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QTS: Salem Township, Pennsylvania

Site planned for 2028 and has expansions through 2033

Ownership: QTS Data Centers owns the building.

Lot Size: 1,700 acres

QTS Data Centers has acquired 1,700 acres in Salem Township, Pennsylvania, for a data center and AI infrastructure campus. Purchased for over $500 million via Salem Township Holdings LLC, the site is located west of Talen Energy’s Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant, adjacent to Amazon's planned 1,200-acre development. The property sits within the township’s Overlay Zone, permitting by-right data center use for a projected 12 buildings.

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Distance	Site	About
1.29 miles	Talen: Nautilus Cryptomine	In October 2024, Talen Energy acquired full ownership of Nautilus Cryptomine, a Bitcoin mining facility in Berwick, Pennsylvania, from TeraWulf.
1.69 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	The campus was first developed by Talen Energy's Cumulus division before being sold to Amazon Web Services.
9.77 miles	Project Hazelnut	Northpoint Development is planning a 1,283-acre, 15-building campus within Hazle Township's expansive 3,000-acre Humboldt North Industrial Park.
11.33 miles	West Hazleton Data Center	Land owned by One Trinity Real Estate Investments behind the Valmont Shopping Plaza in West Hazleton, Luzerne County, is being marketed as a potential data center site.
16.02 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	In 2025, Amazon Data Services purchased a 346-acre property in Kline Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, for $178 million.

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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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QTS Drops Plan for Data Center near Madison, Wisconsin

January 30, 2026 QTS Data Centers

QTS has backed off plans to develop a data center near Madison, Wisconsin, after pushback from local officials. The company has dropped plans for a campus in the Village of DeForest after the village announced its intention to deny an annexation request related to the project.“After individual...

QTS Starts Preparation for $13bn UK data center

October 10, 2025 QTS Data Centers

QTS has begun site work on a massive data center project in Northumberland, UK which could see an investment of up to £10 billion ($13.2bn) across 10 facilities if fully built out. This March, the project received outline planning permission from the local council. After initially being pitched...

QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

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...

Meta & QTS sign solar PPA in Oregon

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...