Jurisdiction: US — Georgia (Southern/Georgia Power)
City of Palmetto, Fulton County (south metro Atlanta) — part of Microsoft's Fulton/Douglas Azure region buildout. Construction from April 2024, first-phase completion target early October 2025. DISTINCT from Microsoft Fairwater (Fayetteville/QTS) and Project Rita (Tyrone).
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
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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| Capital | baseline | 40 | Microsoft Palmetto Data Center | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Microsoft Palmetto Data Center | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Microsoft Palmetto Data Center | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Microsoft Palmetto Data Center | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Groundbreaking | Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2024-04-01). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | Microsoft Palmetto Data Center | Newest schedule evidence is 2024-04-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Groundbreaking · 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 | — | — | |
| Turner Construction | — | — |
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.
Microsoft Local · backs: actual date, status
https://local.microsoft.com/blog/palmetto-datacenter-construction-update/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
Microsoft Local