CyrusOne Quincy (PNW1) data center, Quincy, Washington

CyrusOne's PNW1 data center stands along D Street Northwest in Quincy, Grant County, Washington, a farming town that has become one of the country's best-known data center hubs. The Wenatchee World reported in October 2024 that the operating campus was nearing completion.

Quincy's data centers, owned by Microsoft, Sabey, Vantage, H5 Data Centers, CyrusOne, NTT Data and Oath, used 37% of the Grant County Public Utility District's power generation, the PUD says. Data centers pay 57% of all taxes collected in Quincy, according to state Rep. Alex Ybarra, and city tax revenue rose from $9.8 million in 2018 to $20 million in 2024, helping pay for a new high school, library, police station and hospital.

Grant County PUD is now near its maximum power load, and new data center construction has slowed. Its $260 million Quincy Transmission Expansion Plan would add six new transmission lines by 2029, including a 32-mile line from the Wanapum switchyard, and the PUD is using eminent domain against landowners who refused its offers.

"People say the data centers have done a lot of good for Quincy as far as our tax base, and we've got a new hospital," said homeowner Jacque Rasmussen, who turned down $7,400 for a strip of her land. "But now it's starting to impact people's homes," she said. Those landowners have asked the Grant County Superior Court to throw out the PUD's condemnation suit.