Project Jupiter
An AI data center campus near Santa Teresa built by STACK Infrastructure and BorderPlex Digital Assets for Oracle, with its own fuel-cell power plant, backed by up to $165 billion in county industrial revenue bonds. Also known as: Stargate (Doña Ana County site), YGI Microgrid (power plant).
Who is behind it
BorderPlex Digital Assets
Yucca Growth Infrastructure LLC (microgrid)
Oracle (through Oracle America Cloud Services LLC, formerly Green Chile Ventures LLC)
The record, newest first
The air permit hearing was set to begin Dec. 7, 2026 in Sunland Park, with an Oct. 26 hearing on a motion to dismiss the permit case. (Source New Mexico, Oct. 19, 2026)
Oracle told county commissioners that 4,393 construction workers had worked on the site to date; the county lists first operations for the fourth quarter of 2026 and completion of the first 400-acre phase, with the microgrid, for the third quarter of 2028. (Oracle, presentation to the Doña Ana County Board of County Commissioners (posted by the county), Oct. 13, 2026; Doña Ana County, Oct. 23, 2026)
Oracle sent a force majeure notice to STACK's owner, Blue Owl, to protect its contract rights if the campus is not online in 2028; Oracle said the project remained on schedule. (Engineering News-Record, Sept. 28, 2026)
The Supreme Court denied both petitions without explanation and lifted both pauses. (Albuquerque Journal, Sept. 17, 2026)
The New Mexico Supreme Court paused the air permit proceeding at the request of New Energy Economy and, separately, the emergency well authorization at the request of the Center for Biological Diversity. (New Mexico Political Report (reporting by Organ Mountain News), Aug. 24, 2026)
The companies reported about $4.7 billion invested through June 30, 2026, with the data center about 9% and the microgrid about 10% complete and roughly 2,100 construction workers on average. (Yucca Growth Infrastructure LLC and Oracle America Cloud Services LLC, filed with Doña Ana County, July 31, 2026)
The state Environment Department ruled the microgrid's air permit application (No. 10883) complete and said it intended to issue the permit, subject to public comment. (New Mexico Environment Department, Air Quality Bureau (posted by Doña Ana County), May 27, 2026; New Mexico Environment Department, Air Quality Bureau (posted by Doña Ana County), May 27, 2026)
Oracle said the campus would run on up to 2.45 GW of Bloom Energy fuel cells instead of the gas turbines and diesel generators planned before. (Oracle (news release), April 27, 2026)
A district judge ruled the residents' challenge could go forward and ordered the county to produce the full administrative record. (Albuquerque Journal, March 24, 2026)
The developers and the county signed a community benefits agreement covering about 819 acres, tied to the bonds. (Doña Ana County, Nov. 12, 2025)
The New Mexico Environmental Law Center sued on behalf of two area residents, both involved with the community group Empowerment Congress of Doña Ana County, asking the court to review the county's three Project Jupiter ordinances, declare them void and pause them while the case is heard; a separate Open Meetings Act suit over a closed session before the bond vote followed in February 2026. (KVIA, Oct. 27, 2025; Albuquerque Journal, March 24, 2026)
Officials announced the site as part of the Stargate program, with Oracle leasing the campus for 18 years and OpenAI as its main user. (Albuquerque Journal, Sept. 23, 2025)
County commissioners voted 4-1 to authorize up to $165 billion in industrial revenue bonds for the power plant and four data center buildings; Commissioner Susana Chaparro voted against. (Doña Ana County Board of County Commissioners, Sept. 19, 2025; Doña Ana County, Oct. 23, 2026)
BorderPlex Digital Assets and the Governor's office signed a memorandum backing data center campuses with private microgrids, brackish-water treatment and state incentives. (Office of the Governor of New Mexico and BorderPlex Digital Assets (posted by Doña Ana County), Feb. 25, 2025)
Conflicts and open questions
- Acreage differs: the community benefits agreement says about 819 acres of private land; reporting in September 2025 said 1,400 acres; the county says the first phase is about 400 acres.
- The lawsuits are described from news reports of the court actions; the court files were not opened. In the sources reviewed, no court had ruled on the merits of either suit.
- The two residents who joined the district court case are private individuals and are not named here.
The full record
- Status note
- Data center buildings are under construction; the on-site power plant still needs a state air permit, with a hearing set to start Dec. 7, 2026.
- Power note
- Up to 2,450 MW is the capacity of the on-site fuel-cell power plant Oracle announced for the campus (Engineering News-Record, citing the air permit application, gives 2,462 MW); it is a power plant figure, not the data centers' own load. The data centers' IT load is not stated in the county or state records reviewed. Left out of the power field and the state's power total because it measures generation, not data center load.
- Evidence
- Primary public records
- Size class
- 50 MW or more (tracker scope)