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Vantage Lighthouse Campus (Port Washington)

Vantage Lighthouse Campus (Port Washington)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Wisconsin (MISO)

Port Washington, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin; 672-acre campus, 4 buildings, nearly 1GW, $15B+. Turner Construction + McCarthy JV on the Phase-1 team (per ENR #61793).

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

67.8 /100
67.8/100

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

Schedule

85 /100
85/100

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 Vantage Lighthouse Campus (Port Washington) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Vantage Lighthouse Campus (Port Washington) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Vantage Lighthouse Campus (Port Washington) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Vantage Lighthouse Campus (Port Washington) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-04-18).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · 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
Vantage Data Centers
Developer
Turner Construction
General Contractor
McCarthy Building Companies
General Contractor
Whiting-Turner Contracting
General Contractor

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. Vantage Lighthouse Campus · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.vantagedclighthousecampus.com/construction-updates/

  2. Vantage Lighthouse Campus · backs: expected date

    https://www.vantagedclighthousecampus.com/faq/

Signals

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

  1. · ENR

  2. Vantage Lighthouse Campus

  3. Vantage Lighthouse Campus

  4. Vantage Lighthouse Campus