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Google Lincoln Data Center (Agate)

Google Lincoln Data Center (Agate)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Nebraska (OPPD / NPPD / LES, 100% consumer-owned public power; SPP)

570+ acres bounded by N. 40th St / Hwy 77 / I-80 / Bluff Road, Lancaster County — the 'Agate' project (filed 2019, approved 2021, Google-confirmed Aug 2023, $600M); ~2M sq ft plan; LES (Lincoln Electric System) territory — NOT OPPD; system-impact studies reference an eventual 1,000-3,000MW scenario.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

53.5 /100
53.5/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

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 Lincoln Data Center (Agate) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 Google Lincoln Data Center (Agate) Newest capital evidence is 2023-08-22 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Google Lincoln Data Center (Agate) Newest regulatory evidence is 2023-08-22 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Lincoln Data Center (Agate) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 Google Lincoln Data Center (Agate) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2023-08-22 (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 Lincoln Data Center (Agate) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Google Lincoln Data Center (Agate) 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 (2023-08-23).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Google Lincoln Data Center (Agate) Newest schedule evidence is 2023-08-23 (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:

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

    https://datacenters.google/locations/nebraska/

  2. Nebraska Examiner · Aug 22, 2023 · backs: status

    https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2023/08/22/google-confirms-lincolns-600m-data-center-touts-this-years-1-2b-spend-on-ne-infrastructure/

Signals

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

  1. · Flatwater Free Press · relevance 0.90

  2. · Nebraska Examiner · relevance 0.95