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Quantum Frederick Park (master campus)

Quantum Frederick Park (master campus)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Maryland (BGE / Pepco / Delmarva Power / Potomac Edison — PJM)

Former 2,100-acre Alcoa Eastalco Works site near Buckeystown/Adamstown, Frederick County, MD. Master data-center campus hosting Aligned and Rowan sub-projects; 40-mile fiber run to Loudoun County VA. Catellus (TPG) is lead developer after Quantum Loophole's Dec 2024 exit.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

59 /100
59/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

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 Quantum Frederick Park (master campus) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Quantum Frederick Park (master campus) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Quantum Frederick Park (master campus) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Quantum Frederick Park (master campus) 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 (2021-06-28).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Quantum Frederick Park (master campus) Newest schedule evidence is 2021-06-28 (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
Catellus Development Corporation
Developer
Quantum Loophole
Developer
TPG Real Estate Partners
Investor

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. Maryland Department of Commerce · Jun 28, 2021 · backs: actual date

    https://commerce.maryland.gov/media/maryland-commerce-frederick-county-announce-purchase-of-former-alcoa-eastalco-site

  2. Catellus Development Corporation · backs: status

    https://www.catellus.com/hyperscale-data-center-campus

Signals

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

  1. · Maryland Department of Commerce · relevance 0.30

  2. Catellus Development Corporation · relevance 0.30