Jurisdiction: United Kingdom
33-acre site (acquired late 2020), Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire — Google's first UK-owned DC; construction from Jan 2024; opened Sep 16 2025 by Chancellor Rachel Reeves; part of a two-year £5B UK investment. Capacity undisclosed (the Google pattern).
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
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.
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| Regulatory | staleness decay | -20 | Google Waltham Cross Data Centre | Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-09-16 (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 Waltham Cross Data Centre | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Google Waltham Cross Data Centre | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Infrastructure | interconnection progress | +15 | Commissioning | Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2025-09-16 — largest single health event (§B.2.3). |
| Infrastructure | staleness decay | -25 | Google Waltham Cross Data Centre | Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-09-16 (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 Waltham Cross Data Centre | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Google Waltham Cross Data Centre | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Commissioning | Milestone "Commissioning" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-09-16). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | Google Waltham Cross Data Centre | Newest schedule evidence is 2025-09-16 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Commissioning · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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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.
Google · Sep 16, 2025 · backs: actual date, status
https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/united-kingdom/waltham-cross-data-centre/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Google · relevance 0.90