QTS Data Centers

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

QTS Data Centers Data Center Map

QTS Data Centers Power Growth Over Time

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QTS Data Centers Locations

QTS: Richmond II DC2

Richmond

QTS Realty Trust is continuing its data center expansion at its Richmond Mega Data Center campus in Henrico after acquiring another 200 acres at the site. The company said that it planned to build up to 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sq m) of additional capacity.

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QTS: Vienna, Wisconsin

Madison

QTS is set to develop a new data center near Madison, Wisconsin, with plans for up to 15 buildings. The initial phase will include three to five buildings, each requiring an investment of $300-500 million.

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Pittsburgh

QTS Data Centers has acquired 1,700 acres in Salem Township, Pennsylvania, for a data center and AI infrastructure campus.

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QTS Richmond I

Richmond

QTS massive data center in Richmon sits on 110 acres with an additional 100 acres available for future development. There are 3 building on the campus with a total potential floor space of 550,000 square feet

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QTS: DFW2-DC1

Dallas

QTS is building a new data center campus outside Dallas, Texas. The company aims to develop a two-story, 413,725 sq ft (38,436 sqm) building in the Lancaster area of Dallas County.

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QTS: DeForest, Wisconsin

Madison

QTS Data Centers has officially withdrawn its proposal for a massive expansion plan near Madison, Wisconsin, effectively canceling the development of a new data center campus in the Village of DeForest.

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Richmond

QTS Richmond 4 (RIC4) Campus is a major data center expansion project by QTS, in eastern Henrico County (Sandston, VA), within the White Oak Technology Park area.

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QTS: Richmond I DC5

Richmond

QTS has expanded its Richmond I campus on Portugee Road with three two-story, 155,175-square-foot data center buildings, totaling 465,525 square feet of space, and this building is one of them.

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QTS Wichita

Kansas

Small carrier-neutral colocation facility in south Wichita serving regional enterprise and aerospace customers. Hardened concrete block and brick construction with 9,400 sq ft of data center footprint and 2,600 sq ft of raised floor.

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QTS: Blakely

Georgia

QTS’s proposed Project Blue Hole campus in Blakely, Georgia, is an early-stage hyperscale development off Martha Berry Highway that could reach 12 million sq ft across nine buildings with three substations, targeting full buildout by 2035

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QTS: Augusta 2

Georgia

QTS’s Augusta campus near Fort Gordon is a planned six-building hyperscale development on 170+ acres, backed by around $2B in investment, with updated local approvals in place and first delivery targeted as early as 2027.

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QTS: Augusta Campus

Georgia

Project Eisenhower is QTS's planned six-building, ~2.15M sq ft hyperscale campus on 170+ acres off Gordon Highway in Augusta, adjacent to Fort Eisenhower. Originally a 2022 T5 (200 MW) proposal, now developed by QTS via Eagle South LLC. Georgia Power serves the site; ~200 MW planned, phased from a first building targeted around 2027.

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QTS Hillsboro 1

Portland

QTS is constructing a massive datacenter on a 88 acre campus in Hillsboro. At full build out the campus will have five mega data centers making up more than one million square feet of data center capacity and more than 250MW of power capacity.

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QTS Fayetteville

Atlanta

QTS is building a huge data center campus in Fayetteville, Georgia. The site is located north of SR 54, east of Tyrone Road and Flat Creek Trail, and west of Veterans Parkway.

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QTS: FTW1-DC2

Dallas

QTS Data Centers is building a second data center adjacent to its first one near the Alliance Texas development. The two-story building is set to span 471,875 sq ft (43,840 sqm) and see $220 million invested in the project.

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QTS: Richmond I DC4

Richmond

QTS has expanded its Richmond I campus on Portugee Road with three two-story, 155,175-square-foot data center buildings, totaling 465,525 square feet of space, and this building is one of them.

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QTS: Richmond I DC6

Richmond

QTS has expanded its Richmond I campus on Portugee Road with three two-story, 155,175-square-foot data center buildings, totaling 465,525 square feet of space, and this building is one of them.

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QTS: Richmond II DC1

Richmond

QTS Realty Trust is continuing its data center expansion at its Richmond Mega Data Center campus in Henrico after acquiring another 200 acres at the site. The company said that it planned to build up to 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sq m) of additional capacity.

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QTS Irving DC3

Dallas

The QTS Irving 1 DC3 facility will provide our customers with an on-site substation and diverse campus fiber entrances with a redundant campus conduit system.

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QTS Miami

Miami

The QTS Miami data center rated to survive a category 5 hurricane, is above the 500-year flood level, and also has 3,000 sq. ft. of office space

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QTS Sacramento

Sacramento

Located less than 90 miles from San Francisco, this facility offers 46,000 sq. ft. of raised floor space and 9.0 megawatts (MW) of power capacity in seismically-neutral Sacramento.

