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Google Lenoir Data Center

Google Lenoir Data Center

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — North Carolina (Duke Energy)

Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina. Built 2007-2008; $4B+ cumulative NC investment.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

59.5 /100
59.5/100

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

Schedule

65 /100
65/100

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
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Lenoir Data Center No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Google Lenoir Data Center Newest infrastructure evidence is 2008-01-01 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Capital baseline 40 Google Lenoir Data Center No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Commissioning Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2008-01-01 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Regulatory baseline 70 Google Lenoir Data Center No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Google Lenoir Data 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 (2007-01-01).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Commissioning Milestone "Commissioning" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2008-01-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Google Lenoir Data Center Newest schedule evidence is 2008-01-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Commissioning

    Achieved

    Commissioning · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Google
Owner
Duke Energy
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. Google Data Centers · backs: actual date, status

    https://datacenters.google/locations/north-carolina/

Signals

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

  1. Google Data Centers