Compute Institute
Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
EdgeCore Mesa (Greater Phoenix)

EdgeCore Mesa (Greater Phoenix)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Arizona (APS/SRP)

Mesa, Arizona (Greater Phoenix). 84-acre campus, 5 data centers, ~2.7M sq ft; 206MW operational since Apr 2023.

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

Delivery health score

58.3 /100
58.3/100

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

Schedule

65 /100
65/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

60 /100
60/100

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
Infrastructure baseline 70 EdgeCore Mesa (Greater Phoenix) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Capital baseline 40 EdgeCore Mesa (Greater Phoenix) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 EdgeCore Mesa (Greater Phoenix) Newest capital evidence is 2025-05-20 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Energization Power/interconnection milestone "Energization" achieved on 2023-04-01 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 EdgeCore Mesa (Greater Phoenix) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2023-04-01 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 EdgeCore Mesa (Greater Phoenix) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 EdgeCore Mesa (Greater Phoenix) Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-05-20 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 EdgeCore Mesa (Greater Phoenix) 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 (2025-05-20).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Energization Milestone "Energization" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2023-04-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 EdgeCore Mesa (Greater Phoenix) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-05-20 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Energization

    Achieved

    Energization · Actual:

  2. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure
Developer
Partners Group
Investor
Salt River Project
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. EdgeCore · May 20, 2025 · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.edgecore.com/resources/press-releases/edgecore-digital-infrastructure-announces-expansion-of-its-metro-phoenix-data-center-market-to-over-450-mw

  2. EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure · backs: capacity mw

    https://www.edgecore.com/phoenix

Signals

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

  1. · EdgeCore

  2. · EdgeCore

  3. EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure