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Who is QTS?
QTS (QTS Data Centers) is a provider of hybrid colocation and data center infrastructure services for enterprises, hyperscale cloud platforms, and public sector organizations.
- Colocation data center services across multiple U.S. campuses.
- Hybrid IT and connectivity solutions integrating on-premises (on-prem), cloud, and network providers.
- Hyperscale data center capacity for large cloud and content platforms.
- Interconnection services, including carrier-neutral connectivity and cloud on-ramps (network and connectivity).
- Data center facility management, compliance, and operational support services.
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More About QTS
QTS Data Centers operates multi-tenant colocation and hyperscale data centers that support enterprise, hyperscaler, and government workloads, with an emphasis on power, cooling, physical security, and connectivity as core infrastructure services. Organizations use QTS facilities to host production applications, Disaster Recovery (DR) environments, data platforms, and latency-sensitive services that require predictable performance and compliance-ready environments.
The company positions its services around hybrid IT, where customers combine QTS colocation with public cloud platforms and private infrastructure. This approach enables architectures that place compute, storage, and networking resources in QTS data centers with direct, high-bandwidth connectivity (network and connectivity) to cloud providers and network carriers. Customers typically deploy racks, cages, or suites for their own servers and storage, while QTS provides facility-level services such as power delivery, redundant cooling, physical access control, and on-site operations support.
QTS environments commonly integrate with enterprise network architectures using carrier-neutral meet-me rooms, cross-connects, and internet exchanges. The company supports standard data center networking constructs, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Ethernet services from carriers, and private connectivity options for access to major cloud platforms. Customers can build hub-and-spoke, mesh, or regional edge architectures with QTS sites serving as aggregation points for users, branch locations, and cloud services.
Compared with generic hosting or single-cloud deployments, QTS targets use cases where organizations want dedicated physical infrastructure, control over hardware selection, and direct multi-cloud or multi-network connectivity in purpose-built facilities. This includes enterprise IT consolidation into fewer, larger data centers; regulatory or compliance-driven workloads; and hyperscaler or content platforms that require large-scale power and space commitments with predictable expansion paths.
In directory and taxonomy terms, QTS fits into categories such as colocation data centers, hyperscale data center capacity, hybrid IT enablement, and network and cloud interconnection services. Its offerings align with infrastructure hosting and connectivity rather than application-layer software, with an emphasis on physical data center services, hybrid architectures, and carrier-neutral interconnection options for enterprise and institutional customers.
Our description of QTS. Updated December 2025.
