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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Hill County Moratorium Heads to Federal Court. Every Texas County Is Watching.
Project Jupiter in Santa Teresa cut water demand from nearly one million gallons per day to 20,000 by swapping turbines for fuel cells, but residents are still organizing because BorderPlex disclosed only under public records pressure.
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.
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.
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.