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Stargate Project Jupiter

Santa Teresa, Dona Ana County, New Mexico · All 6 OpenAI sites · Every OpenAI and Oracle case on our tracker

Under constructionContestedAI confirmedRecord updated October 16, 2026

Stargate Project Jupiter is a data center under construction in Santa Teresa, New Mexico (Dona Ana County), operated by OpenAI / Oracle / STACK Infrastructure. The public record puts it at announced September 23, 2025, 1,400 acres, a reported $50 billion investment. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.

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Facility record

Under construction

Operator: OpenAI / Oracle / STACK Infrastructure
Facility type: Data center, AI use confirmed
Location: Santa Teresa, Dona Ana County, NM
Coordinates: 31.8636, -106.6895
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: 1,400 acres
Investment: $50 billion
Announced: September 23, 2025
Utility: El Paso Electric
Power source: On site gas
On site generation: 2.5 GW
Cooling: Closed loop
Water use: 0.02 million gallons a day, reported
Jobs: 750 permanent; 2,500 construction
Public subsidy: Industrial Revenue Bonds (property and gross-receipts tax abatement; bond authorization up to $165B over 30 years), Doña Ana County, New Mexico, 2025
Community reception: Contested
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

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.

2026
Under construction
Foundation work confirmed via satellite imagery; estimated operational end of 2026; two lawsuits filed challenging bond approval Source: Data Center Dynamics
September 23, 2025
Proposed
Doña Ana County Board approved $165B in Industrial Revenue Bonds; 1,400 acres near US-Mexico border; two natural gas microgrids planned Source: El Paso Matters

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Stargate Project Jupiter in Santa Teresa, Dona Ana County, New Mexico is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record. The NM Environmental Law Center sued the Doña Ana County Commission over the incentive approval; Sunland Park City Council asked for a postponement; the commission approved 4-1 amid audience opposition.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.

The NM Environmental Law Center sued the Doña Ana County Commission over the incentive approval; Sunland Park City Council asked for a postponement; the commission approved 4-1 amid audience opposition. Concerns center on water use in an arid region, air quality from the gas microgrids, and the speed and opacity of approvals. Investment is $50B over 5 years (up to $165B over 30 years).

Source: Truthout

Power and water

Developers dropped the earlier plan for natural-gas turbine microgrids and now propose Bloom Energy natural-gas fuel cells that "would generate up to 2.45 gigawatts to power the data center, replacing previously planned gas turbines and diesel generators"; they withdrew their initial permit application to the New Mexico Environment Department and filed a new one detailing the fuel cells (Santa Fe New Mexican). The developer has committed to 100% carbon-free energy by 2045 via solar and battery storage.

Closed-loop recycling: 20,000 gpd daily average (0.02 MGD), 60,000 gpd maximum, plus a one-time ~10M-gallon initial fill over two years; water via Camino Real Regional Utility Authority. Truthout notes hyperscale closed-loop cooling is not yet proven at a fully operational facility.

Public money on the record

Program	Amount	Granted by	Year
Industrial Revenue Bonds (property and gross-receipts tax abatement; bond authorization up to $165B over 30 years)	Not established	Doña Ana County, New Mexico	2025

Notes on the record

No planned data-center capacity is recorded. A 1,000 MW figure for the site describes generation, not data-center capacity: when the county approved the bonds, developers said the microgrid "would produce 700 to 900 megawatts of power in its first phase, ranging up to one gigawatt" (Albuquerque Journal, December 2025). Epoch AI models the campus at 2.2 GW of planned capacity.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

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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.

Meta El Paso AI Data Center Campus · El Paso · Meta9 mi · Under construction · 1 GW · Contested

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Stargate Project Jupiter data center in Santa Teresa?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Stargate Project Jupiter data center?

The reception note on this record refers to a court proceeding. Read it in full under opposition and litigation above, and check the sources at the foot of the page for the filing itself.

How much water does Stargate Project Jupiter use?

0.02 million gallons a day is the reported figure on record. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop. Closed-loop recycling: 20,000 gpd daily average (0.02 MGD), 60,000 gpd maximum, plus a one-time ~10M-gallon initial fill over two years; water via Camino Real Regional Utility Authority.

Who operates Stargate Project Jupiter, and how big is it?

OpenAI / Oracle / STACK Infrastructure is the operator on record. We hold 6 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 1400 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Stargate Project Jupiter," updated October 16, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/stargate-project-jupiter-dona-ana-nm.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/stargate-project-jupiter-dona-ana-nm, retrieved October 29, 2026.

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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.New Mexico's Project Jupiter data center part of larger Stargate AI initiative, El Paso Matters · El Paso Matters · retrieved July 5, 2026
2.Groups sue to stall data center project in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Data Center Dynamics · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 5, 2026
3.Secretive New Mexico Data Center Plan Races Forward Despite Community Pushback · Truthout · retrieved July 6, 2026
4.Doña Ana County's Project Jupiter joins $500 billion Stargate initiative · Albuquerque Journal · retrieved July 6, 2026
5.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
6.Oracle, BorderPlex, and Bloom Energy to Power Project Jupiter with Cleaner, Water-Efficient Fuel Cell Technology · Oracle · retrieved August 8, 2026
7.NM Project Jupiter data center developers announce new plans for generating power · Source New Mexico · retrieved August 8, 2026
8.Project Jupiter developers overhaul data center's power plan · Santa Fe New Mexican · retrieved September 3, 2026
9.Project Jupiter permit applications forecast massive carbon fuel use · Albuquerque Journal · retrieved October 16, 2026
10.OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand · Epoch AI · retrieved October 16, 2026

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