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QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus
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QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus is a proposed data center in Van Wert, Ohio (Van Wert County), operated by QTS Data Centers. The public record puts it at announced May 29, 2026, a reported $10 billion investment.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- QTS Data Centers
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Van Wert, Van Wert County, OH
- Coordinates
- 40.8696, -84.5829 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- $10 billion
- Announced
- May 29, 2026
- Utility
- American Electric Power
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 200 permanent; 1,500 construction
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- May 29, 2026ProposedCity of Van Wert and QTS jointly announced the campus. Source: QTS Data Centers
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus in Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
If you live near this site and something is happening that this page does not show, that is worth telling us. Send us the document and it goes in the record with the source attached. For sites where opposition is already established, see every contested site we track.
Power and water
QTS says it will fund 100% of necessary energy infrastructure improvements at no cost to existing energy users, working with AEP.
QTS states the campus will use a closed-loop cooling system that eliminates water consumption for cooling operations.
Notes on the record
Announced May 29, 2026 with roughly $10 billion of projected capital investment and $200 million in projected tax revenue over 20 years, plus a $100,000 Vantage Career Center partnership and a community betterment fund. Acreage and building count were not stated in the announcement read here.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Land area
- How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Have one of these documents? Send it to us and we will add it to the record with attribution.
Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) · Fort Wayne · Google26 mi · Operating · Mixed reception
- Google Project BOSC (Lima) · Lima · Google26 mi · Permitted · Mixed reception
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus in Van Wert?
Nothing on record as of September 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus in Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus?
No lawsuit over QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of September 9, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus, and how big is it?
QTS Data Centers is the operator on record. We hold 36 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/qts-van-wert-oh.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/qts-van-wert-oh, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.City of Van Wert and QTS Announce Data Center Campus in Northwest Ohio · QTS Data Centers · retrieved September 9, 2026
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