Data Center Campus
QTS: Phoenix 3 Glendale Campus
Campus at a Glance
QTS Phoenix 3 is a planned hyperscale campus in Glendale, Arizona, on 375 acres north of Camelback Road and west of Loop 303 along Cotton Lane; the buildings carry Litchfield Park mailing addresses on West Camelback Road.
QTS bought the land from Merit Partners in July 2022 for $255 million; Merit had planned a logistics park on the site. QTS's filed plan calls for 16 data center buildings of about 180,000 sq ft each, roughly 3 million sq ft in total. QTS's location page lists PHX3 DC1 (17408 W Camelback Rd), DC2 (17428), DC9 (17236), DC13 (17316) and DC14 (17336).
QTS says the campus will use its water-free, closed-loop cooling system.
Buildings
Sites on this Campus
| Site | Operator | Status | Operational | Building Size | Built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QTS: PHX3 DC1 | QTS Data Centers |
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— | — | 2027 |
| QTS: Glendale Expansion | QTS Data Centers |
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Map and Nearby Locations
QTS: Phoenix 3 Glendale Campus Power Growth Over Time
Operating Company
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.
History:
- On August 31, 2021 funds managed by Blackstone completed the acquisition of QTS Realty Trust.
- April 30, 2019: Acquired two operating data centers in Groningen and Eemshaven, Netherlands, for approximately $44 million.
- June 2015: QTS acquires Carpathis Hosting for $326 million. The transaction increases QTS's ability to serve IaaS and Government clients. Additionally the transaction provides a number of deployments within Equinix facilities.
- July 8, 2014: Acquired the former Chicago Sun-Times printing plant for conversion to a data center.
- June 30, 2014: Acquired the Princeton, New Jersey data center from McGraw Hill Financial.
- 2013: Went public (IPO) and started trading under the symbol QTS on the NYSE.
- 2010 Acquired their Richmond facility
- 2005 QTS acquired Atlanta Suwanee data center
- 2003: Company acquired its first data center in Overland Park, KS
- 2003: QTS was founded by Chad Williams with its first data center in Overland Park in Kansas