Jurisdiction: Argentina
First Stargate node in Latin America: OpenAI and Sur Energy signed a letter of intent (October 2025) to develop an AI data center in Argentine Patagonia of up to 500 MW with investment of up to $25bn, under the RIGI large-investment incentive regime. LOI stage — no committed capital evidenced and no publicly evidenced construction or energization timeline.
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual
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.
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| Capital | baseline | 40 | Stargate Argentina (Patagonia) | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Stargate Argentina (Patagonia) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Stargate Argentina (Patagonia) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Stargate Argentina (Patagonia) | 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 (2025-10-31). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | Stargate Argentina (Patagonia) | Newest schedule evidence is 2025-10-31 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Announcement · Actual:
Groundbreaking · Expected:
Energization · Expected:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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Ownership
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| OpenAI | — | — | |
| Sur Energy | — | — | |
| Sur Energy | — | — | |
| Sur Energy | — | — | |
| Government of Argentina (Consejo Nuclear Argentino) | — | — |
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.
DCD · Oct 1, 2025 · backs: actual date, capacity mw, expected date, status
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/openai-plans-500mw-data-center-in-argentina/
Buenos Aires Times · Oct 1, 2025 · backs: announced date, capex usd
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/openai-plans-to-build-massive-data-centre-in-argentina-avoids-mentioning-financial-figures.phtml
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· W.Media · relevance 0.95
· Buenos Aires Times · relevance 0.70
· DCD · relevance 0.90
· Buenos Aires Herald · relevance 0.90
Buenos Aires Times · relevance 0.75
openai.com · relevance 0.00