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QTS: Salem Township, Pennsylvania

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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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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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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