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Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
AWS Desper Creek Technology Campus (Louisa County)

AWS Desper Creek Technology Campus (Louisa County)

Permitting
Probable

Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)

~140 acres south of Jefferson Highway (Rt 33), Louisa County Technology Overlay District — AWS's SECOND Louisa campus (the seeded aws-louisa-county / Lake Anna Tech Campus is the first, under construction). Up to 8 buildings + substation; scaled-down refile (Aug 2025) after AWS withdrew a larger 7.2M sq ft proposal.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

47 /100
47/100

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

Schedule

55 /100
55/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

50 /100
50/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

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 AWS Desper Creek Technology Campus (Louisa County) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 AWS Desper Creek Technology Campus (Louisa County) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 AWS Desper Creek Technology Campus (Louisa County) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-09-16 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 AWS Desper Creek Technology Campus (Louisa County) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 AWS Desper Creek Technology Campus (Louisa County) Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-09-16 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 AWS Desper Creek Technology Campus (Louisa County) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule staleness decay -25 AWS Desper Creek Technology Campus (Louisa County) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-09-16 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

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Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Amazon Web Services
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. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District · Sep 16, 2025 · backs: status

    https://www.nao.usace.army.mil/Media/Public-Notices/Article/4304300/nao-2024-02685-desper-creek-technology-campus-lousia-virginia/

Signals

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

  1. · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District · relevance 0.70