Data Center Campus
QTS's Ashburn 3 campus (marketed as Ashburn-Shellhorn) sits on 24 acres on Shellhorn Road in Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia. It holds two purpose-built Freedom Standard data centers: ASH3 DC1 at 22291 Shellhorn Rd, completed in March 2021, and ASH3 DC2 at 22271 Shellhorn Rd, completed in September 2022. Each building has about 195,000 sq ft of white space, dual loading docks and oversized hallways for equipment moves; the campus adds EV charging and 24-hour security.
Buildings
| Site | Operator | Status | Operational | Building Size | Built |
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| QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn DC1 | QTS Data Centers |
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| QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn DC2 | QTS Data Centers |
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QTS Data Centers is a privately held data center company owned by funds managed by Blackstone, with corporate headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas. It provides colocation, custom data center and managed services, along with carrier-neutral connectivity across its platform.
QTS operates sites in the United States and in the Netherlands. The company expanded its footprint with acquisitions in Chicago and Princeton in 2014, added government and managed hosting capabilities with the Carpathia acquisition in 2015, and entered the Netherlands market in 2019. QTS became a public company in 2013 and was taken private in 2021.
May 25, 2020 QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn DC1
QTS has announced that it is fast tracking 42MW in Ashburn. Their construction blog post is below: QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn, our newest greenfield data center campus in the Ashburn, VA market has gotten underway in a hurry - with construction five weeks in and well ahead of schedule. The QTS...
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