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Google Midlothian Campus - Building 5 (Sharka)

Google Midlothian Campus - Building 5 (Sharka)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

3441 Railport Parkway, Midlothian (Ellis County) — fifth building on Google's Midlothian campus, filed via shell company Sharka LLC. $880M, 288,000 sq ft, completion target Feb 2027. Distinct from Google's Red Oak campus (also Ellis County).

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

57.3 /100
57.3/100

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

Schedule

55 /100
55/100

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 Midlothian Campus - Building 5 (Sharka) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Regulatory baseline 70 Google Midlothian Campus - Building 5 (Sharka) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Midlothian Campus - Building 5 (Sharka) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Google Midlothian Campus - Building 5 (Sharka) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Google Midlothian Campus - Building 5 (Sharka) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-12-10 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

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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. Data Center Dynamics · Dec 10, 2025 · backs: status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-files-for-fifth-data-center-at-midlothian-campus-in-texas/

Signals

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

  1. · Data Center Dynamics