Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)
Two sites located outside Sweetwater in Fisher County, West Texas (~2,200 acres at full build-out per DCD E3); Sweetwater 2 is sited ~28 miles from Sweetwater 1 per IREN's March 2025 release.
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual
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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Dimension
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Factor
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Contribution
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Cites
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Narrative
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| Capital | baseline | 40 | Sweetwater 1 and 2 (IREN) | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Sweetwater 1 and 2 (IREN) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Infrastructure | interconnection progress | +15 | Energization | Power/interconnection milestone "Energization" achieved on 2026-05-01 — largest single health event (§B.2.3). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Sweetwater 1 and 2 (IREN) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | permit granted | +6 | Utility Approval | Permitting milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on 2025-03-17. |
| Regulatory | staleness decay | -25 | Sweetwater 1 and 2 (IREN) | Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-03-17 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Sweetwater 1 and 2 (IREN) | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Energization | Milestone "Energization" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-05-01). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Utility Approval | Milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-03-17). |
Utility approval · Actual:
Energization · Actual:
Energization · Expected:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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Entity
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Role
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Ownership
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Committed capital
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| IREN Limited | — | — | |
| IREN Limited | — | — | |
| ERCOT | — | — |
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.
IREN (GlobeNewswire) · May 1, 2026 · backs: actual date, status
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/05/01/3286213/0/en/iren-announces-successful-energization-of-sweetwater-1.html
IREN (GlobeNewswire) · Mar 17, 2025 · backs: actual date, expected date
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/03/17/3043594/0/en/IREN-Secures-2-75GW-for-Data-Centers-in-West-Texas-with-New-600MW-Grid-Connection-Agreement.html
DatacenterDynamics · May 6, 2026 · backs: capacity mw
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/iren-energizes-first-phase-of-2gw-sweetwater-data-center-campus-in-texas/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· DatacenterDynamics
· IREN (GlobeNewswire)