Sources and verification

Reading order

Start with the letterhead. An Energimarknadsinspektionen explanation of bidding areas, a Svenska kraftnät map note, a Boverket commentary, a Naturvårdsverket Environmental Code page, an ISP screening page or a Skatteverket tax page is an official starting point for that function. An operator careers page, annual report or market sheet is a first-party claim about that operator. A press extract is still first-party if the operator issued it, and still not a contract. A company-registry record proves a legal presence, not a hall specification.

Then read the sentence that is actually being stored. Original wording travels with the observation. “Total capacity at the Falun site had increased from 29 MW to 41 MW” is not the same sentence as “Once Data Centers E and F are operational, the total capacity in Falun will amount to 65 MW,” and neither is “Total available power 80MW.” A human may have checked all three rows on 10 September 2026. That common last-checked date does not make them the same as-of claim.

Then assign an evidence state before you argue about the number. Documented, reported and unclear are judgements about the paper in hand, not about whether the project is desirable. If the paper does not speak to the fact claimed — a careers page that never states current megawatts, a launch blog that never names a municipality — the honest state is unclear, with a missing reason. Do not upgrade a gap by fetching the page again.

Documented, reported and unclear

Documented is used when a primary operator or official notice states the fact claimed, in language close enough that a reader can match the sentence to the stored field. Microsoft’s 16 November 2021 opening notice documents that the Sweden region opened and that Gävle, Sandviken and Staffanstorp were named. AWS’s 12 December 2018 launch posts document that Europe (Stockholm) opened with three Availability Zones. Meta’s careers page documents a Luleå campus described as operational from 2013. Those are documented existence and opening facts. They are not documented current megawatts, because the same pages do not state a current MW with a defined metric.

Reported is used for operator or press wording that still needs a stronger paper before the claim can be treated as closed. EcoDC’s 41 MW balance-sheet sentence, 65 MW later campus sentence and 80 MW available-power page are all reported: they are first-party, dated, and still short of a defined IT-versus-facility split or a reviewed grid agreement. STACK’s 18 MW market-page figure and Conapto’s 24 MW opening-release figure are reported campus claims. GleSYS 3 MW utility power (2020) and 5 MW (later operator page) stay as two reported rows. evroc’s land purchase, 16,000 GPU design and EUR 600 million intention are reported company aims.

Unclear is used when the fact is missing, the definition is unusable, or two dated claims disagree and cannot yet be reconciled. Missing megawatts on the cited Meta, Microsoft, AWS, Equinix, Bahnhof, Digital Realty, evroc and Borlänge pages are unclear with a not-disclosed reason. Hydro66’s facility megawatt is unclear with a not-yet-checked reason, because a current official facility page was not located. A conflicting reason is reserved for cases where two dated sources contradict each other on the same field and neither is retired. Unclear is never stored as zero. Zero would invent a measurement the source did not make.

• Documented — primary operator or official notice of the fact claimed.
• Reported — operator or press wording that still needs a stronger paper.
• Unclear — missing, undefined, or two dated claims that disagree.

Last checked, published-at and as-of

Last checked is an editorial clock. On a project it is the date a human last reviewed the file. On a metric it is the date that observation was checked. On a stored source it is the access date. In this launch set those editorial clocks are 10 September 2026 unless a row says otherwise. Last checked answers “when did someone look?” It does not answer “when did the operator claim this?” and it does not answer “what period does the claim describe?” Refreshing last checked by fetching the same URL again does not move the other two clocks.

Published-at is the source’s own date. Microsoft’s region notice is 16 November 2021. AWS’s launch posts are 12 December 2018. EcoDC Holding’s English annual-report extract is stored with a 2026 publication date for that file and describes the 2025 reporting year. Conapto’s Stockholm 4 South release is 5 September 2024. evroc’s land notice is 3 February 2025. The atNorth acquisition notice is 2 September 2026. GleSYS heat-delivery wording is 1 October 2020. A market page without a usable day-date may carry a catalogue published-at; that is not proof the claim was born that morning.

As-of is the time the claim describes. Falun’s 41 MW row is as-of the 2025 balance-sheet date, even if the report file is published later. Falun’s 65 MW row is as-of a later point, when E and F are described as operational — a forward sentence, not a second 2025 commissioned total. A 2011 Associated Press energy-need sentence is as-of 27 October 2011. Checking the citation on 10 September 2026 does not move that as-of. GleSYS 3 MW is as-of 1 October 2020; the later 5 MW row has a later as-of. Those dates are why the rows are not collapsed.

