According to Pat Boss of the Port of Quincy, there has been about $1.5 billion in new data center construction in Quincy since 2006, with two major data center projects in Grant County occurring recently with Microsoft and Yahoo!'s expansions.

Several new Data Centers projects are beginning construction at the Port of Quincy in Washington state as a result of new tax tax incentives for rural data center development that were passed by the Washington State Legislature in early 2010

Congressman Hastings recently visited the Port of Quincy's Intermodal Terminal on the BNSF mainline and was briefed about the new expedited Cold Train service (from Quincy to Chicago) by representatives of Rail Logistics and the Port of Quincy

At the Port of Quincy's June 21 event, local officials, state legislators, labor leaders, and data center executives were joined by Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire to celebrate the bill's passage.

As a result of the tax incentive recently approved by Washington state legislature to spur data center development in rural areas, Microsoft is now expanding its data center in Quincy.

A recent national study ranks Quincy, Washington as the least expensive small city in the West to open a factory for high-tech manufacturing such as precision metalwork, engineered plastics or carbon composites.

The Port of Quincy and Rail Logistics have a new shipping option for central Washington's fruit and produce