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Reported geography
Source-reported location for QTS Aurora-Denver Data Center Campus (DEN1).
Exact source coordinates (provider label); this is not a parcel claim. Nearby source points are combined into one accessible target that opens this exact map scope. View these exact rows on the interactive map →
Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- QTS Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Aurora · Arapahoe County · Colorado
- Official metro area
- Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 177 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 30 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001195
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Xcel Energy (Public Service Company of Colorado)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 67 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- May 2022
Provider notes
Energy. Will become Xcel Energy's single largest customer at 177MW; QTS paying for new transmission line and substation
Water. Colorado data center water use under scrutiny; Xcel projects data center load growth requiring $22B infrastructure spend by 2040
Community. Neighbors raised concerns about power and water bills; Colorado PUC capped new data center generation at 6,000MW and requires 15-year contracts, security deposits, and early-exit fees
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- Reported water use: No row text or source label supports the new numeric water measure.
What the source record says
1160 N. Gun Club Rd, Aurora, CO 80018; eastern Aurora near E-470. Former JPMorgan data center site. Four-building campus on 67 acres. Colorado's first hyperscale facility at this scale. Coordinates based on Gun Club Rd address. Investment amount and specific job counts (previously $1B, 500 construction, 77 permanent) removed — not confirmed by cited sources. QTS Data Centers is owned by Blackstone (2021 take-private). As of 2026-07-08, one of the campus's three buildings is complete, a second is nearly finished, and site work has begun on the third. A July 2025 permit application seeks 98 additional diesel backup generators on top of the existing 40.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2022-05 · source-reported proposed
QTS added Denver Campus to its website; site at 1160 N. Gun Club Rd, Aurora (former JPMorgan data center site)
- 2024-01 · source-reported under construction
Construction underway; Holder Construction as general contractor; 2,713 tons of steel and 347,000 sq ft of decking reported
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- QTS plans Denver build-out at 177MW Aurora campus · Data Center Dynamics
- Denver Data Center Market Capturing Growing Interest · Mile High CRE
- Colorado's biggest data center wants to add another 98 diesel backup generators · Colorado Public Radio
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID qts-aurora-co. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001195
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Aurora, CO · Arapahoe (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: QTS Data Centers
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: May 2022
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2022-05 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2024-01 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 67 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 177 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Xcel Energy (Public Service Company of Colorado)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
Provider label: unknown.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-30
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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