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QTS Starts Preparation for $13bn UK data center

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 pitche...

October 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

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 ne...

August 20, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

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 ne...

August 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

Meta & QTS sign solar PPA in Oregon

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, ...

December 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

A report from Synergy Research Group found that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62 percent of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia tops this list while the Greater Beijing Area takes the second place, with both making up 22 percent of global hyp...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Blackstone claims a data center portfolio of $55bn

Investment management company Blackstone in its latest earnings call mentioned that it has more than $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development and over $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development. CEO Stephen Schwarzman said that "the consequences of AI are as...

July 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

County’s planning staff recommends denial of massive data center project again

The Prince William County staff have again recommended the denial of all three rezoning requests associated with the PW Digital Gateway data center project. This comes after two rejections of the rezoning requests by QTS and Compass in recent months. County staff said in a report, “At this po...

December 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

QTS acquires Netherlands-based data center management firm Zentrys

US data center firm QTS recently purchased Dutch data center management and operations company Zentrys. QTS intends to bring Zentrys employees on board over the next year and integrate the newly purchased company with its technology and processes. Chad Williams, CEO of QTS, said, "We welcome ...

November 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

QTS to expand into New Albany, Ohio

QTS has revealed plans to expand into New Albany, Ohio by developing new data center campuses covering over a million square feet and 200MW. These new campuses will be on Beech Road; two on one site, a 57-acre piece of property, and another two on a nearby 37-acre site and construction should ...

October 25, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

QTS to establish operations in York County, South Carolina

The South Carolina Office of the Governor confirmed that DC firm QTS will establish operations in York Country, marking the company’s entry into the state. This comes after news of a major data center project in York County dubbed ‘Project Cobra’ surfaced in June 2023.Gov. Henry McMaster celeb...

September 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the former...

August 16, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Blackstone and QTS to build data centers worth $8bn for "once in a generation" AI growth

The premier property fund of Blackstone, valued at $68 billion, is selling assets and preparing to invest billions in data centers. According to the Financial Times, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, or Breit, intends to invest $8 billion in the construction of new data centers through its ...

August 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

QTS acquires 400 acres in South Carolina's York County

A new campus for its data centers is being built by QTS on 400 acres of land in York County, South Carolina. Citing York County real estate documents, BizJournal reports that two entities linked with QTS Realty Trust LLC have acquired nearly 400 acres off S.C. Highway 274 for more than $11.2 m...

July 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville

Residents of Prince William County, Virginia, are attempting to sell their land to an unidentified data center developer. According to InsideNoVa, residents of Sanders Lane near Gainesville are attempting to sell their land to a data center developer. The residents appear to be attempting to r...

June 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

QTS Realty Secures a $800m Data Center Refinancing Contract

QTS Realty, owned by Blackstone, has refinanced four data center properties. Citigroup leads a consortium of four institutions that provided the loan. It will be used to refinance QTS' existing $667 million debt and provide the funds necessary to finance tenant build-outs.The refinancing is gi...

May 25, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

Virginia's Culpeper County Receive Permit Requests For Zoning of Two 4.46M Sq Ft Data Center Campuses

The Virginian county of Culpeper may soon see the construction of more than four million square feet of data centers. The Culpeper Town and County Councils have received rezoning requests that would enable the construction of approximately 17 buildings on two campuses on the town's border alon...

May 25, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

QTS begins work on Phoenix data center

QTS has begun construction work on its Phoenix, Arizona data center PHX2 DC5. The company reportedly broke ground on the facility in March; it is set to span 337,330 sq ft (31,339 sqm) on 85 acres, offering 42 MW of capacity. The company shared that on March 21, it hosted a groundbreaking eve...

May 18, 2023

QTS Data Centers

Poll in Northern Virginia reveals local opposition to data center development near national parks

A poll of Northern Virginia residents by the National Parks Conservation Association has found that the majority oppose the development of data centers near public land, including national parks. The survey polled 300 voters from several Northern Virginia jurisdictions.Of those polled, 77% sup...

May 15, 2023

Northern Virginia

Data Center Expansion in Spotsylvania

Spotsylvania County officials are planning to capitalize on data center building expansion. They are modifying the county's Comprehensive Plan as part of their efforts. The county Planning Commission scheduled data center-specific Comprehensive Plan amendment public hearings Wednesday night af...

May 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Fairfax County to look at new rules for data centers

According to a report by FFXNow, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is set to look into the environmental impact of data centers in the midst of its ongoing data center boom. This week, following a unanimously approved motion introduced by Board Chairman Jeff McKay, county staff were inst...

May 12, 2023

Northern Virginia

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