QTS: Project Marvel

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QTS: Project Marvel

Lot Size: 700 acres

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The Bessemer City Council has officially cleared the way for "Project Marvel," a massive 700-acre data center campus proposed by Logistic Land Investments LLC.

Despite vocal opposition from local residents and environmental groups regarding the project's scale and transparency, the approval grants the developers the green light to begin site preparation and construction on the 18-building hyperscale campus, which is expected to take roughly eight years to fully complete.

  • Update: Bessemer officials have announced that "Project Marvel" will move from its original proposed location to a new, adjacent site to address community pushback and infrastructure conflicts with the Northern Beltline. The developer, Logistic Land Investment LLC, is now acquiring an additional 900 acres to create larger residential buffers while maintaining the plan for an 18-building hyperscale campus.

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0.16 miles QTS: Marvel Expansion
10.80 miles Nebius: Birmingham, Alabama
Nebius is developing a major high-performance computing facility in Birmingham, Alabama, designated as BHM01. This site is being branded as an "AI Factory," specifically designed to support large-scale artificial intelligence workloads.
14.79 miles C Spire Birmingham
16.64 miles Lumen Birmingham 401 6th
16.70 miles DC BLOX Birmingham
The DC BLOX data center is built on the 27-acre, former Trinity Steel site in downtown Birmingham. The first phase which was built in 2019 has 31,000 sqft of space.
16.72 miles DC BLOX: BHM1-B
This facility will be part of DC Blox's Birmingham Campus in Alabama.
17.96 miles Southern Telecom Birmingham
18.03 miles Lumen Birmingham (Park Place)

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Proposed site for Bessemer data center in Alabama
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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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