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QTS data center in New Albany, Ohio

Updated Nov 3, 2026Sources: Compute Atlas; Server Country; Kapwork Grow tracker

Announced Dec 2023, in Licking County. No permit on record yet.

No permit on record yet. First seen Aug 15, 2026.

Where

New Albany, Licking County, Ohio.

Exact site not public. Shown at township level.

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New AlbanyLicking County
Reported capacity
144MW
Planned, as Compute Atlas (Jul 18, 2026) reports it. 1,000,000 square feet, per Kapwork Grow tracker. May be planned, not energised, capacity.
Work it brings
Electrical, mechanical, low-voltage, site, fiber
The trades a data center build hires, from the site work to the last mile of fiber.
Who bills here
QTS
The operator, per Kapwork Grow tracker. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.

  • Nearest other build

    QTS New Albany 2

    0.6 miles away

  • Builds in Licking County

    8

    Published builds in the Kapwork Grow tracker, this one included. Published Nov 3, 2026.

  • Builds in Ohio

    63

    Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.

  • U.S. data center construction

    $84.95B a year

    August 2026, seasonally adjusted annual rate, preliminary. Up 73.2% from $49.05B in August 2025; 63.3% of private office construction. U.S. Census Bureau, C30, released Oct 1, 2026.

What this means for you

Same customers, bigger invoices.

The electrical, mechanical and fiber work on this campus bills QTS, its GC and the carriers you already know. Certify the invoices behind it, and funders compete to fund them.

An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.

Who your invoice goes to

  • QTSOperator
  • General contractorNot named yet
  • CarriersNot named yet
  • UtilityNot named yet

Key facts

Stage
ApprovedCompute Atlas · Jul 18, 2026
Reported capacity
144 MWCompute Atlas · Jul 18, 2026
Capacity as the sources range
144 to 222 MWCompute Atlas · Jul 18, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Reported building area
1,000,000 sq ftKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Site area
161 acresKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported investment
$1.5BKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Announced
Dec 2023Compute Atlas · Jul 18, 2026
Construction start reported
Dec 2023Compute Atlas · Jul 18, 2026
Expected completion
Mar 2025Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location
New Albany, Licking County, OhioCompute Atlas · Jul 18, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location precision
Site footprint confirmedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Facility type
ColocationKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Incentives reported
New Albany Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) property-tax agreement (City of New Albany / Franklin County)Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026

What the public record lacks: the jobs, the general contractor's name and the utility.

Who's involved

Operator
QTSKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
General contractor
Not named in a public record yet
Carriers
Appear here as the records name them

How far along it is

  1. · Compute Atlas

    Announced

  2. · Compute Atlas

    Construction start

  3. · Server Country

    Expected completion

  4. · Kapwork's date

    First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot)

  5. · Kapwork's date

    Stage approved first seen by Kapwork

  6. Date not reported · Server Country

    Expected completion reported

  7. Date not reported · Server Country

    Construction start reported

  8. Date not reported · Server Country

    Reported as announced

Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred. Dates marked Kapwork's date come from the tracker's own snapshots, not from the sources.

Questions this page answers

Is QTS New Albany III under construction?
No permit record shows it yet, so this page prints it as announced. Compute Atlas (Jul 18, 2026) reports it as approved. The sources disagree: Compute Atlas reports under construction, Compute Atlas reports under construction and Server Country reports under construction.
Who is building QTS New Albany III?
QTS is the operator. No public record names the general contractor yet. It shows here the day one does.
When is QTS New Albany III expected to finish?
Server Country reports expected completion in Mar 2025. That is a reported target, not a schedule.
Which carriers serve QTS New Albany III?
No public record names them yet. They show here when a filing does.
How do contractors on QTS New Albany III get paid sooner?
The owner pays the general contractor, and the general contractor pays its subcontractors. Once your customer approves your invoice, certify it with Kapwork. Funders compete to fund it, so you don't wait for the payment date. Free for businesses. Kapwork doesn't lend and doesn't contact your customer.

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Sources, updates and data

Compute Atlas · Server Country · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30

Where this comes from

What each source reports

  • Compute Atlas: Under construction, 144 MW, as “QTS New Albany 1”
  • Compute Atlas: Under construction
  • Compute Atlas: Approved, as “QTS New Albany IV”
  • Server Country: Under construction, 222 MW, as “QTS New Albany Campus”

Updates

  • Date not reported: Reported as announced. Server Country
  • Date not reported: Construction start reported. Server Country
  • Date not reported: Expected completion reported. Server Country
  • Between Aug 15, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026: Stage approved first seen by Kapwork. Kapwork's date
  • Aug 15, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot). Kapwork's date
  • Mar 2025: Expected completion. Server Country
  • Dec 2023: Construction start. Compute Atlas
  • Dec 2023: Announced. Compute Atlas

Limitations and interpretation

  • This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
  • Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0) · Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
  • An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
  • Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.

“Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.

Nearest build: Haversine great-circle distance on the tracker latitude and longitude, in statute miles, rounded to 0.1. First-seen dates: first_seen: the earliest committed snapshot of data/dcfo.sqlite holding any of the facility's source keys (source:source_id), narrowed to the nightly run day by the alert sender's facility_new events when they are available. status_first_seen: the start of the unbroken run of snapshots, ending at this one, in which a facility sharing a source key had the current status, narrowed by the latest status_changed event to that status. Dates are Kapwork's, not the sources'.

What we don't know yet

  • The jobs, the general contractor's name and the utility.
  • The carriers that serve the campus.
  • How the operator and its GC pay their contractors: portal, terms, days to pay.

Spot an error? Tell us

Cite: Kapwork Grow, “QTS New Albany III”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/qts-new-albany-iii-oh-dc_f243019896bb, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.

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