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ARSAT Benavidez Data Center Hall IV Expansion

ARSAT Benavidez Data Center Hall IV Expansion

Planned
Probable

Jurisdiction: Argentina

ARSAT national data center, Benavidez, Tigre Partido, Buenos Aires Province (Av. Juan D. Peron 7934); coordinates approximate to Benavidez

Capacity
1 MW basis: it load
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

69 /100
69/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

70 /100
70/100

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 ARSAT Benavidez Data Center Hall IV Expansion Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4).
Capital capital commitment +30 ARSAT (Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales) (government partner) government_partner role committed $17,000,000 (capex undisclosed — coverage unverifiable).
Infrastructure baseline 70 ARSAT Benavidez Data Center Hall IV Expansion No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 ARSAT Benavidez Data Center Hall IV Expansion No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 ARSAT Benavidez Data Center Hall IV Expansion 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 (2025-08-31).
Schedule staleness decay -25 ARSAT Benavidez Data Center Hall IV Expansion Newest schedule evidence is 2025-08-31 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
ARSAT (Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales)
Government Partner
100% $0.0B
ARSAT (Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales)
Operator
ARSAT (Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales)
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. DCD · backs: actual date, capacity mw, status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/arsat-plans-multi-million-dollar-expansion-of-buenos-aires-data-center/

Signals

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

  1. DCD · relevance 0.90