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Meta Sarpy Data Center (Papillion/Springfield)

Meta Sarpy Data Center (Papillion/Springfield)

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Nebraska (OPPD / NPPD / LES, 100% consumer-owned public power; SPP)

Sarpy County (Papillion, expanding south into Springfield on 500+ acres) — live since 2019; nine-building / ~4M sq ft buildout; $1.5B+; OPPD power (purchase raised 200→320MW per rate-agreement reporting); Dixon County wind supply.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

52 /100
52/100

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

Schedule

55 /100
55/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

50 /100
50/100

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 baseline 40 Meta Sarpy Data Center (Papillion/Springfield) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 Meta Sarpy Data Center (Papillion/Springfield) Newest capital evidence is 2022-06-01 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Meta Sarpy Data Center (Papillion/Springfield) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 Meta Sarpy Data Center (Papillion/Springfield) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2022-06-01 (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 Sarpy Data Center (Papillion/Springfield) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Meta Sarpy Data Center (Papillion/Springfield) Newest regulatory evidence is 2022-06-01 (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 Sarpy Data Center (Papillion/Springfield) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Meta Sarpy Data Center (Papillion/Springfield) Newest schedule evidence is 2022-06-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

No milestones recorded for this project yet.

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Meta
Owner
Turner 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. Data Center Dynamics · Jun 1, 2022 · backs: status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-to-expand-sarpy-data-center-in-nebraska/

Signals

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

  1. · Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.70

  2. · Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.90