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Google Project Skyway (Pine Island, MN)

Google Project Skyway (Pine Island, MN)

Stalled
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Minnesota (Xcel / MISO)

Google data center campus on a 482-acre site in Pine Island, Goodhue County, Minnesota (~18 miles north of Rochester). Construction halted by a Goodhue County District Court temporary restraining order on 2026-05-22 pending environmental review (Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy suit).

Capacity
2,700 MW basis: grid connection
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

35 /100
35/100

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

Schedule

85 /100
85/100

Regulatory

76 /100
76/100

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 Project Skyway (Pine Island, MN) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Project Skyway (Pine Island, MN) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Google Project Skyway (Pine Island, MN) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory permit granted +6 Utility Approval Permitting milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on 2026-02-01.
Schedule baseline 80 Google Project Skyway (Pine Island, MN) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Utility Approval Milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-02-01).
Schedule hard cap -33.35 Google Project Skyway (Pine Island, MN) Hard cap "status_stalled" (health ≤ 35): project status is stalled. [binding]

Milestones

  1. Utility Approval

    Achieved

    Utility approval · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Google
Developer
— —
Ryan Companies
Operator
— —
Xcel 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. E4
    Construction Dive

    www.constructiondive.com · May 22, 2026 · backs: actual date, capacity mw, status

    https://www.constructiondive.com/news/judge-halts-google-data-center-project/822152/

Signals

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

  1. E4
    Construction Dive

    · www.constructiondive.com · relevance 0.00