QTS Groningen

Latest Podcast Zernikelaan 16

Operational

Fully operational facility

Groningen

Province
Netherlands

Country
Western Europe

Region
Europe

Region
EMEA

Region

QTS Groningen

Total Power

SqFt

Gross Colocation Size

Cooling

• Water connection of 25 m3/hr (with back-up supply for at least 24 hours)
• 3 centrifugal chillers
• 72 cooling units
• Fully automated building management system providing control, monitoring and alarm of critical building functions
• Water-side economizers provide free cooling during low temperature ambient conditions

Map and Nearby Locations

Zernikelaan 16

QTS Data Centers Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of QTS Groningen

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	TCN Groningen
0.63 miles	Rekenhal CIT
1.02 miles	Bytesnet Groningen
3.46 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Google broke ground on its fourth Dutch data center campus in Westpoort, Netherlands in April 2024.
3.50 miles	NorthC: Groningen 1	The Groningen site is a former NLDC facility that was acquired in the merger between The Datacenter Group (TDCG) and NLDC.
3.52 miles	NorthC: Groningen 2
14.99 miles	Datacenter Groningen
18.43 miles	Central RidgeInterested in this information?Contact us
18.97 miles	QTS Eemshaven	Located in the Green Data Port of Eemshaven, home to the largest wind park on Dutch soil.
19.50 miles	TCN Eemshaven

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QTS at Zernikelaan 16, north of Groningen

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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.

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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October 10, 2025 QTS Data Centers

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August 20, 2025 QTS Data Centers

Data center firm QTS is expanding its European footprint with plans for a campus in Finland. The City of Forssa signed a preliminary agreement earlier this year with QTS for more than 100 hectares of land in Ratasmäki. "The interest of a large investor like Blackstone in Forssa is very good news....

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

August 13, 2025 QTS Data Centers

QTS has officially announced plans for a 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.Tag Greason and David Robey, co-CEOs of QTS, said: “From day one, we believe in being a good...

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December 06, 2024 QTS Data Centers

Avangrid and Portland General Electric (PGE) have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with QTS and Meta for energy from a 120MW solar energy project under construction in Morrow County, Oregon. This project will deliver energy to the PGE grid through the Green Future Impact (GFI) program, a...