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Meta Henrico Data Center (White Oak Technology Park)

Meta Henrico Data Center (White Oak Technology Park)

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)

White Oak Technology Park, eastern Henrico County (I-295/I-64), Sandston/Richmond area, VA. Online since Aug 2020; planned ~2.5M sq ft, 300+ acre campus.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

62 /100
62/100

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

Schedule

70 /100
70/100

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
Capital staleness decay +10 Meta Henrico Data Center (White Oak Technology Park) Newest capital evidence is 2020-08-05 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Meta Henrico Data Center (White Oak Technology Park) Newest regulatory evidence is 2020-08-05 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Capital baseline 40 Meta Henrico Data Center (White Oak Technology Park) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Meta Henrico Data Center (White Oak Technology Park) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Commissioning Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2020-08-05 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Meta Henrico Data Center (White Oak Technology Park) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2020-08-05 (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 Henrico Data Center (White Oak Technology Park) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Meta Henrico Data Center (White Oak Technology Park) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2017-10-05).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Commissioning Milestone "Commissioning" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2020-08-05).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2018-02-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Meta Henrico Data Center (White Oak Technology Park) Newest schedule evidence is 2020-08-05 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

  3. Commissioning

    Achieved

    Commissioning · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Meta Platforms (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. Henrico EDA · May 3, 2018 · backs: actual date

    https://henrico.com/breaking-news-facebook-receive-cici-award-for-henrico-project/

  2. Henrico EDA · Aug 5, 2020 · backs: actual date, status

    https://henrico.com/press-release/facebooks-henrico-data-center-is-officially-online/

  3. WVTF/Radio IQ · Oct 5, 2017 · backs: actual date

    https://www.wvtf.org/news/2017-10-05/facebook-comes-to-virginia-with-billion-dollar-data-center

Signals

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

  1. · Henrico EDA

  2. · Henrico EDA