Data Center Registry

Zenith Volts Roswell / Chaves County Data Center

Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico

PermittedSupportedAI likelyRecord updated October 17, 2026

Zenith Volts Roswell / Chaves County Data Center is a permitted data center in Roswell, New Mexico (Chaves County), operated by Zenith Volts Corp. The public record puts it at 1.2 GW planned, 300 acres, a reported $11.7 billion investment. It has documented public support and no documented opposition.

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Facility record

Permitted

Operator: Zenith Volts Corp.
Facility type: Data center, AI use likely
Location: Roswell, Chaves County, NM
Coordinates: 33.1400, -104.5200 (approximate)
Power capacity: 1.2 GW planned
Land: 300 acres
Investment: $11.7 billion
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Not established from a public source
Power source: Mixed
Cooling: Closed loop
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: 140 permanent
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: Supported
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.

2026
Permitted
Chaves County Commission approved; 300-acre initial footprint within an 8,500-acre approved site; targets November 2027 operational. Source: PR Newswire

Opposition and litigation at this site

Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Zenith Volts Roswell / Chaves County Data Center in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of October 17, 2026. Chaves County Commission approved the special-use permit for the project on August 22, 2025; no organized opposition or dissent is reported across multiple independent news accounts of the approval.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: supported means local officials or residents have expressed public support and no opposition is documented.

Chaves County Commission approved the special-use permit for the project on August 22, 2025; no organized opposition or dissent is reported across multiple independent news accounts of the approval.

Source

Power and water

Chaves County-approved plan integrates on-site solar, natural gas generators for backup, modular solar-thermal hybrid systems and a 250-acre battery energy storage system across the wider 8,500-acre site. The capacity of each individual power element has not been disclosed.

Plan calls for geothermal cooling; no water-withdrawal figure has been disclosed.

Notes on the record

Approximately 20 miles south of Roswell. Chaves County Commission approved; 300-acre initial footprint within an 8,500-acre approved site. On-site solar, gas, geothermal, and battery storage. Targets November 2027 operational; approximately 140 FTE jobs.

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

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Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

Tax abatements or other public subsidy: The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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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.

Roswell Information Park · Roswell · Roswell Information Park LLC (developer Sustany LLC)18 mi · Proposed

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Zenith Volts Roswell / Chaves County Data Center in Roswell?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Zenith Volts Roswell / Chaves County Data Center?

No lawsuit over Zenith Volts Roswell / Chaves County Data Center appears in the record we track as of October 17, 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 Zenith Volts Roswell / Chaves County Data Center use?

No water withdrawal figure for Zenith Volts Roswell / Chaves County Data Center is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Zenith Volts Roswell / Chaves County Data Center, and how big is it?

Zenith Volts Corp. is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 1.2 GW. The site is recorded at 300 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Zenith Volts Roswell / Chaves County Data Center," updated October 17, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/zenith-volts-roswell-chaves-county-data-center-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/zenith-volts-roswell-chaves-county-data-center-nm, retrieved October 29, 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.Zenith Volts Corp secures county approval for scalable data center 20 miles south of Roswell, NM · PR Newswire · retrieved September 3, 2026 · original offline, archived copy from October 1, 2026
2.Zenith obtains planning approval for 1.24GW data center project in Roswell, New Mexico · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved August 8, 2026
3.Chaves County (chavescounty.net) · retrieved July 26, 2026
4.Pacifico, Zenith Volts and Fermi America propose gigawatt-scale energy solutions with BESS to feed US data centres · Energy-Storage.news · retrieved September 21, 2026
5.Chaves County approves data center project amid rising demand for computing infrastructure · Yahoo News · retrieved September 15, 2026
6.Chaves County approves data center project amid rising demand for computing infrastructure · Albuquerque Journal · retrieved October 17, 2026
7.Zenith Volts Corp. secures county approval for scalable data center 20 miles south of Roswell, NM · Newswire.ca · retrieved October 17, 2026

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