QTS: Suwanee 1 DC1

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QTS: Suwanee 1 DC1

Short Code: SUW1DC1
Year Built: 2000
Utility Provider: Georgia Power
Lot Size: 40 acres

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QTS Suwanee 1 DC1 is a 385,000 sq. ft. data center and office building at 300 Satellite Blvd NW, the first building on the QTS Suwanee 1 campus. It houses QTS's Operations Support Center. QTS bought the building from ITC^DeltaCom in October 2005.

Building:


  • Type: Tilt-up concrete structure with reinforced steel
  • Raised Floor: 48"
  • Office and Conference rooms are available

Power and Cooling:


  • 114,000 gallons of on-site diesel fuel to power generators if necessary with contracts to refuel
  • N+1 Chiller plant; Over Two (2) hundred 30 ton Lieberts provide air flow through raised floor space
  • Redundant piping systems for chilled fluid

Network Providers:


  • AT&T
  • CenturyLink
  • Charter
  • Cogent
  • Comcast
  • DeltaCom
  • Fiberlight
  • Level 3
  • One Ring
  • TW Telecom
  • Verizon/Verizon Business - Windstream
  • XO Communications
  • Zayo Group
  • QTS Metro Connect Service offers additional connectivity to providers in 56 Marietta (Carrier
    Hotel)

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300 Satellite Blvd NW
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0.11 miles QTS: Suwanee 1 Expansion
Suwanee 1 Expansion holds the future capacity QTS plans for its Suwanee 1 campus in Suwanee, Georgia, beyond the two existing buildings.
0.17 miles Server Farm Atlanta
Server Farm Atlanta at 305 Satellite Blvd was a former AMD data center originally commissioned in 2012 and designed to accommodate approximately 100,000 SF of additional data center space.
0.23 miles QTS: Suwanee 1 DC2
QTS Suwanee 1 DC2 is a 376,900 sq. ft. former Hewlett-Packard data center at 120 Satellite Blvd NW that QTS bought from DXC Technology in November 2022.
5.65 miles Tower PlusInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
5.87 miles Fiserv: Johns Creek
9.65 miles Flexential Atlanta-Norcross 1
The Norcross data center features a cloud node on-site.
9.78 miles Flexential Atlanta-Norcross 2
Flexential plans to expand its Atlanta presence through development of Atlanta – Norcross 2 at 2755 Northwoods Parkway in Norcross, Georgia. The project extends the company’s existing Norcross footprint and is designed to support enterprise and AI workloads with a targeted launch in the first half of 2028.
9.99 miles NTT DATA: Alpharetta (ex-UPS Windward)
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10.79 miles Strategic Datasphere: Alpharetta, Georgia
Strategic Datasphere owns a 165,000 sq ft, Tier IV-equivalent enterprise data center in Alpharetta, built in 1999 for a financial services company. The building is fully leased to two investment-grade tenants.
10.92 miles PureColo: Alpharetta (1001 Windward)
1001 Windward Concourse is a 184,553 sq ft data center in Alpharetta, built in the 1980s for Continental Telephone and later run by GE. PureColo, a Carrier Connect Data Solutions company, leased the whole building from Mapletree Industrial Trust in October 2026.
11.52 miles Flexential Atlanta-Alpharetta
Flexential's Alpharetta site is a former Peak 10 facility.
11.59 miles ADP: Alpharetta DC1
11.61 miles AT&T: Alpharetta (North Point)
11.61 miles Equinix Atlanta AT5
Former Verizon data center in Norcross that Equinix acquired in 2017. Equinix closed AT5 on June 30, 2024.
11.90 miles Stack: ATL01B
Planned second building on STACK's Alpharetta ATL01 campus: a two-story, 133,000 sq ft data center on a 6-acre parcel next to ATL01A on Webb Bridge Road.
11.97 miles Stack: ATL01A
STACK's original ATL01 building: a single-story, 105,000 sq ft data center at 3200 Webb Bridge Road in Alpharetta, built by T5 Data Centers as T5@Atlanta and acquired by STACK in 2019.
12.19 miles GI Partners: Alpharetta
This was a former Lincoln Rackhouse facility. In 2025, GI Partners paid $253M for 4905 North Point Parkway, a 185K SF data center, from Lincoln Rackhouse and Principal Asset Management.
12.27 miles Real Estate Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
12.27 miles 365 Alpharetta
Purpose-built in 1999 as SunGard's ATL-11650 single-tenant facility, this 77,300 sq ft Alpharetta data center is now operated by 365 Data Centers. Mapletree Industrial Trust bought the building in 2021.
12.33 miles AT&T: Alpharetta (Great Oaks Way)
12.81 miles Apotech: Atlanta 1
Apotech ATL-1 is an operational Tier III colocation facility in Alpharetta, in greater Atlanta. The 88,000 sq ft building is served by two Georgia Power substations.
13.35 miles Lumen Doraville 1
16.97 miles Alembic: Dunwoody (40 Perimeter Center)
16.97 miles Internap Atlanta: 40 Perimeter Center
Internap (now HorizonIQ) leased colocation space at 40 Perimeter Center East in Dunwoody from 2017. The building is now being renovated for a new operator.
16.98 miles Raeden: Dunwoody (40 Perimeter Center)
A former Coca-Cola enterprise data center at 40 Perimeter Center East in Dunwoody, north of Atlanta. Raeden is renovating the two-story, 88,000 sq ft building for a single AI tenant, Alembic Technologies.

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A Technician Rides a Bike Down a Data Center Aisle
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Front of Building and Parking Area
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Colocation Room at QTS Suwanee
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Map produced by TAG, the Technology Association of Georgia.
Map of Georgia's Data Centers
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Map produced by TAG, the Technology Association of Georgia.

Operating Company

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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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