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Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
Microsoft Granger Data Center (St. Joe Farms)

Microsoft Granger Data Center (St. Joe Farms)

Planned
Probable

Jurisdiction: US — Indiana (MISO)

Granger, St. Joseph County, Indiana; ~930 acres acquired + rezoned for a data center. (Distinct from Microsoft's La Porte $1B site.)

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

51 /100
51/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

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 Microsoft Granger Data Center (St. Joe Farms) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 Microsoft Granger Data Center (St. Joe Farms) Newest capital evidence is 2024-06-04 (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 Microsoft Granger Data Center (St. Joe Farms) Newest regulatory evidence is 2024-06-04 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Microsoft Granger Data Center (St. Joe Farms) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 Microsoft Granger Data Center (St. Joe Farms) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2024-06-04 (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 Granger Data Center (St. Joe Farms) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Microsoft Granger Data Center (St. Joe Farms) 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 (2024-06-04).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Microsoft Granger Data Center (St. Joe Farms) Newest schedule evidence is 2024-06-04 (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:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Microsoft
Developer

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. IBJ · Jun 4, 2024 · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.ibj.com/articles/microsoft-planning-1b-data-center-in-indiana

Signals

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

  1. · IBJ