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AREP PowerHouse Grand Prairie

AREP PowerHouse Grand Prairie

Planned
Probable

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

768-acre campus just outside Grand Prairie in northern Ellis County, Texas, between Dallas and Fort Worth, north of Route 67 near Midlothian (PR + DCD + Bisnow). Discrepancy: company project page lists "Grand Prairie" / 810 acres / 28 buildings across four phases / Q4 2026–Q1 2027 delivery, versus PR's 768 acres / 24 buildings / three phases / May 2026 first-building energization. No verified coordinates.

Capacity
1,800 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

51 /100
51/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

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 AREP PowerHouse Grand Prairie No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 AREP PowerHouse Grand Prairie Newest capital evidence is 2025-02-25 (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 AREP PowerHouse Grand Prairie Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-02-25 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 AREP PowerHouse Grand Prairie No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 AREP PowerHouse Grand Prairie Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-02-25 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 AREP PowerHouse Grand Prairie No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 AREP PowerHouse Grand Prairie 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 (2025-02-25).
Schedule staleness decay -25 AREP PowerHouse Grand Prairie Newest schedule evidence is 2025-02-25 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Expected
    1 revision

    Groundbreaking · Expected:

  2. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  3. Energization

    Expected
    1 revision

    Energization · Expected:

  4. Utility Approval

    Expected

    Utility approval

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
ERCOT
Utility Provider
PowerHouse Data Centers
Developer
American Real Estate Partners (AREP)
Owner
Provident Data Centers
Developer

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. PowerHouse Data Centers · Feb 25, 2025 · backs: actual date, capacity mw, expected date, status

    https://www.powerhousedata.com/news/powerhouse-and-provident-rewrite-the-data-center-playbook-with-new-texas-hyperscale-campus

  2. Bisnow · Jan 8, 2025 · backs: expected date

    https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/data-center/provident-powerhouse-partner-on-768-acre-texas-data-center-campus-127465

Signals

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

  1. · Data Center Dynamics

  2. · PowerHouse Data Centers

  3. · PR Newswire

  4. · Bisnow