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Plan Nuclear Argentino - Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Hub (Nuclear City)

Plan Nuclear Argentino - Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Hub (Nuclear City)

Announced
Probable

Jurisdiction: Argentina

Phase 1 SMR (INVAP ACR-300) sited at Atucha Nuclear Complex, Lima, Buenos Aires Province (~-33.97, -59.21); the AI data center hub itself ('Nuclear City', Phase 3) is proposed for Patagonia with no confirmed site - coordinates withheld

Capacity
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GPUs (est.)
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Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
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Delivery health score

51 /100
51/100

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 Plan Nuclear Argentino - Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Hub (Nuclear City) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 Plan Nuclear Argentino - Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Hub (Nuclear City) Newest capital evidence is 2025-05-06 (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 Plan Nuclear Argentino - Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Hub (Nuclear City) Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-05-06 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Plan Nuclear Argentino - Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Hub (Nuclear City) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 Plan Nuclear Argentino - Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Hub (Nuclear City) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-05-06 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 Plan Nuclear Argentino - Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Hub (Nuclear City) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Plan Nuclear Argentino - Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Hub (Nuclear City) 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 (2024-12-31).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Plan Nuclear Argentino - Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Hub (Nuclear City) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-05-06 (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:

  2. Commissioning

    Expected
    1 revision

    Commissioning · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Government of Argentina (Consejo Nuclear Argentino)
Developer
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Government of Argentina (Consejo Nuclear Argentino)
Government Partner
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INVAP
Developer
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Nucleoelectrica Argentina
Government Partner
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Nucleoelectrica Argentina
Operator
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CNEA (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica)
Government Partner
— —

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. World Nuclear News · backs: actual date

    https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/argentina-aims-to-pioneer-new-nuclear-president-milei-says

  2. Rest of World · May 6, 2025 · backs: expected date, status

    https://restofworld.org/2025/argentina-hopes-to-attract-big-tech-with-nuclear-powered-ai-data-centers/

Signals

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

  1. · Rest of World · relevance 0.70