Employees
612
Overview
QTS Data Centers is a hyperscale-focused colocation operator headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metro area and wholly owned by Blackstone since 2021, when the private equity firm's infrastructure arm and BREIT took the former NYSE-listed REIT private for roughly $10 billion. Founded in 2003 by Chad Williams in Overland Park, Kansas, QTS grew from a single Atlanta facility into one of the largest wholesale data center operators in North America, and Blackstone's ownership has accelerated a build-out aimed almost entirely at hyperscale cloud and AI training workloads.
The company operates roughly 28 campuses across the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, with flagship deployments in Northern Virginia, Dallas/Fort Worth, Atlanta, Hillsboro, Denver, and Manassas. Marquee sites include the Atlanta megacampus (about 278 MW on 99 acres) and Richmond (240 MW+), and the pipeline of announced expansions across Virginia, Phoenix, and Europe has made QTS one of the fastest-growing platforms in the sector under Blackstone's capital.
Longtime CEO and founder Chad Williams stepped back in April 2025, and QTS is now run by co-CEOs Tag Greason (previously chief growth officer) and David Robey (previously COO), with Jeff Berson as CFO. The customer base is concentrated in the largest cloud and AI hyperscalers, and the company markets itself primarily on speed of delivery and scale rather than retail colocation.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
Company-claimedAcquisitionAcquired by Blackstone
Key facts
Portfolio footprint
Largest facility
Other flagship sites
Co-CEOs (since April 2025)
Founding
Public listing history
Customer profile
Parent company
Data & sources
Web sources
5
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Partnerships
Every company QTS Data Centers has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
Most recent
- with Alliant Energyoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (7)
- Chad L. Williams Foundersecondary-verified
- Jeff Berson Chief Financial Officerreported, not verified
- Brent Bensten Chief Technology Officerreported, not verified
- Brian Herlihy Chief Development Officerreported, not verified
- Tag Greason Co-Chief Executive Officerreported, not verified
- David Robey Co-Chief Executive Officerreported, not verified
- Chad Williams Founder (stepped down as CEO April 2025)reported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Chad Williamssoleno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for QTS Data Centers.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
QTS Data Centers on the data-center map
Every verified data center QTS Data Centers operates that has a mapped coordinate (115 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
QTS Data Centers data centers (115)
- Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta / QTS Fayetteville CampusFayetteville · partially energized
- Prince William Digital GatewayGainesville · cancelled
- QTS Data Centers — Van Wert, Ohio CampusVan Wert · announced
- QTS Phoenix 3 CampusGlendale · permitted
- Ashburn 2Sterling · operating
- AugustaAugusta · operating
- BessemerBessemer · operating
- BlakelyBlakely · operating
- Cedar RapidsCedar Rapids · operating
- ChicagoChicago · operating
- ClintonClinton · operating
- DFW2 DC2Wilmer · under construction
- DFW2 DC3Wilmer · under construction
- DenverAurora · operating
- Eagle MountainEagle Mountain · operating
- East WindsorEast Windsor · operating
AI data centers QTS Data Centers operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
QTS Data Centers in third-party press
Mentioned on (1)
Registry pages whose text names QTS Data Centers.
People (1)
Financial state
- Employees
- 612as of 2019-01-01(Last public disclosure prior to Blackstone take-private (10-K, fiscal 2019); QTS has not disclosed headcount since going private and has grown materially since.)
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
9 total · 8 operating
Every company QTS Data Centers has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Alliant Energyoperating
All 9 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology—operating
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- QTS Data Centers x Lumen Technologies (AI Data Center Connectivity)withLumen Technologiestechnology—operating
- technology—operating
- technology—inferred
- technology—operating
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired by Blackstonefull acquisition
Timeline
Every recorded move in QTS Data Centers’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipQTS Data Centers x Alliant Energy (Wisconsin Renewable Energy)
2025-10-30QTS Data Centers and Alliant Energy announced an agreement to enable 750MW of renewable energy generation across Wisconsin. The partnership supports sustainable energy for data center operations while lowering costs for Alliant Energy customers through shared infrastructure investment.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 19, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (5)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-22
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-22
Sources by quality tier
- 4
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for QTS Data Centers.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning QTS Data Centers from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Chad Williams Unveils New AI Infrastructure Platform
Will AI Robots Build AI Data Centers?
Blackstone to launch publicly traded AI data center acquisition company - report
An important new chapter as Kyle Flynn departs Foot Locker and heads to QTS Data Centers
The body of AI: Power, minerals and machines
QTS invests €1.4 billion in Dutch data center
Top 10: Biggest Data Centres
Blackstone subsidiary plans $1.5B data center project in Ohio
Blackstone's data center gamble
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/qts-data-centers.md
- RSS feed: /companies/qts-data-centers/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/95a752c2-4d79-4b63-8612-e2ba430cc9fb
- Revision history: /companies/qts-data-centers/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious58/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place QTS Data Centers against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 20, 2026