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Meta Mesa Data Center

Meta Mesa Data Center

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Arizona (APS/SRP)

Eastmark community, Mesa, Arizona. 5-building campus, >2.5M sq ft; operational Jan 2025.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

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 Mesa Data Center No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Capital baseline 40 Meta Mesa Data Center No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 Meta Mesa Data Center Newest capital evidence is 2025-02-11 (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 Energization Power/interconnection milestone "Energization" achieved on 2025-01-30 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Meta Mesa Data Center Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-01-30 (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 Mesa Data Center No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Meta Mesa Data Center Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-02-11 (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 Mesa Data Center 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 (2021-08-01).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Energization Milestone "Energization" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-01-30).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Meta Mesa Data Center Newest schedule evidence is 2025-01-30 (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. Energization

    Achieved

    Energization · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Meta
Owner
DPR Construction
General Contractor

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. AZ Big Media · May 6, 2022 · backs: actual date

    https://azbigmedia.com/business/meta-mesa-data-center-will-expand-to-more-than-2-5m-sf/

  2. AZ Big Media · Feb 11, 2025 · backs: actual date, status

    https://azbigmedia.com/real-estate/commercial-real-estate/meta-announces-mesa-data-center-is-operational/

Signals

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

  1. · AZ Big Media

  2. · AZ Big Media

  3. · AZ Big Media