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QTS: East Windsor 1 DC2

Site: QTS: East Windsor 1 DC1

Short Code: DC2

Year Planned: 2028

The proposed expansion in East Windsor involves a $600 million investment by QTS Data Centers to build a second, state-of-the-art facility on its existing Princeton-Hightstown Road campus.

Despite initial pushback from local residents worried about rising utility costs and noise pollution, the East Windsor Planning Board officially approved the application during a meeting in May 2026.

To secure approval, QTS agreed to strict environmental and financial conditions: the new facility will use a sustainable, water-saving closed-loop cooling system, and the company must pay for all associated infrastructure upgrades. Ultimately, the development is projected to bring massive benefits to the local community, creating roughly 400 construction jobs and contributing $2 million in annual tax revenue alongside $300,000 for the township’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

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Sites within 15 miles of QTS: East Windsor 1 DC2

Distance	Site	About
0.15 miles	QTS: East Windsor 1 DC1	QTS is expanding its data center campus in Princeton, New Jersey. The first phase of the project was topped off in November, 2024.
6.39 miles	DataBridge: Princeton NJ	AGILE Princeton is conveniently located, 45 minutes via car or train from both New York & Philadelphia and just 5 miles from the Princeton Junction train station.
6.46 miles	Princeton Nurseries Data Center	The owner of the Princeton Nurseries site in New Jersey is seeking to develop a 340,985 sq ft (31,678 sqm) data center. This data center is part of a larger redevelopment plan for the 160-acre plot.
6.70 miles	Lumen South Brunswick 1
13.45 miles	Northpoint: Keystone Trade Campus	NorthPoint Development has received approval to build a 2 million-square-foot data center campus within its Keystone Trade Center in Bucks County.
13.45 miles	Tower ThreeInterested in this information?Contact us	The planned facility, spanning 1 million square feet (92,905 square meters), will be operated as a data center by a tenant rather than by the property's owner, NorthPoint Development.
17.45 miles	Keystone NAP	Keystone’s facility is a repurposed former steel mill, which was converted into a data center building, was once the largest vertically integrated steel production site in the U.S.
17.92 miles	BNY Mellon Somerset
18.04 miles	CyrusOne Somerset	Phase 1 is 50,000 gross sqft at full build out the facility will have 330,00 gross sqft. The total building's sqft is 430,000sqft and sits on 22.5 acres
18.17 miles	Morgan Stanley Somerset
18.23 miles	Rackspace: Somerset NYC2
18.23 miles	Rackspace Belmont NYC2
18.48 miles	Rackspace Somerset NYC1	1.2 MW UPS Power Capacity N+N Redundancy
18.69 miles	Chirisa: Piscataway	Chirisa Technology Parks (CTP) is growing its New Jersey data center footprint. The company has purchased a substantial property in Piscataway, with plans to develop a major data center facility starting in 2024.
18.72 miles	Digital Fortress Piscataway
19.41 miles	DataBank Piscataway EWR2
19.49 miles	Open Data Centers Piscataway
19.57 miles	QTS: Piscataway 2	QTS planned for the expansion in 2022 with Additional 2 story, 50,000 sq. ft of space.
19.61 miles	Centersquare: Piscataway EWR3-B	The Piscataway facility was formerly known as NJ4.
19.61 miles	365 S Randolphville - Digital Realty
19.66 miles	QTS Piscataway	The site was acquired from Dupont Fabros in June 2016 for $125 million. It was previously known as "DuPont Fabros NJ1" when owned by Dupont.
19.68 miles	1115 Centennial Ave: Digital Realty
19.78 miles	3 Corporate - Digital Realty	3 Corporate Place contains approximately 135,000 square feet of state-of-the-art data center space and 25,000 square feet of ofﬁce space. It offers 26 MW of utility power capacity.
19.78 miles	Centersquare: Piscataway EWR3-A
19.93 miles	LexusNexis Edison NJ
19.93 miles	Iron Mountain New Jersey	Iron Mountain's site is in Edison, NJ. Iron Mountian acquired the site in January 2018 in a $1.34 Billion acquisition of IO Datacenter's operations in the United States which included 4 IO sites

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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.

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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