Hepokorpi: a phase 3 permit is not evidence of completed delivery
A June 2026 phase 3 permit account sits beside reporting on earlier-phase construction. The permit and programme targets do not establish current operation.
The phase 3 permit concerns a specific part of the Hepokorpi project. The separate environmental-assessment listing concerns the wider Espoo project area; its conclusions have not been mapped to the phase 3 permit here. Wider Microsoft construction reporting also covers other Finnish locations and cannot be treated as a single-site completion observation.
This is a connected project evidence file, not a new physical-facility record. The original catalogue URL and identity remain in place.
What stage does the evidence support?
The existing announcement records a phase 3 building-permit decision on 11 June 2026. The retained catalogue construction label and wider programme account do not establish that phase 3 is built or that the campus is operating now.
Retained catalogue stage and its date
The existing catalogue label is under construction, observed as of 11 June 2026. Its recorded check remains 2 October 2026. Retained historical catalogue label, not a fresh whole-project status check or a delivery-confidence score.
Project stage and evidence quality answer different questions. A reviewed permit can be strong evidence of that permit within its scope while leaving current construction or delivery unresolved. No delivery-confidence score is assigned here.
What needs to be established next?
The Finnish environment administration lists a reasoned conclusion for the Espoo project environmental assessment dated 4 June 2024. Keep this historical listing separate from the June 2026 phase 3 building permit. Inspect the underlying conclusion, compare it with the city decision linked from the catalogue record, and establish which conditions concern the relevant phase before seeking later construction, commissioning and service evidence.
Current phase-specific construction and commissioning
Not established by the evidence inspected
An earlier-phase account cannot establish that phase 3 has reached the same stage.
Permit finality and any current participation window
Not established by the evidence inspected
The linked decision is a source to inspect, not current legal advice or an asserted appeal deadline.
Delivered heat recovery, local positions and other outcomes
Not researched in this file
No benefit is counted as realised and no community position is inferred.
Available compute or a site capacity figure
Not established by the evidence inspected
A permit and a multi-location programme account cannot answer an access or available-capacity question.
What does this mean for people affected?
The environmental-assessment page lists a no-build alternative. The underlying assessment, choice of alternative and fulfilment of conditions were not inspected here. The existing record contains planned heat-recovery and cooling context. Plans and expectations do not establish delivered heat, realised local benefits, community consent or current environmental performance.
Use the community question guide to ask who makes the decision, what evidence is missing, how to participate and how any commitments will be checked. Unknown evidence does not establish no impact or no concern.
What materially changed?
This first connected evidence file assembles existing published observations. It does not establish a newly detected project change or a complete change history. A later source date alone is not evidence that the whole project advanced.
A new evidence page is a site improvement. It is not, by itself, a new project milestone. No material-change detection date or complete historical sequence is claimed.
What should I watch or do next?
Open the official environmental-assessment project page. To compare it with the phase 3 building decision, follow the unchanged planning link in the existing catalogue record above. Confirm the relevant phase, conditions and later evidence directly; historical assessment and permit dates do not establish current legal status, participation or completed delivery. Open the official source.
Decision-link routing check: 25 October 2026. Environmental-assessment page listing only: published 4 February 2024, updated 9 July 2024, reasoned conclusion listed 4 June 2024. Two minimal attributed metadata statements and an ordinary source link, with copyright retained and no open content licence asserted. The underlying conclusion, reports, attachments and private submissions were not opened. This is not the phase 3 permit, current participation, fulfilled conditions or completed delivery; older facility observations and their dates remain unchanged.
The underlying environmental conclusion and any conditions relevant to the specific phase, including how alternatives and local effects were assessed.
Later official decisions and phase-specific construction evidence.
Commissioning and service evidence at Hepokorpi rather than programme-wide targets.
Documented local commitments, heat-recovery delivery and current participation information.
If you need compute now, use Find compute to investigate an access route with its own eligibility and service evidence. A project milestone is not an available compute offer.
Inspect the supporting observations
Original evidence dates and recorded checks are retained separately. Assembling this file does not renew them. Unknown source dates stay unknown.
City of Espoo announcement via STT Info
On 11 June 2026 the Espoo environment and building board approved a phase 3 building permit for Microsoft 3465 Finland Oy and allowed work to begin before the permit is final.
Scope: The 11 June 2026 phase 3 building-permit account. It does not establish phase 3 construction, legal finality or current operation.
Evidence basis: historical published record. Reuses the published record. No fresh source retrieval or whole-record revalidation in this edition; an exact independent review timestamp is not stored in this record.
Source conditions and limits
Existing source conditions retained; no new source-content licence. Selected existing attributed fact and ordinary original link only. Third-party source material retains its terms. This evidence file creates no blanket reuse or recurring-monitoring permission.
Microsoft: April 2026 Finnish construction programme account
Microsoft said in April 2026 that first-phase construction began in late 2024 and should finish around the turn of 2026 to 2027, with second-phase work starting in 2026 at Espoo, Kirkkonummi and Vihti.
Scope: Microsoft programme-level construction reporting covering Espoo, Kirkkonummi and Vihti. A reported target is not completed delivery at Hepokorpi.
Evidence basis: historical published record. Reuses the published record. No fresh source retrieval or whole-record revalidation in this edition; an exact independent review timestamp is not stored in this record.
Source conditions and limits
Existing source conditions retained; no new source-content licence. Selected existing attributed fact and ordinary original link only. Third-party source material retains its terms. This evidence file creates no blanket reuse or recurring-monitoring permission.
How these observations are connected
Relationships preserve the cited observation's own date and scope. A shared locality or organisation does not establish a shared physical facility.
has scoped phase 3 permit account. supported within stated scope. The 11 June 2026 phase 3 building-permit account. It does not establish phase 3 construction, legal finality or current operation. Inspect the supporting observation.
has wider programme reporting. supported within stated scope. Microsoft programme-level construction reporting covering Espoo, Kirkkonummi and Vihti. A reported target is not completed delivery at Hepokorpi. Inspect the supporting observation.
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