QTS Aurora-Denver Data Center Campus (DEN1)
QTS Data Centers · Aurora, CO · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- Under constructionSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 1160 N Gun Club Rd
- Coordinates
- 39.7113, -104.7241
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Xcel Energy (Public Service Company of Colorado)
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 177 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-30
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Proposed
QTS added Denver Campus to its website; site at 1160 N. Gun Club Rd, Aurora (former JPMorgan data center site)
Underlying source - Under construction
Construction underway; Holder Construction as general contractor; 2,713 tons of steel and 347,000 sq ft of decking reported
Underlying source
Source notes
1160 N. Gun Club Rd, Aurora, CO 80018; eastern Aurora near E-470. Former JPMorgan data center site. Four-building campus on 67 acres. Colorado's first hyperscale facility at this scale. Coordinates based on Gun Club Rd address. Investment amount and specific job counts (previously $1B, 500 construction, 77 permanent) removed — not confirmed by cited sources. QTS Data Centers is owned by Blackstone (2021 take-private). As of 2026-07-08, one of the campus's three buildings is complete, a second is nearly finished, and site work has begun on the third. A July 2025 permit application seeks 98 additional diesel backup generators on top of the existing 40.
Will become Xcel Energy's single largest customer at 177MW; QTS paying for new transmission line and substation
Sources and provenance
- QTS plans Denver build-out at 177MW Aurora campus · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Denver Data Center Market Capturing Growing Interest · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Colorado's biggest data center wants to add another 98 diesel backup generators · source retrieved 2026-09-30
- QTS Denver 1 (Aurora-Denver) campus · source retrieved 2026-10-19
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.