Data center campus
Stargate Doña Ana County / Project Jupiter (New Mexico)
Stargate Doña Ana County / Project Jupiter is an AI data center campus developed by Oracle in New Mexico, Santa Teresa. 2.20 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Under construction · Oracle · Private land · WECC · Santa Teresa, New Mexico, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 2.20 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
Promised online: Q4 2026. 2 months away. Claimed by STACK Infrastructure / BorderPlex Digital Assets (source).
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 2.20 GW | 2026-04-17 | claimed | journalist report |
| Energized | 0 GW | 2026-07-01 | reported | journalist report |
Key facts
Lifecycle
Announced
Energized
Developer
Location
Grid
Land
Facilities tracked
Reported facts
Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.
- Also known as
- Project Jupiter
- Location
- Doña Ana County, New Mexico (Santa Teresa area)
- Developer
- STACK Infrastructure (Oracle-led)
- Lifecycle (reported)
- Under construction; foundation work seen in satellite imagery
- Planned capacity (reported)
- About 2.2 GW; part of about 5.5 GW across three Oracle-led sites
- Cooling
- Closed-loop; about 20,000 gal/day domestic water proposed
- On-site power
- Two natural-gas microgrids; net-zero target by 2045
- First GW target
- H2 2026; initial operations Q4 2026
- Incentive
- Industrial revenue bond approved
- Utility
- El Paso Electric
- Force majeure (reported, Sep 2026)
- Oracle sent a force majeure notice on payment timing; Oracle says schedule unchanged.
- Delay (reported, Sep 2026)
- About one-year delay reported; Blue Owl holds about $3B of equity
- Open issues (reported, Oct 2026)
- Gas supply, air permit and land access unresolved; pipeline in service Feb 1 2027.
- Renewable energy RFP (company-stated, Sep 2026)
- Oracle seeks proposals for 2 GW of new New Mexico solar, wind and geothermal deliverable 2027 to 2031, toward 100% carbon-free energy matching for the campus by 2031.
On the data center map
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Approximate pin. We hold a city-level coordinate for this campus, not a verified site coordinate, so the marker shows the city rather than the parcel. The satellite strip and building outlines stay off until the site coordinate is sourced.
- Jobs
- 750 permanent reported
- Water
- 20K gal/day (77 households)
- Cooling
- Closed-loop cooling system
- Tenant
- OpenAI
Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.
In clusterNew Mexico(29)
The deal
- developer
- STACK Infrastructure · Developer/builder of Project Jupiter (four buildings).
- tenant
- OpenAI · Anchor tenant / Stargate program lead.
- developer
- Oracle · Oracle-led site under the Stargate expansion; contracts compute to OpenAI.
- chip supplier
- NVIDIA · GPU supplier across the Stargate program.
- developer
- BorderPlex Digital Assets · Austin-based co-developer of Project Jupiter alongside STACK Infrastructure.
- utility
- El Paso Electric · Regional utility serving the Santa Teresa / Doña Ana County area (WECC).
- developer
- Stargate Infrastructure
Power
- Power source
- behind the meter gas
- Grid operator
- WECC
- Interconnection
- Water
- Closed-loop cooling; proposed domestic water use ~20,000 gallons/day; on-site microgrid targeting net-zero emissions by 2045.
Project Jupiter on-site natural gas microgrids, gas, Under construction. Two natural gas microgrids to power the campus behind the meter; individual capacity not disclosed (0.0 = unknown, not zero).
On-site natural gas turbine microgrid, gas, Announced. Natural gas turbine system with microgrid designed to meet net-zero emission targets by 2045.
County water status: No drought in Dona Ana County, week of 2026-11-03 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.
Silicon on site
Every AI chip publicly attributed to Stargate Doña Ana County / Project Jupiter (New Mexico) on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.
- as of 2025-01-21
Planned Blackwell capacity (Nvidia default for new Stargate builds; specific SKU pending disclosure)
inferredInferred from Stargate program's consistent Blackwell posture per OpenAI + Nvidia partnership; upgrade when G42/OpenAI confirms
Why here
Stargate Doña Ana County / Project Jupiter sits on private land in New Mexico, Santa Teresa. It connects to the WECC grid, draws on behind the meter gas power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.
Financial structure
- Industrial revenue bond approved
- up to $165B. Up to $165 billion industrial revenue bond approved by Doña Ana County commissioners to finance the campus. journalist report
Regulatory paper trail
The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.
Investment, workforce and specs
Facilities at this campus
- Oracle Dona Ana County AI Data Centerhyperscale
Timeline
- Aug 2026party addedutility: El Paso Electric
- Nov 2026Current: Under construction
Sources
- OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites · OpenAI
- OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand · Epoch AI
- Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on data center, Bloomberg News reports · Reuters
- Oracle shares drop on report it sent 'force majeure' notice about data center project · CNBC
- Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center · TechCrunch
- Oracle, Blue Owl project delay sends ripples through AI financing, sources say · Reuters
- Oracle invokes force majeure on Project Jupiter, but says data center still on track · Albuquerque Journal
- Oracle invokes force majeure on New Mexico AI data center · Quartz
- Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter · The Register
- Oracle Invokes Force Majeure as New Mexico Project Jupiter Power Work Faces Hurdles · Engineering News-Record
- AI Data Center Delays Raise New Questions For ORCL, BE And APLD, Says IO Fund · Stocktwits
- X post on Project Jupiter delays · X/@venaodiver
- Oracle Issues RFP for 2 GW of Renewable Energy in New Mexico · Oracle
4c5d91e2-9598-4b3c-9128-702828bf4251 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.
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DEPLOY. (2026). Stargate Doña Ana County / Project Jupiter (New Mexico): AI data center campus record. Retrieved November 11, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/stargate-dona-ana-county-new-mexico
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