Data center · Facility
ProposedQTS data center in Salem Township, Pennsylvania
Proposed Dec 8, 2025, in Luzerne County. Permit on record: Pennsylvania DEP, Jul 29, 2026.
Permit on record: Pennsylvania DEP, Jul 29, 2026. First seen Sep 23, 2026.
Where
Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
Exact site not public. Shown at township level.
- 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
4-3 Glenbrook Group Salem Township Data Center Campus (Salem 3)
0 miles away
Builds in Luzerne County
Published builds in the Kapwork Grow tracker, this one included. Published Nov 3, 2026.
Builds in Pennsylvania
Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.
U.S. data center construction
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
- ProposedCompute Atlas · Sep 12, 2026; Pennsylvania DEP · Jul 29, 2026
- Site area
- 1,700 acresKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Announced
- Dec 8, 2025Pennsylvania DEP · Jul 29, 2026
- Location
- Salem Township, Luzerne County, PennsylvaniaCompute Atlas · Sep 12, 2026; Pennsylvania DEP · Jul 29, 2026
- Location precision
- Street address reportedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Facility type
- ColocationKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Pennsylvania DEP review
- Permit applications under DEP reviewPennsylvania DEP · Jul 29, 2026
- Pennsylvania DEP permits on file
- 15Pennsylvania DEP · Jul 29, 2026
What the public record lacks: the megawatts, the building area, the investment, the jobs, the general contractor's name, the completion date 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
- · Pennsylvania DEP
Reported as announced
- · Compute Atlas
Reported as announced
- · Kapwork's date
First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker
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.
More builds
Same operator
In Pennsylvania
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- 2201, 2301, 2501, 2701, & 2901 Renaissance Blvd. Data Center (MLP Ventures)Pennsylvania
- 3200 Horizon Dr. Data Center (MLP Ventures)Pennsylvania
The Kapwork Grow tracker lists 108 published builds in Pennsylvania, as published Nov 3, 2026; these are the ones linked to this record.
Questions this page answers
Is QTS Salem Township Data Center Campus (Salem 2) under construction?
Who is building QTS Salem Township Data Center Campus (Salem 2)?
Which carriers serve QTS Salem Township Data Center Campus (Salem 2)?
How do contractors on QTS Salem Township Data Center Campus (Salem 2) get paid sooner?
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Sources, updates and data
Compute Atlas · Pennsylvania DEP · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30
Where this comes from
- Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)
Record qts-salem-township-luzerne-pa · As of Sep 12, 2026 - Times Leader (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Sep 12, 2026 - Pennsylvania DEP Data Center Permit Tracker record (state government data)
Record 10000008 · As of Jul 29, 2026 - Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)
Merged view of the sources here · snapshot Nov 2, 2026 - U.S. Census Bureau, Construction Spending (Value of Construction Put in Place, C30)
National data center spending · August 2026 · released Oct 1, 2026 - Kapwork Grow tracker
Counts, nearest build and first-seen dates (Kapwork's dates), published Nov 3, 2026. Tracker snapshot Nov 2, 2026; sources fetched: Compute Atlas Sep 24, 2026; Server Country Sep 24, 2026; Pennsylvania DEP Sep 24, 2026; EPA ECHO Sep 24, 2026; Texas Comptroller Sep 24, 2026; UVA DC-SENSE Sep 24, 2026; Public Evidence Project Sep 24, 2026.
What each source reports
- Compute Atlas: Proposed
- Pennsylvania DEP: Proposed, as “QTS Salem (QTS Data Centers)”
Updates
- Between Aug 15, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker. Kapwork's date
- Aug 22, 2026: Reported as announced. Compute Atlas
- Dec 8, 2025: Reported as announced. Pennsylvania DEP
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) · Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Data Center Permit Tracker (state government data). 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 megawatts, the building area, the investment, the jobs, the general contractor's name, the completion date 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 Salem Township Data Center Campus (Salem 2)”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/qts-salem-township-data-center-campus-salem-2-pa-dc_5debd1a06d60, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.
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