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Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
Wheatfield data center and gas plant

Wheatfield data center and gas plant

Announced
Rumored

Jurisdiction: US — Rest of US (composite)

Capacity
2,000 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

60.5 /100
60.5/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: event driven

Schedule

80 /100
80/100

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 Wheatfield data center and gas plant No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Regulatory baseline 70 Wheatfield data center and gas plant No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Wheatfield data center and gas plant No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Wheatfield data center and gas plant No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).

Milestones

No milestones recorded for this project yet.

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

No entity roles recorded for this project.

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. Canary Media · May 14, 2026 · backs: capacity mw, status

    https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/this-indiana-community-is-caught-between-coal-and-the-data-center-boom

Signals

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

  1. · Canary Media · relevance 0.70