Investments in Unconsolidated Entity	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]
Investments in Unconsolidated Entity	6. Investments in Unconsolidated Entity During the three months ended March 31, 2019, QTS formed an unconsolidated entity with Alinda Capital Partners (“Alinda”), a premier infrastructure investment firm. QTS contributed a 118,000 square foot hyperscale data center under development in Manassas, Virginia to the entity. The facility, and the previously executed operating lease to a global cloud-based software company pursuant to a 10-year lease agreement, was contributed in exchange for cash and noncash consideration in the form of equity interest in the entity that was measured at fair value pursuant to Topic 820. The equity interest received and any amounts due from the unconsolidated entity are recorded within the Company’s consolidated balance sheet and totaled $44.2 million as of March 31, 2019. QTS and Alinda each own a 50% interest in the entity. As the Company is not the primary beneficiary of the arrangement but has the ability to exercise significant influence, the Company concluded that the investment should be accounted for as an unconsolidated entity using equity method investment accounting. As of March 31, 2019 the total assets of the entity were $130.7 million and the total debt outstanding was $52.4 million. Under the equity method, the Company’s cost of investment is adjusted for additional contributions to and distributions from the unconsolidated entity, as well as its share of equity in the earnings and losses of the unconsolidated entity. Generally, distributions of cash flows from operations and capital events are made to members of the unconsolidated entity in accordance with each member’s ownership percentages and the terms of the agreement, but also provides the Company with rights to preferential cash distributions as certain phases are completed and leased to the underlying tenant. Any differences between the cost of the Company’s investment in an unconsolidated affiliate and its underlying equity as reflected in the unconsolidated affiliate’s financial statements generally result from costs of the Company’s investment that are not reflected on the unconsolidated affiliate’s financial statements. Under the unconsolidated entity agreement, the Company will serve as the entity’s operating member, subject to authority and oversight of a board appointed by the Company and Alinda, and separately the Company will serve as manager and developer of the facility in exchange for management and development fees. The entity agreement includes various transfer restrictions and rights of first offer that will allow the Company to repurchase Alinda’s interest should Alinda wish to exit in the future.

6. Investments in Unconsolidated Entity

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, QTS formed an unconsolidated entity with Alinda Capital Partners (“Alinda”), a premier infrastructure investment firm. QTS contributed a 118,000 square foot hyperscale data center under development in Manassas, Virginia to the entity. The facility, and the previously executed operating lease to a global cloud-based software company pursuant to a 10-year lease agreement, was contributed in exchange for cash and noncash consideration in the form of equity interest in the entity that was measured at fair value pursuant to Topic 820. The equity interest received and any amounts due from the unconsolidated entity are recorded within the Company’s consolidated balance sheet and totaled $44.2 million as of March 31, 2019. QTS and Alinda each own a 50% interest in the entity. As the Company is not the primary beneficiary of the arrangement but has the ability to exercise significant influence, the Company concluded that the investment should be accounted for as an unconsolidated entity using equity method investment accounting. As of March 31, 2019 the total assets of the entity were $130.7 million and the total debt outstanding was $52.4 million.

Under the equity method, the Company’s cost of investment is adjusted for additional contributions to and distributions from the unconsolidated entity, as well as its share of equity in the earnings and losses of the unconsolidated entity. Generally, distributions of cash flows from operations and capital events are made to members of the unconsolidated entity in accordance with each member’s ownership percentages and the terms of the agreement, but also provides the Company with rights to preferential cash distributions as certain phases are completed and leased to the underlying tenant. Any differences between the cost of the Company’s investment in an unconsolidated affiliate and its underlying equity as reflected in the unconsolidated affiliate’s financial statements generally result from costs of the Company’s investment that are not reflected on the unconsolidated affiliate’s financial statements.

Under the unconsolidated entity agreement, the Company will serve as the entity’s operating member, subject to authority and oversight of a board appointed by the Company and Alinda, and separately the Company will serve as manager and developer of the facility in exchange for management and development fees. The entity agreement includes various transfer restrictions and rights of first offer that will allow the Company to repurchase Alinda’s interest should Alinda wish to exit in the future.