Diego Mendoza-Moyers: $165 billion with a B. That’s how much a firm out of Austin says it’s going to invest to build a huge data center campus in Doña Ana County, next door to El Paso. That’s an absolutely astronomical dollar figure – one so big it raises a lot of questions. Who is BorderPlex Digital Assets, the company behind this? And how could this group possibly plan to spend this much in a small New Mexico border county? What does it mean for our economy, and, maybe more importantly, for the future of our water and electricity systems here in the borderland?
I’m Diego Mendoza-Moyers, a reporter and host of the El Paso Matters Podcast, and I want to spend a few minutes talking through this company’s proposal and see what questions we have answers to at this point and what we still don’t know. And if you want some more background and facts about all of this, you can visit elpasomatters.org to read the story we published last week.
But before we go any further, I want to mention that this El Paso Matters Podcast episode is sponsored by Tawney Acosta and Chaparro, truck crash and injury attorneys. Their team of local, seasoned trial attorneys are ready to help if you’ve been injured in a crash…