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Meta Los Lunas AI Expansion
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Meta Los Lunas AI Expansion is a data center under construction in Los Lunas, New Mexico (Valencia County), operated by Meta. The public record puts it at announced December 2024, 750 acres, a reported $800 million investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Meta
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- 4250-4320 Messenger Loop NW, Los Lunas, Valencia County, NM, 87031
- Coordinates
- 34.8083, -106.7296
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 750 acres
- Investment
- $800 million
- Announced
- December 2024
- Utility
- Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM)
- Power source
- Solar
- Cooling
- Not established
- Water use
- 1.5 million gallons a day, reported
- Jobs
- 30 permanent
- Public subsidy
- Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRBs), third series, Village of Los Lunas, NM, 2024
- Community reception
- Mixed reception
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- April 2025Under constructionConstruction started spring 2025; two-to-three year build timeline Source: Data Center Dynamics
- December 2024ProposedVillage Council approved IRB authorization for AI expansion; two new buildings announced as first in Meta's portfolio dedicated to AI and ML Source: News-Bulletin (Valencia County)
- January 2016OperatingOriginal Los Lunas campus broke ground; now 7 buildings, 1.5M+ sq ft, 120MW+ operational
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Meta Los Lunas AI Expansion in Los Lunas, Valencia County, New Mexico appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Village officials credit the campus with $145 million in gross receipts tax revenue since construction began in 2016 and with 15% population growth between 2020 and 2024, and the Village Council approved industrial revenue bonds for the AI expansion; local scrutiny centres on the campus's electricity and water consumption.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
Village officials credit the campus with $145 million in gross receipts tax revenue since construction began in 2016 and with 15% population growth between 2020 and 2024, and the Village Council approved industrial revenue bonds for the AI expansion; local scrutiny centres on the campus's electricity and water consumption.
Power and water
Meta has invested in 885MW+ of renewable energy capacity in NM; PNM seeking regulatory approval for three additional solar+storage projects (Star Light, Windy Lane, Four Mile) to serve Phase 3 power demand
Existing campus is in water-stressed Middle Rio Grande basin; specific cooling type for new AI buildings not disclosed in available sources
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRBs), third series | Not established | Village of Los Lunas, NM | 2024 |
Notes on the record
Reported as the first Meta facilities explicitly dedicated to AI/ML workloads. Existing campus is 750 acres. IRBs authorize tax-exempt bond financing for construction materials, the $7.5B per series is the authorized principal ceiling, not a direct cash subsidy. Meta required to invest $350M into expansion by year 10 under agreement. Operating entity: Greater Kudu LLC.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Connect Albuquerque (Westpointe 40) · Albuquerque · Connect Data Centers (Oppidan Investment Company)19 mi · Operating · 10 MW
- H5 Data Centers Albuquerque · Albuquerque · H5 Data Centers20 mi · Operating
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Meta Los Lunas AI Expansion data center in Los Lunas?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Meta Los Lunas AI Expansion in Los Lunas, Valencia County, New Mexico appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Village officials credit the campus with $145 million in gross receipts tax revenue since construction began in 2016 and with 15% population growth between 2020 and 2024, and the Village Council approved industrial revenue bonds for the AI expansion; local scrutiny centres on the campus's electricity and water consumption.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Meta Los Lunas AI Expansion data center?
No lawsuit over Meta Los Lunas AI Expansion appears in the record we track as of September 10, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Meta Los Lunas AI Expansion use?
1.5 million gallons a day is the reported figure on record. Cooling is recorded as unknown. Existing campus is in water-stressed Middle Rio Grande basin; specific cooling type for new AI buildings not disclosed in available sources
Who operates Meta Los Lunas AI Expansion, and how big is it?
Meta is the operator on record. We hold 28 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 750 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Meta Los Lunas AI Expansion," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/meta-los-lunas-ai-nm.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/meta-los-lunas-ai-nm, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Meta planning expansion of Los Lunas data center campus in New Mexico · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Los Lunas Meta Data Center introduces expansion dedicated to AI · News-Bulletin (Valencia County) · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.New Mexico utility seeks approval of hybrid BESS offtake contracts to power Meta data centres · Energy-Storage.news · retrieved August 8, 2026
- 4.Similar to Los Alamos in 1940s, Los Lunas getting transformed by tech · The Santa Fe New Mexican · retrieved August 8, 2026
- 5.Los Lunas Meta Data Center introduces expansion dedicated to Artificial Intelligence · News-Bulletin (Valencia County) · retrieved August 20, 2026
- 6.The Desert Becomes a Data Center: Meta's $3.3 Billion Bet on Los Lunas, New Mexico · MMCG Invest (investment-analysis blog, not a primary operator/government source -- treat address and figures as reported, corroborate before treating as confirmed) · retrieved September 10, 2026
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