2019-07-25
Microsoft	Microsoft	Building	14,604	16.0	2019-07-25
Microsoft	Microsoft	Building	14,051	15.4	2019-07-25
Microsoft	Microsoft	Building	13,742	15.1	2019-07-25
Vantage WA11	not recorded	Building	13,697	15.0	2019-07-23
Microsoft	Microsoft	Building	13,326	14.6	2019-07-25
Microsoft	Microsoft	Building	13,326	14.6	2025-09-15
Intergate Columbia D	Sabey Data Centers	Building	12,544	13.8	2022-06-20
Vantage WA12	not recorded	Building	11,585	12.7	2019-07-23
Intergate Seattle East Building 4	Digital Realty	Building	10,854	11.9	2016-12-17
Microsoft	Microsoft	Building	10,777	11.8	2019-07-25
Centeris SH1 Colocation	not recorded	Building	10,757	11.8	2023-11-24
Microsoft	Microsoft	Building	10,408	11.4	2019-07-25
Intergate Seattle East Building 2	not recorded	Building	9,970	10.9	2016-12-17
Centersquare Lynnwood SE1	Centersquare	Building	9,705	10.6	2022-01-04
NTT Data Quincy	NTT	Building	9,268	10.2	2019-07-25
Intergate Seattle East Building 1	Sabey	Building	9,092	10.0	2016-12-17
Centeris SH2 Build-to-Suit	not recorded	Building	8,690	9.5	2023-11-24
The Seattle Times	H5 Data Centers	Building	4,514	5.0	2021-03-03
KOMO Plaza East	not recorded	Building	4,250	4.7	2021-03-03
Intergate Seattle West Building A	Sabey	Building	3,581	3.9	2016-12-17

“First mapped” is when OpenStreetMap recorded the facility, not when it was built — OpenStreetMap carries no construction dates. Mapped area means a building floor plate, campus boundary, or construction polygon according to the “Mapped as” column; those quantities are never added together. The megawatt column appears only for buildings and is their floor-area share of a reported national total, not a measurement.