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Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
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Google / Intersect Meitner Energy Center (Texas Panhandle)

Google / Intersect Meitner Energy Center (Texas Panhandle)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

Gray + Roberts Counties (Pampa area), Texas Panhandle — co-located data center + 1GW+ generation complex (wind/solar/storage + on-site gas firming), OFF-GRID. Three 750,000 sq ft buildings; $3B; groundbreaking Dec 2025. Google acquired co-developer Intersect Power (Mar 2026).

Capacity
—
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

59 /100
59/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

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 / Intersect Meitner Energy Center (Texas Panhandle) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google / Intersect Meitner Energy Center (Texas Panhandle) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Google / Intersect Meitner Energy Center (Texas Panhandle) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Google / Intersect Meitner Energy Center (Texas Panhandle) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-12-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Google / Intersect Meitner Energy Center (Texas Panhandle) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-12-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Google
Owner
— —
Intersect Power
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. E2
    NewsChannel 10 - Pampa's $3 billion AI data center signals new era of growth in Gray County

    NewsChannel 10 · Jan 17, 2026 · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.newschannel10.com/2026/01/17/pampas-3-billion-ai-data-center-signals-new-era-growth-gray-county/

Signals

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

  1. E2
    Intersect - Google and Intersect deepen Texas roots with new data center and energy investments in Gray and Roberts Counties

    · Intersect

  2. E2
    NewsChannel 10 - Pampa's $3 billion AI data center signals new era of growth in Gray County

    · NewsChannel 10

  3. E4
    POWER Magazine - Google launches 1-GW-plus co-located complex in Texas

    POWER Magazine · relevance 0.85