QTS Salem Township
QTS Data Centers lists a data center at Salem, Pennsylvania 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.
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
- 1,700 acres
- third party estimate [11]
- 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
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last 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
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | QTS Data Centers | as stated by the source | October 6, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | 1,700 acres | third party estimate | [11] thecooldown.com | October 6, 2026 |
| 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 happened
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· Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
QTS Data Centers lists QTS Salem Township at Salem, Pennsylvania on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
The site
Where in Salem is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Salem, not a building, and the outline is Clarion County.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Running, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 19 other published records in Pennsylvania
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
- Salem, Clarion County, Pennsylvania
- 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.
Questions about this project
5 questions answered from the record
How big is QTS Salem Township?
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The record has one measure of its size: 1,700 acres (third party estimate, source). Its power capacity is not disclosed.
Who is building QTS Salem Township?
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QTS Data Centers is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does QTS Salem Township say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does QTS Salem Township stand today?
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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 Salem Township at Salem, Pennsylvania on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
What has Salem or Clarion County decided about it?
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No decision by Salem or Clarion County about data centers is on the record. The Clarion County page and the Pennsylvania scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Primary documents
- QTS Data Centers: All locations, QTS Data Centers, September 14, 2026
Reporting
- 96 Salem Twp. landowners complete historic 1,700-acre sale for major data center campus - Times Leader, Times Leader, March 18, 2026, query feed
- QTS submits new site, road plans for data center campus in Salem Twp. - The Citizens' Voice, The Citizens' Voice, March 27, 2026, query feed
- Some Salem Twp. residents upset about exclusion from data center buyout - The Citizens' Voice, The Citizens' Voice, March 25, 2026, query feed
- National developer spends $580 million on land for Salem Twp. data centers - The Citizens' Voice, The Citizens' Voice, March 17, 2026, query feed
- New Salem Twp. data center developer touts experience, environmental edge - The Citizens' Voice, The Citizens' Voice, March 18, 2026, query feed
- Salem Twp. planners delay data center vote, hear residents’ concerns - The Standard-Speaker, The Standard-Speaker, April 24, 2026, query feed
- Local nonprofit removed from Salem Township Data Center cat rescue - fox56.com, fox56.com, June 23, 2026, query feed
- Salem Twp. approves road vacations, final master plan for QTS Data Center campus - Times Leader, Times Leader, July 15, 2026, query feed
- Salem Twp. supervisors OK master plan, vacating some streets for data center - The Citizens' Voice, The Citizens' Voice, July 16, 2026, query feed
- Rescuers sound alarm as Pennsylvania data center project moves forward with cats still on site - The Cool Down, The Cool Down, July 7, 2026, query feed
- Public hearing set for turning over some Salem Twp. streets to data center - The Citizens' Voice, The Citizens' Voice, July 12, 2026, query feed
- Friends and Ferals removed from Salem Township data center properties while rescuing cats - WNEP, WNEP, June 24, 2026, query feed
3 more sources
- Rescue group races to save feral cats before demolition for proposed data center - local21news.com, local21news.com, June 3, 2026, query feed
- Salem Twp. planners delay data center vote, hear residents’ concerns - The Citizens' Voice, The Citizens' Voice, April 24, 2026, query feed
- Cat rescue questions treatment of ferals on Salem Twp. data center land - The Citizens' Voice, The Citizens' Voice, July 3, 2026, query feed
16 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "QTS Salem Township", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/qts-salem-township-pa, last verified October 6, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "QTS Salem Township", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/qts-salem-township-pa. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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For researchers
- Slug
- qts-salem-township-pa
- Status value
- operational
- Stage
- Running
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/pa/clarion-county/salem
- Coordinates
- 41.225282, -79.615019
- 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
- third_party_estimate
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last verified
- 2026-10-06