QTS: Van Wert Campus

Latest Podcast 8002 Mendon Rd

Under ConstructionProspective Expansion

New facility under constructionfacility with prospective expansion planned

QTS: Van Wert Campus

Site planned for 2029 and has expansions through 2032

Utility Provider: AEP Ohio

Ownership: QTS Data Centers owns the building.

Lot Size: 901 acres

QTS Data Centers, a Blackstone company, is developing a data center campus on the former Van Wert Mega Site, north of U.S. Route 30 on the east side of Van Wert. Thor Equities assembled the land from the Marsh Foundation, and QTS bought it in June 2026. The plan calls for seven buildings over five to six years. The first phase covers four buildings of about 650,000 square feet each, with the first building due to open in early 2029 and the full campus around 2032. Suffolk is the general contractor, and the construction workforce is expected to peak at about 5,500 a day after March 2028.

AEP Ohio will serve the campus from Norse, a new 345 kV substation off Stripe Road linked to the Maddox Creek station by about 2.5 miles of new line, planned for late 2028. QTS has asked AEP for more power beyond its first commitment, and AEP is studying the request. QTS will also pay about $25 million for road work at Bonnewitz Crossing and a Mendon Road overpass.

Site History

In October 2026, work began on the first phase.
In August 2026, AEP Ohio presented the Norse substation plan at public open houses.
In June 2026, QTS bought about 900 acres from Thor Equities affiliates and the Marsh Foundation for $149.7 million.
In May 2026, Van Wert City Council annexed and rezoned the site, and QTS was named as the end user.
In August 2025, Thor Equities bought the first 221 acres from the Marsh Foundation.

Map and Nearby Locations

8002 Mendon Rd

QTS Data Centers Sites

Nearby Facilities

QTS: Van Wert Campus Power Growth Over Time

Unlock full market data

Operational

Construction

Planned

Prospective

Land Bank

In Doubt

Currently Operational

across sites

Under Construction

sites currently building

Planned / Prospective

sites announced, but haven't started construction

Sites within 15 miles of QTS: Van Wert Campus

Distance	Site	About
11.47 miles	Microtronix: Ottoville	Microtronix Datacenter operates a colocation and hosting data center at 349 Wayne Street in Ottoville, Ohio.

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

Facilities

News See all

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...

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...