Data Center Construction in New Mexico

Oracle and OpenAI are backing a massive data center project known as Project Jupiter in southern New Mexico, which was approved on September 19. The project has raised community concerns about water usage in the arid region, though developers maintain there is sufficient water supply. This is a hyperscale-class facility involving two major technology companies — Oracle as the developer and OpenAI

New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard denied for a second time on July 14, 2026, a request by Energy Transfer to build a 17-mile natural gas pipeline across state trust land to power Project Jupiter, a massive data center campus in Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County. The project, led by STACK Infrastructure in partnership with BorderPlex Digital Assets for Oracle and OpenAI, has been un

Community opposition dominated a town hall at New Mexico Tech regarding a proposal by Canadian company Green Data to build a data center and solar array on 10,000 acres near Socorro, NM. Residents protested water resource depletion, grid disruption, and landscape impacts. Green Data CEO Jason Bak signed a letter of intent with the university in January 2025, but the proposal remains in early plann