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QTS Colorado Springs

QTS Data Centers lists a data center at Colorado Springs, Colorado among the sites it operates. It is running; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 1 source, 1 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.

What is known

Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.

Land
Not disclosed
Power it would draw
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Who leads it
QTS Data Centers
as stated by the source
Who would use it
Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs
Not disclosed
Tax each year
Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
How much power it needs Not disclosed
How much water it would use Not disclosed
How loud it would be Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs Not disclosed
Tax it would pay each year Not disclosed

The record's fields

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it QTS Data Centers as stated by the source September 17, 2026
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land Not disclosed
Where its power comes from Not disclosed
Grid connection Not disclosed
How it is cooled Not disclosed

The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.

Still not public, and where it would show up

The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.

  • Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
  • Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
  • Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
  • Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What was decided

Acts of El Paso County and Colorado Springs about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

DateWhoDecisionSource
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council adopted a proclamation aimed at reclaiming civility in politics following the Project Taurus hearing disruption. cpr.org
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs city council voted 7-2 to postpone the vote on Project Taurus from an earlier date to April 13, 2026. cpr.org
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs city council voted 7-2 to delay Project Taurus decision until April 13, 2027 yahoo.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council postponed Project Taurus data center decision for six months in a 7-2 vote koaa.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council postponed a data center vote for six months in a 7-2 vote koaa.com
Colorado Springs case by case Planning Commission denied first round of appeals in July 2026 kktv.com
27 earlier decisions on the county's rows
DateWhoDecisionSource
Colorado Springs case by case Original motion to hold decision in March failed kktv.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council voted 7-2 to postpone Project Taurus appeals decision until April 13, 2027 kktv.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council voted to postpone appeals decision on Project Taurus until April 13, 2027 krdo.com
Colorado Springs case by case City council voted 7-2 to postpone Project Taurus decision until April 2027 and said they have unanswered questions about power purchase agreement and noise kvor.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council voted 7-2 to delay final decision on Project Taurus data center until at least April. coloradosun.com
Colorado Springs case by case Three people taken into custody at Project Taurus data center special City Council meeting on September 17, 2026 for causing a disturbance yahoo.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council held public hearing on data center on Thursday gazette.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council voted 7-2 to postpone the final decision on Project Taurus until April 13, 2027 gazette.com
Colorado Springs case by case Three people were arrested at Project Taurus City Council meeting on September 17, 2026 kktv.com
Colorado Springs case by case Four people arrested during Project Taurus City Council meeting on September 17, 2026 krdo.com
Colorado Springs case by case Four people arrested at Project Taurus City Council meeting on September 17, 2026: Caleb Miller charged with second degree assault on peace officer after biting; Christianna Miller charged with obstructing a peace officer; Jacob Wilkinson charged with misdemeanor theft of body worn camera; Wendy Jerado charged with obstruction and megaphone disruption krdo.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs released data center development standards in recent months krdo.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council vote on Project Taurus data center appeal scheduled for Thursday, September 17, 2026 krdo.com
Colorado Springs case by case City council now hears second appeal of Project Taurus data center koaa.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council special meeting on Project Taurus scheduled for Thursday gazette.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs Utilities created a large load rate process in 2025 cpr.org
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs puts guardrails on new data centers axios.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs adopted Community First Data Center Standards coloradosprings.gov
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council set a special meeting for Project Taurus data center decision gazette.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council set a date for Project Taurus data center final hearing cpr.org
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs City Council will decide on Project Taurus data center cpr.org
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs Planning Commissioners rejected activists' attempt to stop a data center pikespeakbulletin.org
Colorado Springs case by case Planning Commission rejected appeals of proposed data center in Colorado Springs gazette.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs Planning Commission denied appeals in Project Taurus data center krdo.com
Colorado Springs case by case Colorado Springs Planning Commission rejected resident appeals against proposed artificial intelligence data center off Garden of the Gods Road in a 6-2 vote on Thursday coloradopolitics.com
Colorado Springs case by case Data center approval in Colorado Springs was appealed by residents cpr.org
Colorado Springs case by case Data center on Garden of the Gods Road administratively approved by Colorado Springs gazette.com

What happened

  1. · Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    QTS Data Centers lists QTS Colorado Springs at Colorado Springs, Colorado on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]

The full QTS Colorado Springs timeline, in order

The site

Where in Colorado Springs is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Colorado Springs, not a building, and the outline is El Paso County.

  • This record: Running, ringed
  • data center
  • Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
  • Smaller pins: 12 other published records in Colorado
Details
  • this record's location, ringed
  • parcel outline, from the county parcel record
  • city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
  • county boundary

The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.

Where
Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado
How exactly it is located
Town level, the center of the city
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.

Keep going

The county El Paso County 3 projects on the record. The state Data centers in Colorado Every Colorado project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

4 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

Who is building QTS Colorado Springs?

QTS Data Centers is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

How much power and water does QTS Colorado Springs say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does QTS Colorado Springs stand today?

It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, read on September 14, 2026: QTS Data Centers lists QTS Colorado Springs at Colorado Springs, Colorado on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]

What has Colorado Springs or El Paso County decided about it?

Colorado Springs (rated case by case): Colorado Springs City Council adopted a proclamation aimed at reclaiming civility in politics following the Project Taurus hearing disruption. (reported September 23, 2026, source); and Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs city council voted 7-2 to postpone the vote on Project Taurus from an earlier date to April 13, 2026. (reported September 23, 2026, source). 33 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. QTS Data Centers: All locations, QTS Data Centers, September 14, 2026

1 source on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "QTS Colorado Springs", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/qts-colorado-springs-co, last verified September 17, 2026.

Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page.

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Slug
qts-colorado-springs-co
Status value
operational
Stage
Running
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/co/el-paso-county/colorado-springs
Coordinates
38.8674342, -104.7595095
Location precision
city
Location source
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
Coordinate source
tigerweb city centroid
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 14, 2026
EPA registry id
Not disclosed
Use type values
not_disclosed
Tenancy value
not_disclosed
Cooling type value
not_disclosed
Capacity basis
not_disclosed
Water basis
not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
Acreage basis
Not disclosed
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows
Case by case
Published
2026-09-14
Last verified
2026-09-17