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Santa Teresa, NM

Santa Teresa, New Mexico is located approximately 45 miles south of El Paso near the U.S.-Mexico border and has been identified as a potential site for data center development due to its proximity to the Texas power grid and relatively lower real estate costs compared to major metropolitan areas.

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May 7, 2026

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Trump Districts Hold 59% of Texas Datacenters. The 2027 Session Just Got Interesting.

Project Jupiter's $165 billion Santa Teresa build, which surfaced from a closed Doña Ana County commission meeting, just pivoted from gas plants to fuel cells, a 30% emissions cut Oracle announced reactively rather than proactively.

May 2, 2026

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Federal AI Build Picks Gas in Months While Ohio's 9.2 GW Stalls

Stack Fort Bliss next to Meta's $10 billion El Paso facility and the $165 billion Oracle/OpenAI Project Jupiter campus in Santa Teresa, and the Borderland is suddenly competing for water and firm megawatts at a scale the region's utilities haven't sized for.

February 15, 2026

Developers Face a Choice: Disclose or Lose the Next $46 Billion

In Santa Teresa, NM, Stack Infrastructure disclosed for the first time that its $165 billion Project Jupiter would use 20,000 gallons per day via closed-loop cooling, a fraction of the 750,000 gallons daily planned for Meta's El Paso facility.

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