A QTS data center site in Utah was the subject of a hoax bomb threat, leading to the site being evacuated.

As reported by local press, including Fox and KUTV, the Utah County Sheriff's Office said one of the under-construction buildings at QTS’ Eagle Mountain campus on Friday (April 10) around 1pm local time.

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QTS told Fox that all employees were evacuated from the facility. The company said: "The safety and security of our employees and the surrounding community are our top priorities."

Officials confirmed nothing suspicious was found at the site and have since cleared the area.

The incident remains under investigation, though there are no ongoing safety concerns at this time.

Update: QTS provided the following statement to DCD: "Law enforcement investigated a reported bomb threat at our Eagle Mountain site on Friday, April 10. As a precautionary measure, all personnel were evacuated from the property. Law enforcement officials completed their search and issued the all clear. Regular business operations have resumed. The safety and security of our employees and the surrounding community remains our highest priority. We will continue working closely with local authorities as appropriate."

The threat comes the same weekend that a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and just days after a city councilor’s home in Indiana was shot more than a dozen times by an attacker who left a ‘No Data Center’ sign at the doorstep.

QTS is developing a campus adjacent to Meta’s campus in the Utah city, located south of Salt Lake City. Construction work on the site started in late 2024. The site could host up to six buildings across nearly 500 acres.

QTS was also the victim of a bomb hoax last year, after a threat was made against its in-development site in Fayetteville County, Georgia.

In October 2021, there was a spate of threats made against data centers across the US, but all were determined to be hoaxes. The motive remains unclear, but all threatened to detonate bombs in facilities unless a ransom was paid.

In 2021, Seth Aaron Pendley was sentenced to 10 years for plotting to blow up an Amazon data center in Northern Virginia.