Jurisdiction: US — Minnesota (Xcel / MISO)
348-acre parcel in Becker, Sherburne County, MN (former Xcel Sherco coal site). SUSPENDED May 2025 after MN eliminated the DC electricity sales-tax exemption; land retained.
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.
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Dimension
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Factor
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Contribution
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Cites
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Narrative
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| Capital | baseline | 40 | Amazon Becker Data Center (Sherco Site) | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Capital | staleness decay | +10 | Amazon Becker Data Center (Sherco Site) | Newest capital evidence is 2025-05-23 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Regulatory | staleness decay | -20 | Amazon Becker Data Center (Sherco Site) | Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-05-23 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Amazon Becker Data Center (Sherco Site) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Infrastructure | staleness decay | -20 | Amazon Becker Data Center (Sherco Site) | Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-05-23 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Amazon Becker Data Center (Sherco Site) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Amazon Becker Data Center (Sherco Site) | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Announcement | Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2024-11-11). |
| Schedule | hard cap | -18.5 | Amazon Becker Data Center (Sherco Site) | Hard cap "status_stalled" (health ≤ 35): project status is stalled. [binding] |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | Amazon Becker Data Center (Sherco Site) | Newest schedule evidence is 2024-11-11 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Announcement · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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Entity
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Role
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Ownership
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Committed capital
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| Xcel Energy | — | — | |
| Amazon Data Services | — | — |
Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.
MPR News · May 23, 2025 · backs: status
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/05/23/amazon-pulls-back-on-plans-for-large-data-center-in-becker
Data Center Dynamics · Nov 11, 2024 · backs: actual date
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amazon-buys-350-acre-parcel-in-becker-minnesota-for-data-center/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· MPR News · relevance 0.90
· KNSI Radio · relevance 0.90
· Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.90
Minnesota House of Representatives · relevance 0.70