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QTS Data Centers Data Center Photos See all

Under Construction at 22271 Broderick Drive in Ashburn
Source: QTS
Site Plan Diagram of QTS's Ashburn 1 Site
Source: QTS
Aerial View of QTS's Ashburn Data Center
Source: Baxtel
Aerial Rendering of QTS's Irving Data Center
Source: Walker Engineering
A Technician Rides a Bike Down a Data Center Aisle
Source: QTS
The semiconductor manufacturing facility 'bones' provides an excellent weight-bearing structure for the data center
Flooring Structure Exposed During Renovation
Source: Baxtel

The semiconductor manufacturing facility 'bones' provides an excellent weight-bearing structure for the data center

Front Door Entrance
Source: Baxtel
Pre-Construction Rendering of the Facility at 22271 Broderick Drive
Source: Baxtel
Aerial Rendering of QTS's Irving Data Center
Source: QTS
Entrance to the QTS Atlanta Metro Facility
Source: Baxtel
Cooling Tower on the Roof
Source: JE Dunn
Large Colocation Room
Source: JE Dunn
In a gasketed plate and frame heat exchanger, the fluids run counter-currently through the heat exchanger. The hot liquid normally enters through one of the upper connections and leaves through the...
Gasketed Plate and Frame Heat Exchanger
Source: Baxtel

In a gasketed plate and frame heat exchanger, the fluids run counter-currently through the heat exchanger. The hot liquid normally enters through one of the upper connections and leaves through the connection underneath. The cold liquid enters through one of the lower connections and leaves through the connection above.

As the fluids pass through the heat exchanger, heat is transferred from the hot media to the cold media.

Front of Building and Parking Area
Source: Baxtel
Cooling Infrastructure
Source: Baxtel
Colocation Room at QTS Suwanee
Source: Baxtel
QTS's Site in Sandston (Richmond)
Source: Baxtel
QTS Sacramento at 1100 N Market Blvd
Source: QTS
Outside of "The Vault"
Source: QTS
Drone photo of the Ashburn-Moran facility
Source: QTS
QTS data center at 95 Christopher Columbus Drive
Source: Baxtel
Drone shot of the facility on 9340 Godwin Drive
Source: Baxtel
The Manassas facility as construction was completing in February 2019
Source: Baxtel
QTS at 11234 NW 20th Street
Source: Baxtel
Overland is also the QTS headquarters
Source: Baxtel
Rendering of QTS Phoenix
Source: QTS
Mechanical Room
Source: QTS
The QTS Princeton Solar Array is a 14.1 Megawatt Photovoltaic System, one of the largest, privately owned, net metered photovoltaic systems in the Western Hemisphere. The Solar Array occupies appro...
QTS Princeton Solar Array is a 14.1 Megawatt Photovoltaic System
Source: Baxtel

The QTS Princeton Solar Array is a 14.1 Megawatt Photovoltaic System, one of the largest, privately owned, net metered photovoltaic systems in the Western Hemisphere. The Solar Array occupies approximately 50 acres of a 194 acre campus. The PV system contains over 57,000 solar modules, 24 power inverters and was constructed on a portion of the campus that was previously used for an agricultural purpose. The project site is surrounded on two sides by existing residential neighborhoods which resulted in the need to address both the visual and the physical impact of the extensive renewable energy facility on the adjacent community.

Front of the unassuming building
Source: Baxtel
QTS at 2805/2807 Mission College Blvd
Source: Baxtel
Conference Room
Source: Baxtel
Mechanicals
Source: Baxtel
Exterior of the Eemshaven facility
Source: Baxtel
QTS at Zernikelaan 16, north of Groningen
Source: Baxtel
Former Dupont Fabros Facility has Solar Array on the roof
Source: Baxtel
QTS expansion land called "Project Isaac" sits just South of QTS and West of the Facebook campus
Source: Baxtel
Rendering of QTS Hillsboro
Source: Baxtel
Rendering of the 5 building campus
Source: QTS
Piscataway Facility
Source: QTS
Rendering of building
Source: T5
View of the almost completed facility in 2020
Source: Baxtel
Rendering of facility
Source: Baxtel
Campus plan as of 2023
Source: Baxtel
QTS Prince William Digital Gateway Campus context map
Source: Baxtel
The site of Hourigan's proposed campus at Richmond, Virginia
Source: Google Map
Site of Project Eisenhower, Augusta, GA
Source: Google Maps
QTS acquired the planned Hermosa Ranch Tech Campus in Phoenix
Source: City of Avondale
QTS' Project Wind in Northumberland
Source: QTS
QTS' planned site at Mason Road in Dallas, Texas
Source: Google Maps
Proposed site for SNA LLC's Cedar Rapids Campus
Source: SNA LLC via Cedar Rapids City Council
Proposed site for Bessemer data center in Alabama
Source: Google Maps
QTS leased building B1 at New Century Commerce Center
Source: Van Trust Real Estate
QTS Salem Township site plan
Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10167216139010744&set=gm.1303677011615096&idorvanity=1244121534237311
Site map of QTS Richmond V Campus
Source: QTS | US Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District

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