Data Center Campus
QTS: Calatorao Campus
Campus at a Glance
QTS Calatorao, officially Proyecto Rhodes, is a planned hyperscale campus in sector SUI-4 "Campus Data Center" (the former Polígono Europa-Puerta Sur) at Calatorao, Zaragoza province, Aragon, Spain. The sector runs about 3.5 km along the south-east side of the A-2 motorway between km 281 and km 284.5, about 7 km by road from Calatorao village. Its 57 cadastral parcels total about 200 hectares.
Calanza Inmuebles S.L., a Blackstone-controlled company, is the promoter and landowner; QTS will operate the campus. The Gobierno de Aragón declared it an investment of regional interest in October 2024, gave the PIGA initial approval in August 2025, and gave definitive partial approval on 28 September 2026 for urbanization and site infrastructure. The eight phase-1 buildings still await environmental authorization from INAGA.
Phase 1 covers eight buildings on a 127.5-hectare plot, a stated €11.8 billion investment. A second phase of up to five more buildings brings the total to about €13.5 billion.
Buildings
Sites on this Campus
| Site | Operator | Status | Operational | Building Size | Built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QTS: Calatorao 1 | QTS Data Centers |
Planned
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— | — | 2028 |
| QTS: Calatorao Expansion | QTS Data Centers |
Land BankPlanned
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— | — | 2035 |
Map and Nearby Locations
QTS: Calatorao Campus Power Growth Over Time
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