Data Center Campus
QTS: York County, South Carolina
Campus at a Glance
QTS Data Centers is developing a nine-building hyperscale campus on roughly 400 acres near Hands Mill Highway and Campbell Road in the Clover area of York County, north of Rock Hill and just south of Lake Wylie. The company acquired the land in 2023 (originally zoned industrial) for about $11.2 million under the codename "Project Cobra," and describes the buildout as an approximately $8 billion investment.
Construction began in 2025. Phase 1 consists of four buildings on about 109 acres, with the first building expected to be operational by 2028. A second round of construction is slated to begin in 2027 so the phases overlap; Phases 2 and 3 add five more buildings on a timeline still being determined.
The campus uses a closed-loop cooling system that, after an initial fill of roughly 600,000 gallons, recirculates the same water for the life of the system rather than continuously consuming it. Power is delivered through York Electric Cooperative, with wholesale supply arranged via Central Electric Power Cooperative from the Duke Energy balancing authority serving the area. QTS does not publicly disclose the campus's power capacity; industry reporting has described it as hundreds of megawatts. At full buildout QTS expects roughly 200 permanent on-site jobs plus about 1,000 construction jobs.
Buildings
Sites on this Campus
| Site | Operator | Status | Operational | Building Size | Built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QTS: CLT1 DC1 | QTS Data Centers |
Under Construction
|
— | — | 2028 |
| QTS: CLT1 DC2 | QTS Data Centers |
Under Construction
|
— | — | 2028 |
| QTS: CLT1 DC3 | QTS Data Centers |
Planned
|
— | — | 2028 |
| QTS: CLT1 DC4 | QTS Data Centers |
Planned
|
— | — | 2028 |
| QTS: CLT1 DC5 | QTS Data Centers |
Planned
|
— | — | 2029 |
| QTS: CLT1 DC6 | QTS Data Centers |
Planned
|
— | — | 2029 |
| QTS: CLT1 DC7 | QTS Data Centers |
Planned
|
— | — | 2030 |
| QTS: CLT1 DC8 | QTS Data Centers |
Planned
|
— | — | 2030 |
| QTS: CLT1 DC9 | QTS Data Centers |
Planned
|
— | — | 2031 |
Map and Nearby Locations
QTS: York County, South Carolina 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