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Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
Crane Clean Energy Center

Crane Clean Energy Center

Construction
Confirmed
Retired power plant · inherited interconnection

Jurisdiction: US — Pennsylvania (PJM)

Three Mile Island Unit 1, Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (on the Susquehanna River near Middletown, PA). The restarting unit is TMI Unit 1, distinct from the Unit 2 that was involved in the 1979 accident.

Capacity
835 MW basis: grid connection
GPUs (est.)
Capex
$1.6B
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

51.9 /100
51.9/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

53 /100
53/100

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
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Crane Clean Energy Center Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-09-01 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Capital baseline 40 Crane Clean Energy Center No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Crane Clean Energy Center No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure prior use interconnection +8 Crane Clean Energy Center Brownfield site — Retired power plant — inherits an existing energized grid interconnection, materially de-risking the scarcest deliverability bottleneck for a new AI/HPC load (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Crane Clean Energy Center Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-09-01 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 Crane Clean Energy Center No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Crane Clean Energy Center 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 (2024-09-20).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Crane Clean Energy Center Newest schedule evidence is 2025-09-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Energization

    Expected
    1 revision

    Energization · Expected:

  2. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  3. Utility Approval

    Expected

    Utility approval

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Microsoft
Anchor Tenant
Constellation Energy
Owner
PJM Interconnection
Utility Provider

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. Constellation Energy · Sep 20, 2024 · backs: actual date, capacity mw

    https://www.constellationenergy.com/news/2024/Constellation-to-Launch-Crane-Clean-Energy-Center-Restoring-Jobs-and-Carbon-Free-Power-to-The-Grid.html

  2. Constellation Energy · Sep 1, 2025 · backs: expected date, status

    https://www.constellationenergy.com/news/2025/09/one-year-later-crane-clean-energy-center-still-in-the-spotlight-and-ahead-of-schedule.html

  3. Utility Dive · Sep 20, 2024 · backs: capex usd

    https://www.utilitydive.com/news/constellation-three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-data-center-ppa/727652/

Signals

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

  1. · Constellation Energy

  2. · Constellation Energy

  3. · Utility Dive