The three clocks disagree on purpose. A reader who quotes only last checked will treat every live page as if it were news from this morning. A reader who quotes only published-at will treat a 2025 annual report as if every sentence inside it were true on the publication day and false the day before. A reader who quotes only as-of, without the source date, hides how stale the paper may be. All three labels should remain visible on a metric that is going into a data room.

What Swedish papers can actually prove

A municipal detaljplan, once adopted, binds land use in its area. An översiktsplan guides. Bygglov and startbesked are later construction papers. None of those papers is a grid agreement. Boverket comments on the Planning and Building Act; it does not decide the local case. Naturvårdsverket guides Environmental Code work; the permit, if triggered, sits with the competent authority for that case. ISP screens certain foreign investments; a published ISP page is not a clearance for a named campus. Skatteverket administers energy tax; a tax page is not a connection offer.

Svenska kraftnät can prove statements about the transmission system and about its own indicative map. Energimarknadsinspektionen can prove the official explanation of SE1–SE4. Neither authority, in the sources stored here, publishes a national data-center megawatt census. The government assignment of 29 May 2026, due 29 January 2027, is a dated official instruction to analyse bidding areas. It is documented as an assignment. It is not documented as a new area map and not documented as spare megawatts in SE2 or SE3.

Network-owner letters, when a project team actually holds them, are the papers that speak to applied, reserved or agreed import capacity. This launch set does not republish those letters. Operator sentences about “secured” future supply are therefore kept at reported. That is a method choice, not a finding that the operator is wrong. The stronger paper, if it exists, remains with the counterparties.

Common misreads

The date misread is to treat last checked as if it were as-of. Checking Meta’s careers page on 10 September 2026 does not turn the 2013 operational wording into a 2026 megawatt disclosure, and it does not refresh the 2011 Associated Press energy-need sentence into a current load. Checking EcoDC’s report in 2026 does not move the 41 MW as-of off the balance-sheet date, and it does not turn the 65 MW sentence into a commissioned total.

The upgrade misread is to promote reported wording to documented because the publisher is well known, or to promote unclear to reported because a secondary directory printed a number. Fame is not a paper. A directory megawatt without a primary sentence is not imported. Conflicting dated rows — GleSYS 3 MW and 5 MW — stay both visible. The later page does not silently delete the earlier utility-power claim.

The census misread is to treat a completed check of the launch set as a completed check of Sweden. Coverage is the reviewed sample. Equinix SK3 is named and not yet profiled. Other halls exist in Sweden and are not in this file. Last checked on the launch set is not a percentage of an unknown population. It is only the date the included rows were reviewed.

What to ask next

For any number you intend to reuse, ask for the original sentence, the source published-at, the as-of date and the last-checked date as four separate answers. If a counterpart can supply only last checked, the number is not ready. If two sentences disagree, keep both rows and ask which paper would retire one of them. Do not average them, and do not keep only the larger megawatt.

For any gap, ask whether the missing reason is not disclosed, not yet checked, not applicable, or conflicting. Those reasons lead to different next steps. Not disclosed means the cited primary page is silent. Not yet checked means a human still owes a look at a better official page. Not applicable means the field should not be filled. Conflicting means two dated claims are both still live. Write the reason down. A blank gap is easier to paper over than a named one.

If you hold a stronger paper than the register — a dated network-owner letter, a commissioning notice, a municipal decision — send it through the error or update form with a source and a date. The item enters a review queue. It is not published automatically. Uncomfortable facts that later touch a commercial relationship stay in the file. Sponsorship, if it arrives later, cannot buy a quieter evidence state.

What this does and does not prove

This page proves the labelling rules. It shows how documented, reported and unclear are assigned, and how last checked, published-at and as-of are kept as three clocks. It shows why GleSYS 3 MW and 5 MW remain two dated rows, why Falun 41 / 65 / 80 are not collapsed, and why a 2011 energy-need sentence is not current operating load. It does not prove that every Swedish hall has been checked, that a reported megawatt is false, or that an unclear row means the project does not exist.

It also does not prove a national total. Method that forbids mixed-type addition cannot later invent the sum it refused. Official Swedish institutions remain the decision-makers for plans, environment, screening, tax and transmission statements. DataCenterSweden attaches sources and states. It does not certify a campus, grant a connection, or retire a claim without a dated paper. Material corrections, when they happen, will be listed in the corrections log with the affected URLs.