Oracle is proud to be the tenant of southern New Mexico’s Project Jupiter, a world-class AI data center campus that will bring high-quality jobs, sustainable infrastructure, and long-term economic benefits to Doña Ana County while strengthening America’s position in the global AI race.

With 147 active data centers around the world, and 64 more on the way, Oracle has deep experience in building data centers. We leverage this expertise to ensure our campuses meet the needs of both our customers and the communities we’re a part of - Doña Ana County is no exception.

We expect to see a boost to Doña Ana County’s economy by approximately $384 million each year during construction and, once operational, we’ll create an estimated $113 million per year in direct economic output.

The State and County expect to receive over $600 million in Gross Revenue Tax payments, according to a study by the New Mexico Economic Development Department. Additionally, our investments include $360 million in direct payments to Doña Ana County to improve schools, infrastructure, and local services, and an additional $50 million to help the county fix, build and repair its water systems. Residents deserve better than the aging water infrastructure in place today, which continues to leave the community vulnerable to water-quality challenges, including naturally occurring arsenic and salinity, along with agricultural byproducts and other contaminants. Our investment will help modernize Doña Ana County’s water systems, improving resiliency, water quality, and reliability for residents and businesses.

We’re also making over $6.9 million in supplemental community investments, including establishing a local workforce development education fund and a $1.5 million donation to the Boys and Girls Club of Las Cruces.

Collectively, these are transformative investments that will substantively improve how people live and work across the county.

Oracle will occupy the campus once construction is complete, deploying the latest AI infrastructure for our customer, OpenAI. It will benefit local workers, families, and businesses by design. While original forecasts anticipated creation of 750 permanent jobs and 2,500 jobs during construction, Oracle and its development partners expect the campus will exceed those initial projections, generating approximately 4,000 construction jobs during development and up to 1,500 jobs onsite or in the county once construction is complete. We’re committed to hiring locally, working alongside trade schools, community colleges, universities, and workforce development organizations to train residents for a career in technology, and we look forward to forging new partnerships with local businesses across New Mexico to provide needed services for the campus.

Oracle Academy, our global philanthropic education program, is already expanding in New Mexico and partnering with local institutions and educators, including New Mexico State University and Doña Ana Community College, to teach computer science, computer information systems, and project management in their classrooms.

Our commitment to the Las Cruces area goes well beyond these sizeable economic and vocational benefits. It’s largely understood that AI data centers typically require significant amounts of water for cooling. Some data centers consume millions of gallons of water daily through evaporative cooling systems. Our data center buildings are engineered to achieve our goals without this significant water demand and strain on New Mexico’s water resources.

Our data centers use a closed-loop, non-evaporative cooling system that doesn’t draw water from the local water system. This means our water tanks only need to be filled once. After our four data center buildings are complete, the buildings’ daily operational water consumption will primarily come from kitchen, restroom and breakroom use and will be comparable to a typical office building.

We know energy affordability is a real concern for New Mexico residents. The data center will use its own dedicated microgrid that operates independently of the public grid, ensuring no impact to rate payers. Oracle will pay for the campus’s energy costs, funding new onsite transmission lines, battery storage, and a dedicated substation – maintaining energy reliability and ensuring these costs are not passed on to ratepayers. Microgrid power will be delivered by gas turbines that use state-of-the-art emission control devices and continuous emissions monitoring, ensuring all systems meet or exceed state and federal air quality standards. Installed pollution controls will exceed US EPA’s stringent new standards issued this month by 50% or more. We are actively working to identify and integrate renewable energy sources into our data center’s microgrid and the upstream grid more broadly as the project moves forward, ensuring we meet or exceed New Mexico's 2045 net-zero goals.

American AI innovation will advance breakthroughs in medicine, transform American education for our children, and fortify our national security, but only if America remains the preeminent leader in AI. Our site in New Mexico, along with our other AI data centers in Texas, Michigan and Wisconsin, will propel American leadership in AI and drive prosperity in these communities for generations to come.