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Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
Apple Maiden Data Center

Apple Maiden Data Center

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — North Carolina (Duke Energy)

Maiden, Catawba County, North Carolina. Apple's iCloud data center; supported by ~244M kWh/yr renewable.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

52 /100
52/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

55 /100
55/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

50 /100
50/100

Capital

50 /100
50/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

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.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Apple Maiden Data Center No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 Apple Maiden Data Center Newest capital evidence is 2018-04-09 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Apple Maiden Data Center No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 Apple Maiden Data Center Newest infrastructure evidence is 2018-04-09 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 Apple Maiden Data Center No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Apple Maiden Data Center Newest regulatory evidence is 2018-04-09 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 Apple Maiden Data Center No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Apple Maiden Data Center Newest schedule evidence is 2018-04-09 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

No milestones recorded for this project yet.

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Apple
Owner

Sources & citations

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.

  1. Apple Newsroom · Apr 9, 2018 · backs: status

    https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/04/apple-now-globally-powered-by-100-percent-renewable-energy/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Apple Newsroom