Money and jobs
As filed: The signed agreement binds the company to 750 jobs and about $12 million a year, for a project valued at up to $165 billion.
The fix: Tie the bond benefit to jobs verified each year and fund a training institute on site: about 3,000 jobs and about $1 billion over 30 years, for about 1.5% more.
See it drawn →Heat
As filed: About 2,400 MW of warmth, roughly 90,000 home furnaces' worth, is blown into the desert by fans.
The fix: One plate heat exchanger before the dry coolers sends it to 150 acres of greenhouses in winter and to absorption chillers and the water plant in summer.
See it drawn →Carbon and smog
As filed: About 10 million tons of CO₂ a year, with each smog gas kept just under the strict-review line, over a valley that already fails the ozone standard.
The fix: The dried exhaust is about 95% CO₂, so capture skids catch it for use in greenhouses and concrete, under one permit with a public meter on every stack.
See it drawn →Water
As filed: Drinking water taken from the local utility and more pumped from the fresh aquifer; 103 million gallons went to construction in five months.
The fix: NMSU's 5 MGD brackish plant, designed and priced in 2023, turns salty groundwater into clean water for the towns, as El Paso has done since 2007.
See it drawn →Retire the gas
As filed: Every hour of power is a gas hour. Rooftop solar alone covers about 1% of the load.
The fix: Geothermal test wells in Phase 1 and a delivered-wind contract cut gas hours every year, on a schedule toward the state's 2045 zero.
See it drawn →Food and jobs
As filed: The acres beside the fans stay bare desert, and the region imports the produce it eats.
The fix: Growers lease 150 acres with heat and CO₂ piped in: about 60 million pounds of food a year and about 1,000 jobs, on grower money.
See it drawn →Words used on this page · tap to open
- MW
- One megawatt is a million watts, a rate of energy flow. As heat, 1 MW is about 38 home gas furnaces running flat out. As electricity, 1 MW is roughly what 750 U.S. homes draw on average. The campus needs 2,462 MW of electricity and throws off about the same in heat.[44][45][4]
- MGD
- Million gallons per day, the standard unit for water plants. 1 MGD is about the daily use of 3,300 homes at 300 gallons a home.[46]
- tons/yr
- Tons per year is how air permits count pollution. A ton is 2,000 pounds; a full dump truck carries about 10 tons.
- CO₂e
- Carbon-dioxide equivalent. Methane and other gases are converted to the amount of CO₂ that would warm the planet the same amount, so one number covers them all.
- capture efficiency
- Not the same as purity. Purity (about 95%) is how much of the exhaust is CO₂. Efficiency (90–95%) is how much of that CO₂ the unit removes. Whatever it misses is released.[3][15]
- brackish
- Water with 1,000 to 10,000 milligrams of dissolved salt per liter. Seawater is about 35,000. It looks clear; the salt is dissolved.[19]
- PSD
- A federal permitting review that applies when a plant emits 250 tons a year or more of a pollutant. It requires the best available controls. The filed permit keeps each pollutant just under 250 tons, so the review is not triggered.[3]
- Title V
- Title V of the Clean Air Act: the operating permit every major source must hold, with monitoring and public reporting.[3]
- nonattainment
- EPA's label for an area whose air fails a health standard. Sunland Park has been an ozone nonattainment area since Aug. 3, 2018.[49]
- IRB
- Industrial revenue bonds. The county holds title to the project and leases it back, so the developer pays negotiated payments instead of property tax for 30 years. The lease is the county's enforcement tool.[1][12]
- CBA
- The Community Benefits Agreement signed Nov. 12, 2025. It sets the binding jobs (750 full-time), the water cap, the $11.4M in programs and the site size (about 819 acres).[1]
PROJECT JUPITER IMPACTForce Upgrade
| Economic Impact | Annual Average | Duration (Years) | Their Total | + Upgrade | = Upgraded Total (Phase 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Receipts Tax / Sales Tax During Construction | — | 3 | $600M | + $50M | $650M |
