A ninth paper trail · Santa Teresa, New Mexico
A $165B headline still leaves the public reading the fine print.
Project Jupiter puts the central data-center question in plain view: who gets to structure the deal, who gets the power, and what can the public actually inspect? County approval is documented. The reported financing scale, permit fight, and changing power plan still need to be read as separate records.
What the paper trail shows
El Paso Matters reported that Doña Ana County commissioners approved the Project Jupiter data-center proposal in September 2025. The tracker record reports a $165 billion project-cost field and a 700 MW figure, but those are project context—not proof of public spending, an executed financing amount, energized service, or IT load.
In January 2026, the New Mexico Environmental Law Center described a demand for public access around the air-quality permits. Then Oracle opened public review of an updated power plan describing a Bloom fuel-cell microgrid. That planned onsite-generation design does not answer the separate questions about utility terms, fuel supply, ratepayer exposure, water quantities, or who ultimately controls the campus.