QTS: Cedar Rapids

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Iowa

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Midwest US

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QTS: Cedar Rapids

Year Planned: 2026

Lot Size: 612 acres

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QTS is developing a 612-acre data center campus along 76th Avenue SW within the Big Cedar Industrial Center. The project would have at least two phases of development – with each phase estimated to include one or more data center buildings each approximately 300,000-1.4 million square feet (27,870-130,065 sqm) in size.

Update: In October 2025, QTS and its partners topped out the three buildings at its new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The campus could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested. Ground has been broken on the first building. Timelines for delivery were not shared.

The Cedar Rapids City Council approved a series of tax breaks for the project – including a 20-year, 70 percent rebate of additional property taxes generated by each phase of the development. Under the tax deal, construction of the first phase has to commence within three years of the agreement and be completed within six; phase two needs to start within three years of the first phase’s completion.

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Sites within 15 miles of QTS: Cedar Rapids

Distance	Site	About
0.15 miles	QTS: Cedar DC2	This facility is part of QTS Data Centers' Cedar Rapids campus.
0.34 miles	QTS: Cedar DC3	This facility is part of QTS Data Centers' Cedar Rapids campus.
0.86 miles	QTS: Cedar DC4	This facility is part of QTS Data Centers' Cedar Rapids campus.
1.05 miles	QTS: Cedar DC5	This facility is part of QTS Data Centers' Cedar Rapids campus.
1.23 miles	QTS: Cedar DC6	This facility is part of QTS Data Centers' Cedar Rapids campus.
1.38 miles	QTS: Cedar DC7	This facility is part of QTS Data Centers' Cedar Rapids campus.
1.57 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Google is planning to develop a $576 million data center campus along 76th Avenue SW and Edgewood Road SW in the Big Cedar Industrial Center. The site will spread out over an area of 1,396 acres.
1.81 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This facility will be part of Google's Cedar Rapids campus in Iowa.
1.84 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This facility will be part of Google's Cedar Rapids campus in Iowa.
1.86 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This facility will be part of Google's Cedar Rapids campus in Iowa.
1.94 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This facility will be part of Google's Cedar Rapids campus in Iowa.
10.68 miles	Enseva Hiawatha
13.34 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Google is exploring plans to build up to six data centers near the Duane Arnold Energy Center (DAEC) in Linn County, Iowa.
13.34 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
13.95 miles	Ark: Cedar Rapids	The Involta data center in Marion, Iowa is a 19,000-square-foot state-of-the-art colocation facility with 10,000 square feet of conditioned data center space, with an additional 40,000 square feet of expansion potential.

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Proposed site for SNA LLC's Cedar Rapids Campus

Source: SNA LLC via Cedar Rapids City Council

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

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