Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Quincy, WA has a population of about 8,500 — and 56 data centers.

That makes this small central Washington town the 11th largest data center market in the country.

We got a rare look inside Sabey's newest building on its Quincy campus, 15 years after the company first arrived. Rows of servers, cooling systems chilled by water, batteries the size of a person backing up the power — all to keep the internet running for banks, hospitals, airlines, and streaming services most of us use every day.

The campus is capped at 70 megawatts of power from the local utility. Sabey says demand is there for four more data halls — they're just waiting on the power to catch up.

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