| Additional Estimated Economic Activity During Construction | ~$384M → ~$415M | 3 | $1.15B | + $100M | $1.25B |
| Gross Receipts Tax / Sales Tax During Operations (1)(2) | $40M → $42M | 17 | $680M | + $40M | $720M |
| Additional Economic Activity During Operations (1)(2) | ~$113M → ~$155M | 17 | $1.92B | + $680M | $2.6B |
| Industrial Revenue Bond – Schools, Infrastructure, Services (3) | $12M → $33M | 30 | $360M | + $640M | $1.0B |
| Workforce Development & Community Programs (4) | — | — | $6.9M | + $43M | $50M |
| Greenhouse Land Lease & Heat Sales to Growers (5) | ~$20M | 17 | — | + $340M | $340M |
| Total | $4.7B | + $1.9B | $6.6B |
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PROJECT JUPITER KEY COMPONENTSUpgrade
Their August 2026 site render labels eleven things: four data centers, a warehouse, an operations building, a secure entrance and exit, a guard booth, a security fence, a transformer yard, modular chiller plants marked closed loop, and rows of dry coolers on the far edge. The upgrade moves none of them. Cars still enter at the guard booth and park at Operations. Trucks still unload at the Warehouse. The transformer yard still steps the microgrid's power down for the servers.
Two things the render does not show. First, the fuel cells: NMED's permit places a 2,462 MW plant with 2,275 exhaust stacks about 3.6 miles south of Santa Teresa, fed by a pipeline of up to 400 million cubic feet a day. Second, the property line. The signed agreement says about 819 acres with a 400-acre first phase; the render shows that phase. Which acres are unbuilt has not been published.
- [6] Project Jupiter Site Render, Labeled (media gallery). Project Jupiter Together, Aug. 27, 2026. link ↗
- [4] Amended Notice of Public Hearing, AQB 26-57(P), NSR 10883. New Mexico Environment Department, Aug. 12, 2026. link ↗
- [3] Draft Statement of Basis, NSR Permit 10883 — YGI Microgrid. New Mexico Environment Department, Air Quality Bureau, July 29, 2026. link ↗
- [1] Project Jupiter Community Benefits Agreement (executed). Doña Ana County / Red Chiles A–D LLC / Yucca Growth Infrastructure LLC, Nov. 12, 2025. link ↗
- [38] New Mexico regulators reject natural gas pipeline for Oracle's 2.5GW Project Jupiter data center. Data Center Dynamics, 2026. link ↗
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INDUSTRIAL REVENUE BONDS (IRB)Upgrade
No Financial Risk to County. Conditions Attached.
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WHAT PROJECT JUPITER MEANSUpgrade
THE UPGRADE GIVES THE EARTH AND THE VALLEY:
- The CO₂ caught and used, and every ton of smog on a public meter
- 5 million gallons a day of clean water added, not taken
- About 60 million pounds of food a year grown on the computers' heat
- Gas machines that rest more every year as geothermal and wind take over
- About 3,000 permanent jobs for people who live here, instead of 750
THE PLAN AS FILED GIVES THEM:
- About 10 million tons of CO₂ a year into the sky
- Each smog gas kept just under the strict-review line, over a town that already fails the standard
- Drinking water taken and more pumped from the fresh aquifer
- All the heat blown into the desert
- 750 jobs and $12 million a year
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HELP IMPROVE THIS PLAN
Everything on this site is public record or published research, assembled by one NMSU computer-science student in a few days of reading. That is not enough people, and no one here claims these are the best possible ideas. If you are an engineer, a grower, a water operator, a lawyer, a Bloom or Oracle employee, a neighbor in Sunland Park, or a legislator, and you see a flaw, a better method, a missing source, or a cheaper way to reach the same result, send it. Corrections are welcome and will be posted with credit.
If Project Jupiter goes ahead, the goal is not to fight it forever. It is to make it the project New Mexico should have been offered in the first place: one that works with the county instead of on top of it.