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Google Winschoten Data Center (Groningen)

Google Winschoten Data Center (Groningen)

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: Netherlands

Hoogebrug 3, Winschoten (municipality of Oldambt), Groningen province — part of Google's europe-west4 cloud region alongside the older Eemshaven campus. Opened November 2025.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

58.5 /100
58.5/100

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

Schedule

65 /100
65/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

60 /100
60/100

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
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Winschoten Data Center (Groningen) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Capital baseline 40 Google Winschoten Data Center (Groningen) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Commissioning Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2025-11-18 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Google Winschoten Data Center (Groningen) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-11-18 (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 Winschoten Data Center (Groningen) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Google Winschoten Data Center (Groningen) Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-11-18 (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 Winschoten Data Center (Groningen) 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 (2025-11-18).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2023-12-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Google Winschoten Data Center (Groningen) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-11-18 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

  2. Commissioning

    Achieved

    Commissioning · 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 Cloud Press Corner · Nov 18, 2025 · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2025-11-18-Google-Opens-Data-Center-in-Winschoten-to-Help-Power-the-AI-Economy-in-The-Netherlands

Signals

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

  1. · Google Cloud Press Corner · relevance 0.90