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Rowan Bauxite I (Quantum Frederick)

Rowan Bauxite I (Quantum Frederick)

Commissioned
Confirmed

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

Quantum Frederick Park (former Alcoa Eastalco Works), Frederick County, MD. Four single-story buildings, 777,150 sq ft across 151 acres; on-site Potomac Edison substation. First of three Bauxite phases (campus target ~625MW by 2027).

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

Delivery health score

59.5 /100
59.5/100

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

Schedule

65 /100
65/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

60 /100
60/100

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
Infrastructure baseline 70 Rowan Bauxite I (Quantum Frederick) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Rowan Bauxite I (Quantum Frederick) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-07-01 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Capital baseline 40 Rowan Bauxite I (Quantum Frederick) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Commissioning Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2025-07-01 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Regulatory baseline 70 Rowan Bauxite I (Quantum Frederick) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Rowan Bauxite I (Quantum Frederick) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Commissioning Milestone "Commissioning" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-07-01).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2024-08-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Rowan Bauxite I (Quantum Frederick) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-07-01 (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:

  2. Commissioning

    Achieved

    Commissioning · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Amazon Web Services
Anchor Tenant
Rowan Digital Infrastructure
Developer
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners
Investor
Potomac Edison
Utility Provider

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. Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners · backs: actual date, capacity mw, status

    https://www.quinbrook.com/our-portfolio/rowan-digital-infrastructure/

Signals

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

  1. · Rowan Digital Infrastructure · relevance 0.90

  2. · FirstEnergy · relevance 0.90

  3. Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners · relevance 0.30

  4. Frederick News-Post (via Yahoo News mirror) · relevance 0.90