Project Jupiter is a proposed $165 billion AI data center campus near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, approved by Doña Ana County through a process riddled with Open Meetings Act violations, permit fraud, conflicts of interest, and suppression of public records.
This site documents what we know.
The Core Facts
- The county commission voted to approve $165B in Industrial Revenue Bonds in a meeting that included an illegal closed session — a violation of New Mexico’s Open Meetings Act
- The “anchor clients” are OpenAI and Oracle; the campus is operated by STACK Infrastructure, which is owned and financed by the same private equity firm: Blue Owl Capital
- Two air permit applications were filed just 0.03 tons/year below the Title V major source threshold each — on the same site, same owner, same SIC code — to illegally avoid a full environmental review
- The real water usage is ~1,000,000 gallons/day — the public was told 20,000 gallons/day
- NMSU signed an NDA requiring it to notify BorderPlex of IPRA requests and help block public records releases
- The Governor signed a secret MOU committing New Mexico to this project seven months before the public vote
- The company filing the permits renamed itself after the Pueblo of Acoma objected to the unauthorized use of their name
- A community action agency ordered anti-Jupiter advocates to drop their lawsuit and fired the director who refused
Where Things Stand
The gas pipeline needed to fuel the microgrids is failing at FERC. The air permit decision has been delayed to July 21, 2026 after 7,000+ public comments. An active lawsuit (NMELC) is proceeding on the merits after the court denied dismissal.
Two Jupiter-connected figures are on the June 2, 2026 primary ballot.
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