No credible threat discovered, police say
A hoax bomb threat was made at QTS’ data center in Fayetteville County, Georgia.
According to The Citizen, the Fayetteville Police Department responded to a reported bomb threat on July 11. Police Captain David Cagle told The Citizen that “the threat was deemed not to be credible” after a thorough search.
DCD has reached out to QTS and the Fayetteville Police Department for further details about the supposed threat.
QTS, which has been owned by private equity firm Blackstone in 2021, is in the process of constructing its Fayetteville data center. Full build-out is targeted for 2032. The company revealed plans for a 6.6 million sq ft (613,160 sqm) data center campus in Fayetteville in 2022. At full build-out it will have 16 buildings on the 615-acre site.
A construction worker reportedly survived electrocution whilst working on-site in June.
Bomb threats against data centers are rare. There was a spate of threats made against data centers across the US in October 2021, but all were determined to be hoaxes. The motive remains unclear, but all threatened to detonate bombs in facilities unless a ransom was paid.
QTS currently operates two data centers in Georgia – a 278MW facility in Atlanta and a 50MW facility in Suwanee. The company is based primarily in the US, with a presence in 17 states. Its European footprint includes two data centers in the Netherlands and a planned 720MW facility in Cambois.
