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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
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 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
Government of Argentina (Consejo Nuclear Argentino)
Government Partner
INVAP
Developer
Nucleoelectrica Argentina
Government Partner
Nucleoelectrica Argentina
Operator
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