QTS Fort Worth 1 Data Center — Fort Worth, TX · Ask the Grid

Overview

Campus power: 70 MW; Critical IT Load · Reported
Status: Expanding; Operating and expanding; QTS reports 70 MW+ of critical campus capacity and a 200 MW gross campus planned potential.
Facility size: 260,000 sq ft; Campus
Project cost: $300.0M; Estimated construction cost in the cited project filing.
Compute profile: Colocation · Cloud; colocation · cloud hosting
Cooling design: Water in a closed-loop chilled-water system, with water-cooled chillers and cooling towers.; 2N-configured water-cooled chillers · Cooling towers · Fully automated ice-bank chilled-water thermal storage · Air-side economizers for free cooling

Project scope: QTS Fort Worth 1 is an operating and expanding data-center site at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard. QTS acquired the existing 260,000-square-foot data center in 2017.
Power and grid: QTS reports 70 MW+ of critical campus capacity for Fort Worth 1.
Compute role: QTS Fort Worth 1 DC1 is a purpose-built, carrier-neutral data center operated by QTS at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard. It provides colocation-oriented suites, cages, private and partial cabinets, bare-metal servers, public-cloud servers, connectivity, customer office space, and 24x7x365 on-site operations.
Cooling and environment: 2N-configured water-cooled chillers. Cooling towers. Fully automated ice-bank chilled-water thermal storage.

Existing FTW1 DC1

Existing FTW1 DC1 data center acquired by QTS from Health Care Service Corp. in 2017; the acquired facility was reported at 260,000 square feet. No actual online date was identified.

FTW1 DC1 Expansion - 2022 addition

Registered TABS project TABS2022015450 for additions to the existing data center, including data hall, tenant office, and generator yard. The permit specifies a two-story addition and gives a scheduled construction completion date; it does not establish commercial operation.

FTW1 DC1 Expansion - 2026 filing

Registered TABS project TABS2026022992 for a new two-story, 147,946-square-foot FTW1 DC1 data-center expansion with equipment yard. The filing lists an estimated cost of $300 million and scheduled construction dates; it does not provide an expected or actual commercial-operation date.

Power and grid

Capacity	Basis	Status	Scope	As of
70 MW	Critical IT Load	Reported	Campus	—
QTS reports 70 MW+ of critical campus capacity for Fort Worth 1.
200 MW	Campus Gross Power	Target	Campus	—
QTS reports 200 MW of gross campus planned potential; this is a planned potential figure, not an energized or contracted capacity.

Balancing authority: ERCOT
ISO / RTO: ERCOT
Substation: On-site substation with expansion capability; no public substation name was identified.
Backup generation: Generator yards are identified in the FTW1 DC1 Expansion and FTW1 DC2 project records, but no generator count or capacity was identified for this exact site.
Dockets: TABS2022015450 · TABS2022015521

