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Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
Google Mesa Data Center

Google Mesa Data Center

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Arizona (APS/SRP)

Elliot Road Technology Corridor, Mesa, Arizona; 187 acres. Google's first physical presence in AZ.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

55.3 /100
55.3/100

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

Schedule

65 /100
65/100

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 Mesa Data Center No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 Google Mesa Data Center Newest capital evidence is 2023-09-09 (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 Mesa Data Center No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 Google Mesa Data Center Newest infrastructure evidence is 2023-09-09 (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 Mesa Data Center No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Google Mesa Data Center Newest regulatory evidence is 2023-09-09 (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 Mesa 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 (2019-07-07).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2023-09-09).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Google Mesa Data Center Newest schedule evidence is 2023-09-09 (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. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Google
Owner
City of Mesa
Government Partner

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. AZ Big Media · Jul 7, 2019 · backs: actual date

    https://azbigmedia.com/business/economic-development/mesa-approves-deal-to-bring-1b-google-site-to-city/

  2. AZ Big Media · Sep 9, 2023 · backs: actual date, status

    https://azbigmedia.com/business/google-breaks-ground-on-massive-600-million-mesa-data-center/

Signals

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

  1. · AZ Big Media

  2. · AZ Big Media