QTS: Calatorao, Zaragoza

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QTS: Calatorao, Zaragoza

Year Planned: 2028

Lot Size: 554 acres

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QTS: Calatorao Expansion

Blackstone is extending its data center presence into Spain with a major campus in Aragon, managed by its QTS division. The company plans to invest €7.5 billion ($8.2 billion) in the project, tentatively named Project Rodes, situated on a 224-hectare site in Calatorao, a town in Zaragoza province.

Approximately half of the site will be developed initially, with an additional €7.5 billion earmarked for the subsequent development of the remaining portion. QTS, a Blackstone subsidiary, will oversee the site’s operations. Construction is expected to begin in Q2 2026.

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Sites within 15 miles of QTS: Calatorao, Zaragoza

Distance	Site	About
0.14 miles	QTS: Calatorao Expansion
10.31 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Microsoft plans to build a new data center campus in La Muela to the west of Zaragoza, Spain.
12.96 miles	Box2bit: Proyecto Ebro	Box2Bit is investing €3.4 billion ($3.69 billion) in Proyecto Ebro, a new data center at the Entreviñas industrial estate in Cariñena, southwest of Zaragoza, Spain’s Aragon region.
16.82 miles	Forestalia: Botorrita Expansion
16.82 miles	Forestalia: DCM Dédalo (Botorrita)	The Spanish energy leader Forestalia is significantly expanding its portfolio by entering the high-tech infrastructure sector with the launch of the Búfalo Project. T
17.00 miles	Forestalia: Alfamén Expansion
17.00 miles	Forestalia: DCM Blue (Alfamén)	The Spanish energy leader Forestalia is significantly expanding its portfolio by entering the high-tech infrastructure sector with the launch of the Búfalo Project.
18.26 miles	Forestalia: DCM Data (Magallón)	The Spanish energy leader Forestalia is significantly expanding its portfolio by entering the high-tech infrastructure sector with the launch of the Búfalo Project.
18.26 miles	Forestalia: Magallón Expansion

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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.

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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

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