The Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners on Friday will decide whether to approve Project Jupiter, a proposed $165 billion data center campus that would be located near the port of entry in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
The project – a collection of four data centers meant for artificial intelligence training – would be among the biggest private investments ever made and could reshape the regional economy around El Paso and Las Cruces.
But whether this region has the water supplies to support the data centers and the natural gas-fired generation source that would power the campus is a major concern residents of El Paso and southern Doña Ana County have consistently voiced since details of the project became public in late August…