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Proposed (inferred) Van Wert County · OH

QTS Van Wert Campus

Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio

Approximate area

Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.

Status inferred from agw source doc (Sep 8, 2026). No filing states it in as many words.

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The location is approximate, so it is drawn as an area: a circle 500 metres around the point a directory gives. The directory does not say how that point was made, and the radius is our choice, not a measured error. Other campuses on record nearby are drawn around it.
Status
Proposed (inferred)
Owner
Likely QTS
Capacity
500 MW directory claim
Location known to
Approximate area
County
Van Wert County
State
Ohio
Electric utility
Not identified
Grid operator
PJM

Location and nearby

QTS Van Wert Campus is on record as proposed in Van Wert County, Ohio. A directory lists its capacity at 500 MW; no filing we hold states a figure. 5 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 1 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 2.1 mi away, measured between approximate points.

Nearest of each kind: Operating 13.1 mi Proposed 2.1 mi

Nearest campuses on record

What is on record

Owner

Likely QTS

A tracker names this operator and cites a source we have not read ourselves, so it is not traced to a record.

What the signal was
  1. cited document names the operator

    qts

    Source cited by AI GridWatch for QTS Van Wert Campus: https://mercercountyoutlook.net/2026/05/29/city-of-van-wert-and-qts-announce-data-center-campus-in-northwest-ohio/ · Aug 19, 2026

Filed by: QTS

Capacity
500 MW as reported by dce, not from a filing
Diesel generators
No air permit found in the records we collect
Water
Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
Electric utility
More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
Also recorded as
QTS · QTS Realty Trust, LLC · QTS Van Wert

How the status changed

  1. Proposed Jun 18, 2026 inferred

    DCE status 'proposed'

    dce tracker export (© DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.)

  2. Proposed Aug 19, 2026 inferred

    AI GridWatch stage/outcome: proposed|; source press

    Source cited by AI GridWatch for QTS Van Wert Campus: https://mercercountyoutlook.net/2026/05/29/city-of-van-wert-and-qts-announce-data-center-campus-in-northwest-ohio/

About this data

Evidence

Primary record

A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.

Location known to

Approximate area

Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.

Independent sources

2

cited filing, directory. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.

How we build this

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Where this comes from

3 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.

Document Role Row Date
Source cited by AI GridWatch for QTS Van Wert Campus: https://mercercountyoutlook.net/2026/05/29/city-of-van-wert-and-qts-announce-data-center-campus-in-northwest-ohio/ US-OH Context url=https://mercercountyoutlook.net/2026/05/29/city-of-van-wert-and-qts-announce-data-center-campus-in-northwest-ohio/ Aug 19, 2026 retrieved by us
agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US Context id=qts-van-wert-oh Aug 19, 2026 last changed on the server
dce tracker export (© DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.) US Primary slug=qts-van-wert-oh-pg Jun 18, 2026 last changed on the server

AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0. © DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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