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    },
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      "key": "hillsboro",
      "name": "Hillsboro OR",
      "state": "OR",
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      "grid": "WECC",
      "utility": "Portland General Electric",
      "note": "Washington County \u2014 BLS disclosure-suppressed for private NAICS 23; retained so the suppression is visible rather than silently backfilled from Multnomah, which is a different labor market",
      "counties_total": 1,
      "counties_used": 0,
      "counties_suppressed": [
        "41067"
      ],
      "as_of": "2026-01-01",
      "base_date": "2025-01-01",
      "yoy_basis": null,
      "available": false,
      "thin_base": false,
      "wage": null,
      "wage_yoy_pct": null,
      "wage_spread_pp": null,
      "emp": null,
      "emp_yoy_pct": null,
      "emp_spread_pp": null,
      "wage_cur": null,
      "emp_cur_total": null,
      "counties": [],
      "elec": {
        "as_of": "2026-01-01",
        "base_date": "2025-01-01",
        "available": true,
        "yoy_basis": "like_for_like",
        "wage": 2165.0,
        "wage_yoy_pct": 5.9,
        "wage_spread_pp": -0.8,
        "emp": 1743,
        "emp_yoy_pct": 2.2,
        "emp_spread_pp": -4.2,
        "wage_cur": 2165.0,
        "emp_cur_total": 1743,
        "counties_total": 1,
        "counties_used": 1,
        "counties_suppressed": [],
        "counties": [
          {
            "fips": "41067",
            "wage": 2165.0,
            "emp": 1743,
            "wage_yoy_pct": 5.9,
            "emp_yoy_pct": 2.2
          }
        ],
        "partial": false
      },
      "county_names": {
        "41067": "Washington County"
      },
      "sites": 0,
      "mw_disclosed": 0,
      "sites_mw_undisclosed": 0,
      "mw_construction": 0,
      "mw_planned": 0,
      "mw_secured": 0,
      "mw_operating": 0
    }
  ],
  "elec_national": {
    "wage": 1869.0,
    "wage_yoy_pct": 6.7,
    "emp": 802677,
    "emp_yoy_pct": 6.4,
    "as_of": "2026-01-01"
  },
  "as_of_curated": "2026-10-04",
  "note": "Tight core counties \u2014 the counties where data centers actually are, not the MSA. Broader metro definitions dilute the signal: when the method was chosen (2026-07, QCEW 2025Q4) Northern Virginia read +9.9% wage YoY on the tight Loudoun + Prince William definition vs +7.7% across the 11-county metro, because Arlington and Alexandria average in mature non-DC construction. Live values are in the market rows.",
  "coverage_note": "Competition MW is drawn from the /capacity tracker: 27 public companies plus 2 private builders (xAI, OpenAI / Stargate), hand-curated from filings. Private operators (CyrusOne, Vantage, Aligned, STACK, QTS, EdgeConneX) and hyperscaler leased space inside their shells are not tracked, and sites with undisclosed locations carry no market. MW under construction counts only sites tagged st=\"c\" -- operating, planned and secured MW are published separately, never folded in -- so treat it as a floor on what is actually being built, never a census."
}