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Meta (Facebook) Forest City Data Center

Meta (Facebook) Forest City Data Center

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — North Carolina (Duke Energy)

Forest City, Rutherford County, North Carolina. Building 1 online Apr 2012 (OCP outdoor-air cooling).

Capacity
—
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
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Delivery health score

60 /100
60/100

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

Schedule

65 /100
65/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

60 /100
60/100

Capital

50 /100
50/100

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 Meta (Facebook) Forest City Data Center No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Capital baseline 40 Meta (Facebook) Forest City Data Center No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 Meta (Facebook) Forest City Data Center Newest capital evidence is 2012-04-19 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Commissioning Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2012-04-19 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Meta (Facebook) Forest City Data Center Newest infrastructure evidence is 2012-04-19 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 Meta (Facebook) Forest City Data Center No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Meta (Facebook) Forest City Data Center Newest regulatory evidence is 2012-04-19 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 Meta (Facebook) Forest City Data Center 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 (2012-04-19).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2010-11-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Meta (Facebook) Forest City Data Center Newest schedule evidence is 2012-04-19 (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
Meta (Facebook)
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. E2
    Meta Newsroom - Facebook Data Center Opens in Forest City, N.C.

    Meta Newsroom · Apr 19, 2012 · backs: actual date, status

    https://about.fb.com/news/2012/04/facebook-data-center-opens-in-forest-city-n-c/

Signals

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

  1. E2
    Meta Newsroom - Facebook Data Center Opens in Forest City, N.C.

    · Meta Newsroom