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Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
Google Grange Castle Phase 3 (planning refused)

Google Grange Castle Phase 3 (planning refused)

Stalled
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: Ireland

Grange Castle Business Park, south Dublin — Google's proposed third building (eight data halls, ~50 acres) next to its two operating buildings. Planning REFUSED Aug 2024 on grid-capacity grounds.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

35 /100
35/100

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

Schedule

55 /100
55/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

50 /100
50/100

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
Capital baseline 40 Google Grange Castle Phase 3 (planning refused) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Schedule hard cap -16.75 Google Grange Castle Phase 3 (planning refused) Hard cap "status_stalled" (health ≤ 35): project status is stalled. [binding]
Capital staleness decay +10 Google Grange Castle Phase 3 (planning refused) Newest capital evidence is 2024-08-27 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Grange Castle Phase 3 (planning refused) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 Google Grange Castle Phase 3 (planning refused) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2024-08-27 (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 Grange Castle Phase 3 (planning refused) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Google Grange Castle Phase 3 (planning refused) Newest regulatory evidence is 2024-08-27 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 Google Grange Castle Phase 3 (planning refused) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Google Grange Castle Phase 3 (planning refused) Newest schedule evidence is 2024-08-27 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

No milestones recorded for this project yet.

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Google Ireland
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. RTÉ News · Aug 27, 2024 · backs: status

    https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0827/1466894-permission-for-google-data-centre-denied/

Signals

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

  1. · RTÉ News · relevance 0.90