Facility and development

Gross floor area (sq ft): 260,000
Site area (acres): 52
Construction: QTS Fort Worth 1 is an operating and expanding data-center site at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard. QTS acquired the existing 260,000-square-foot data center in 2017. A 168,770-square-foot, two-story addition was registered in 2022 with scheduled construction from May 1, 2022, to June 1, 2023. A separate 147,946-square-foot, two-story FTW1 DC1 expansion was registered on June 16, 2026, with scheduled construction from July 1, 2026, to October 1, 2027. The permit completion dates are construction schedules and are not treated as commercial-operation dates.
Land transaction: QTS acquired Health Care Service Corp.'s 260,000-square-foot data center at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard in 2017 for $50 million. The acquisition source describes the purchased campus as 53 acres, while QTS's current campus page reports a 52-acre campus footprint.
Facility class: Colocation · Cloud · Enterprise
Workloads: colocation · cloud hosting · bare-metal computing · public-cloud services · enterprise IT · financial-services workloads · healthcare workloads · technology-company workloads
Cooling systems: 2N-configured water-cooled chillers · Cooling towers · Fully automated ice-bank chilled-water thermal storage · Air-side economizers for free cooling
Cooling medium: Water in a closed-loop chilled-water system, with water-cooled chillers and cooling towers.
Water source: Municipal water for standard building needs, supplemented by reclaimed water at the Fort Worth facility to offset municipal-water demand; closed-loop cooling does not consume water once operational.
Fiber and connectivity: Carrier-neutral facility with diverse connectivity: on-net access from AT&T, Cogent, Lumen, OneSource Communications, PacketFabric, Spectrum, Visionary, and Zayo; PacketFabric SDN and online cross-connect ordering are available. The site has multiple connectivity providers and redundant meet-me rooms.
Operating context: QTS Fort Worth 1 DC1 is a purpose-built, carrier-neutral data center operated by QTS at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard. It provides colocation-oriented suites, cages, private and partial cabinets, bare-metal servers, public-cloud servers, connectivity, customer office space, and 24x7x365 on-site operations.
Emissions: No site-specific emissions inventory or emissions quantity was identified. The facility has N+1 generators with 96 hours of on-site fuel storage; QTS identifies diesel used in on-site backup generators and fugitive refrigerant emissions as Scope 1 emissions categories in its reporting methodology.
Environmental commitments: LEED Certified and Energy Star Certified Building status. · Use of closed-loop cooling that does not consume water for cooling once operational. · Participation in a Fort Worth reclaimed-water program to offset municipal-water demand. · On-site air-side economizers and dedicated electric-vehicle charging spaces as part of the facility's sustainability features.
Environmental impacts: Closed-loop cooling avoids operational cooling-water consumption, reducing demand on local water supplies compared with evaporative cooling. · The facility uses reclaimed water to offset demand for municipal water; non-cooling building uses such as plumbing, irrigation, landscaping, and drinking remain outside the zero-cooling-water claim.
Project cost (USD): 300,000,000
Tax abatements: A 10-year City of Fort Worth tax-abatement agreement approved in 2008 for Health Care Service Corporation was assigned to QTS Investment Properties Fort Worth, LLC in connection with the sale of the data-center facility at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard; the available record does not state the abatement's dollar value or remaining term. · No separate QTS-specific tax-abatement amount for the 14100 Park Vista Boulevard asset was identified.
Utility agreements: City of Fort Worth Standard Community Facilities Agreement CFA18-0168 / City Project 101966 for the QTS Data Center at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard, covering water, sewer, and paving improvements; the 2017 agreement assigns the developer responsibility for required utility installation or adjustment. · City of Fort Worth Standard Community Facilities Agreement CFA22-0051 / City Project 104062 for the QTS Data Center at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard, approved December 20, 2023, covering water, sewer, and paving improvements. The agreement states that the developer must provide or adjust utilities required to serve the project.
Permits and dockets: Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Architectural Barriers project TABS2022015450, QTS FTW1 DC1 Expansion, 14100 Park Vista Boulevard: start May 1, 2022; completion June 1, 2023; estimated cost $43,894,400; 168,770-square-foot addition to the existing data center. · Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Architectural Barriers project TABS2026022992, QTS FTW1 DC1 Expansion, 14100 Park Vista Boulevard: start July 1, 2026; completion October 1, 2027; estimated cost $300,000,000; 147,946-square-foot two-story expansion. · City of Fort Worth CFA18-0168 / City Project 101966, approved for the QTS Data Center water, sewer, and paving project at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard. · City of Fort Worth Contract 60627 / CFA22-0051 / City Project 104062 / IPRC22-0034, approved December 20, 2023, for water, sewer, and paving improvements at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard. · City of Fort Worth development activity report entry for QTS FTW1 DH 1 & 5 fit-out at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard, showing a $5,385,961 commercial remodel of the existing data center.
Transactions: In January 2017, QTS Realty Trust acquired the 14100 Park Vista Boulevard data center from Health Care Service Corporation for $50,000,000. The transaction was for the facility/campus and is not identified as a land-only purchase. · QTS disclosed or was reported to be planning a $130,000,000 expansion of the existing campus at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard, adding nearly 169,000 square feet; the reporting described this as an expansion investment rather than a completed sale transaction. · A 2026 TDLR filing records the current FTW1 DC1 expansion at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard with an estimated project cost of $300,000,000 and a July 1, 2026–October 1, 2027 schedule.
Community benefits: QTS states that the Fort Worth 1 campus is intended to support customer growth and that the company is committed to contributing to the growth and success of Texas communities; this is a general operator statement rather than a site-specific community-benefit commitment. · The exact-site 2024 expansion was privately funded and registered as an addition to the existing campus. The available evidence does not identify a quantified local-jobs commitment, charitable program, infrastructure contribution, or other site-specific public benefit.

Identity and campus: QTS Fort Worth 1
Also reported as QTS Fort Worth, FTW1, QTS FTW1 DC1.
Regulatory record: QTS Fort Worth 1 (FTW1 DC1) at 14100 Park Vista Boulevard has documented City of Fort Worth Community Facilities Agreements for water, sewer, and paving, including CFA18-0168 (2017) and CFA22-0051 (approved December 20, 2023). The site also has registered Texas Architectural Barriers projects for a 2022–2023 expansion and a 2026–2027 expansion. The 2026 filing identifies the project as privately funded on private land for private use. No public power-purchase agreement, electric interconnection docket, or site-specific utility-rate agreement was identified.

QTS Fort Worth 1

QTS Fort Worth 1

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Existing FTW1 DC1

FTW1 DC1 Expansion - 2022 addition

FTW1 DC1 Expansion - 2026 filing

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