Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)
Boydton, Mecklenburg County, VA; coordinates approximate to town; Microsoft's largest East Coast Azure campus, repeatedly expanded since 2010
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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| Regulatory | staleness decay | -20 | Microsoft Boydton Campus | Newest regulatory evidence is 2010-08-27 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Capital | baseline | 40 | Microsoft Boydton Campus | Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4). |
| Capital | capital commitment | +30 | Microsoft (investor) | investor role committed $2,000,000,000 (capex undisclosed — coverage unverifiable). |
| Capital | staleness decay | -20 | Microsoft Boydton Campus | Newest capital evidence is 2010-08-27 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Microsoft Boydton Campus | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Infrastructure | staleness decay | -20 | Microsoft Boydton Campus | Newest infrastructure evidence is 2010-08-27 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Microsoft Boydton Campus | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Microsoft Boydton Campus | 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 (2010-08-27). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | Microsoft Boydton Campus | Newest schedule evidence is 2010-08-27 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Announcement · Actual:
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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| Microsoft | 100% | $2.0B | |
| Microsoft | — | — | |
| Microsoft | — | — | |
| Dominion Virginia Power (Dominion Energy) | — | — |
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.
Data Center Knowledge · Aug 27, 2010 · backs: actual date, status
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hyperscalers/microsoft-picks-virginia-for-major-data-center
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Virginia Economic Development Partnership · relevance 0.85
· Data Center Knowledge · relevance 0.85
YourGV · relevance 0.70
DCD · relevance 0.90