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QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale)

QTS Phoenix 3 Campus is an AI data center campus developed by QTS Data Centers in Arizona, Glendale. 0.75 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Permitted · QTS Data Centers · Private land · WECC · Glendale, Arizona, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 0.75 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

53rd-largest announced of 102 tracked campuses50th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 608,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)
QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale) capacity claims
Source
Announced0.75 GW2023-01-01reportedcounty docket

Key facts

permitted

Lifecycle

0.75 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

QTS Data Centers

Developer

United States

Location

WECC

Grid

private land

Land

1

Facilities tracked

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

PHX3 Glendale filing / 16 buildings ~3M sq ft (reported)
DCD reports QTS filed plans for QTS PHX 3 in the Glendale area of Maricopa County as a 16-building campus of about 180,000 sq ft each (~3 million sq ft total) north of Camelback Road and west of Loop 303 along Cotton Lane, with a reported 29-acre substation. AZBEX similarly reports City of Glendale plans for a 16-building, nearly 3 MSF campus on land in the C|303 industrial park (DCD, May 28 2024; AZBEX, May 24 2024)
750 MW critical capacity / acreage / land cost (reported)
DCD states QTS's website lists the campus at 375 acres with 750 MW of critical capacity, and that QTS acquired the site in July 2022 for $255.3 million after submitting initial plans to Glendale in early 2023. AZBEX cites 391 acres and the same $255.3M 2022 purchase with planned power capacity of 750 MW; prefer treating 375 vs 391 acres as a reporting variance pending a primary QTS page snapshot (DCD, May 28 2024; AZBEX, May 24 2024)
Phasing / workforce framing (reported)
AZBEX reports the multi-phase project would begin with southern buildings and build out over several years with buildings developed in pairs. DCD quotes a QTS spokesperson (via BizJournal) on long-term Arizona partnership and hundreds of specialized contractors and IT professionals needed once the site is in operation (AZBEX, May 24 2024; DCD, May 28 2024)

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The story of QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale)
Announced capex
$255M
Land owner
First Industrial Realty Trust
Derived
Cost per MW
$340K/MW

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterArizona(149)

The deal

financier
Blackstone
utility
Arizona Public Service (APS) · Glendale/Loop 303 corridor; service agreement not confirmed.
developer
QTS Data Centers · Owned by Blackstone.
land owner
First Industrial Realty Trust · Sold the 375-acre Glendale parcel to QTS in July 2022 for $255.3M

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
WECC
Interconnection

On-site ~29-acre substation, 0.75 GW grid interconnect, Announced. Dedicated substation planned to serve the campus.

County water status: Extreme drought (D3) in Maricopa County, week of 2026-09-29 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

QTS Phoenix 3 Campus sits on private land in Arizona, Glendale. It connects to the WECC grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Land acquisition (375-acre parcel)
$255M. Purchased from First Industrial Realty Trust journalist report

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States

Facilities at this campus

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    land_owner: First Industrial Realty Trust
  3. Oct 2026
    Current: Permitted

Sources

65cc65ec-d466-4830-a24f-34926a4a9436 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

QTS Phoenix 3 Campus vs QTS Data Centers — Van Wert, Ohio Campus →QTS Phoenix 3 Campus vs Prince William Digital Gateway →QTS Phoenix 3 Campus vs Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta / QTS Fayetteville Campus →QTS Phoenix 3 Campus vs Compass Phoenix Goodyear Campus →QTS Phoenix 3 Campus vs Google Mesa Data Center →

Common questions

What is QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale)?
QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Glendale. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale) use?
QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale) has 0.75 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale)?
QTS Data Centers is recorded as a party to QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale) is permitted. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). QTS Phoenix 3 Campus (Glendale): AI data center campus record. Retrieved October 2, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/qts-phoenix-3-glendale

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