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NTT VA6 (Ashburn)

NTT VA6 (Ashburn)

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)

NTT's 78-acre Ashburn campus, Loudoun County — sixth building, 180,000 sq ft, 24MW critical IT. Broke ground May 2022; Phase 1 substantially complete Aug 2023 (on schedule); buildout through mid-2024. Clark Construction GC.

Capacity
24 MW basis: it load
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

54 /100
54/100

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

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 NTT VA6 (Ashburn) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 NTT VA6 (Ashburn) Newest capital evidence is 2023-08-30 (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 NTT VA6 (Ashburn) Newest regulatory evidence is 2023-08-30 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 NTT VA6 (Ashburn) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 NTT VA6 (Ashburn) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2023-08-30 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 NTT VA6 (Ashburn) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 NTT VA6 (Ashburn) 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 (2022-05-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 NTT VA6 (Ashburn) Newest schedule evidence is 2022-05-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Clark Construction
General Contractor
NTT Ltd.
Owner

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 · Aug 30, 2023 · backs: actual date, capacity mw, status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/clark-delivers-data-center-to-ntt-in-ashburn-virginia/

Signals

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

  1. · Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.90

  2. · Clark Construction · relevance 0.90