“I’ve spent hours and hours looking, and I’ve come up with a few hundred megawatts delivered in the past two years.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
He could find only a few hundred megawatts of data center capacity delivered in the past two years.
Assessment: Unresolved Evidence as of
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Where Are All The Data Centers?, paragraph 175.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence as of
- the cutoff for this assessment
- Assessment recorded
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- capacity he could find (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- I’ve spent hours and hours looking
- I’ve come up with
- a few hundred megawatts
- delivered in the past two years
Our interpretation
- The claim concerns capacity Zitron identified in his research, not an unconditional ceiling on worldwide deliveries.
- The two-year observation period runs backward from the post date: May 12, 2024 through May 12, 2026.
- Delivered means completed and operating capacity, consistent with the surrounding discussion. Announcements and planned campus capacity do not qualify.
- A few hundred means several hundred megawatts; the wording does not justify choosing a precise numerical cutoff.
Counts as supported if: An independently checkable record of the projects he identified, with commissioning dates and comparable capacity measurements, totals only several hundred megawatts within the target period.
Counts as contradicted if: An independently checkable record establishes that his research identified substantially more than several hundred megawatts of qualifying delivered capacity. A larger market-wide total alone does not contradict the personal research claim.
Retrospective: these criteria were written after the outcome was public.
Current assessment
Was it true for the period described?
Outcome: Unresolved
The record was checked, and the evidence available by the cutoff does not settle it.
Scored on a plain reading. The speaker named no measure for this claim, so it was judged on the reading an informed reader would take, stated below under our interpretation. Both reviews had to find that reading fair.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
Microsoft publicly reported a gigawatt of additions in one quarter. That challenges the broader implication of scarce deliveries, but it does not establish what Zitron found under his stated definition. The evidence does not independently verify or disprove his research total.
Limitations
- Treating this as a worldwide delivery ceiling would materially change the claim.
- Company-reported additions are not independently verified commissioning records.
Evidence (1 item)
Context only: Microsoft,
another gigawatt
Why it matters here: This is material contrary context for a broader claim that only several hundred megawatts were delivered. It neither identifies Zitron's research sample nor independently establishes completed, operating capacity under his definition.
- Publisher
- Microsoft
- Kind of source
- Company disclosure: the company describing itself, not an independent finding
- Describes events of
- Public from
What would settle it
A dated project ledger from his research, independently checked against operating dates and consistent capacity measurements.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Where's Your Ed At, Where Are All The Data Centers?
I’ve spent hours and hours looking, and I’ve come up with a few hundred megawatts delivered in the past two years.
- Where
- paragraph 175
- Published
- 2026-05-12
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-where-are-all-the-data-centers-395cc4-a1: Current. Outcome: Unresolved. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
Assessment publishedBy this site
First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.
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