Westgate Industrial Park · Lane County, Oregon
80 N Danebo Avenue
An AI data center in Eugene, Oregon. GPU machines are built by hand in this building, stressed until they misbehave, and racked a few metres from the bench they were assembled on — on a grid that runs roughly 90% carbon-free.
- square feet
- 28,000square feetAcross suites at 80 N Danebo. Assembly, burn-in benches and the racks the machines run in, under one roof.
- 3-phase, 480V
- 800A3-phase, 480VService per suite in a 2025 concrete tilt-up building, 21–24 ft to the deck.
- carbon-free grid
- ~90%carbon-free gridThe Willamette Valley runs on hydro. That is the reason the machines are in Oregon and not in Texas.
- power and cooling
- N+1power and coolingSized so that one failure is a repair ticket rather than an outage, with engineers in the building.
Inside the building
One roof: assembly, burn-in, and the racks it runs in.
Most AI infrastructure is an abstraction with a billing page attached. This is a warehouse in west Eugene with the machines in it. If you are spending real money on hardware you will never physically touch, you are entitled to see the room.
The build floor
Benches, test rigs and the parts that feed them. A machine is assembled here by a person, not configured in a form and shipped from somewhere else.
Burn-in
Every build runs hard for 48 hours before anyone trusts it. Failures happen here, next to the spare parts, rather than three weeks into your training run.
The racks
The machine travels a few metres from bench to rack and starts serving. Same building, same people, same week.
Order to first token
Four steps, all of them in this building.
Nothing in this list happens in another state or another company. That is the whole argument for a building rather than a region code.
Parts land on Danebo
GPUs, boards and chassis are received at the dock and staged in the building. Nothing is drop-shipped from a contract manufacturer on another continent.
Assembled by hand at the bench
Each machine is built at a bench here by people whose names you can learn. Typical lead time from order to racked is six to eight weeks.
Burned in for 48 hours
Every build is stressed under load before it is trusted with anything. Machines that misbehave fail here, in a building with spare parts, not in production.
Racked a few metres away
The machine moves from the bench to the rack and starts serving. You own the hardware outright; the building operates it. Ship it to yourself whenever you want it.
Power and grid
The machines are here because the electricity is.
Every other consideration in siting compute — land, labour, tax, fibre — is downstream of what a megawatt-hour costs and where it came from. In the Willamette Valley it is cheap and it is mostly water.
- 800A, 3-phase, 480V
- Electrical service per suite, in a building put up in 2025 with that load in mind rather than retrofitted into an old one.
- N+1 power and cooling
- Sized so a single component failing is a repair ticket. The Willamette Valley climate means cooling is not a year-round fight.
- ~90% carbon-free
- Oregon's grid is hydro-heavy. Cheap, clean and stable power is the reason to put machines in Eugene instead of Texas or Northern Virginia.
- 24/7 on-site engineering
- People in the building who can walk to your machine. Not a ticket queue in a timezone eight hours away from your incident.
Photographs
Shot here. No stock, no renders.
Everything below was photographed inside 80 N Danebo. If a picture on this page looks like a press kit, it is because the building looks like that.
Glad you asked.
What people ask before
they put hardware in a building.
Come and look at it.
Tours are by appointment — it is a building full of other people's hardware, not a showroom. Tell us roughly what you are trying to run and we will find an hour.
80 N Danebo Ave
Eugene, Oregon 97402
