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Google Clarksville Data Center

Google Clarksville Data Center

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Tennessee (TVA federal power / MLGW & local distributors; non-RTO)

100 Solar Way, Clarksville (Montgomery County) — former Hemlock Semiconductor plant; $600M; opened Nov 6 2019; TVA renewable matching (413MW solar PPA, Jan 2019).

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
$0.6B
Announced
Feb 1, 2018
Target operational

Delivery health score

57.5 /100
57.5/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

60 /100
60/100

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 Google Clarksville Data Center No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Clarksville Data Center No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Commissioning Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2019-11-06 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Google Clarksville Data Center Newest infrastructure evidence is 2019-11-06 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 Google Clarksville Data Center No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Google Clarksville Data Center No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Commissioning Milestone "Commissioning" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2019-11-06).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Google Clarksville Data Center Newest schedule evidence is 2019-11-06 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Commissioning

    Achieved

    Commissioning · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Google
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. Google · backs: actual date, status

    https://datacenters.google/locations/tennessee/

  2. Data Center Dynamics · Nov 7, 2019 · backs: announced date, capex usd

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-opens-600m-tennessee-data-center/

Signals

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

  1. · Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.90

  2. · ClarksvilleNow · relevance 0.90

  3. Google · relevance 0.70