New Mexico and El Paso each adopted climate plans to cut emissions sharply by 2050.
But near the Texas-New Mexico border, three huge data center projects linked to the AI boom could swamp those goals with pollution from the power plants expected to keep them running, according to El Paso Matters.
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Within about half an hour of one another are three major sites: Oracle’s Project Jupiter in Doña Ana County, Meta’s data center in northeast El Paso, and a proposed third campus at Fort Bliss.
Together, the three developments could add millions of tons of greenhouse gases and release other pollutants that will worsen air quality in the region…