New Mexican Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham in 2025 Posted a partnership with Borderplex Digital to create Digital Infrastructure Campus in Santa Teresa.
However, Santa Teresa is joined by environmental and non -profit organizations to remove the project as a water and energy bump and a threat to local communities.
Although 2025 The project is interrupted near Pete’s Dienicic Highway, the cost of $ 5 billion over the next 10 years, living and working in the South Doña Anna County have questions about its environmental impact.
Protesters have signs indicating the proposed project at the University of the Data Center in Santa Teresa, the new Mexican Law Publishing Committee in Las Crues in 2025. August 19 Let’s meet.
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What is the project of the Borderplex Digital Infrastructure University campus?
2025 February Lujan Grisham’s office report announced the partnership between the state and the Borderplex Digital Assets, Austin, a Texas.
“Campus integrates energy and water infrastructure with advanced manufacturing, logistics and data center facilities,” the press release states. In short, the town would be equipped with data center and water purification, energy production and production projects.
“By ensuring digital infrastructure today, New Mexico is investing in its economy to create a thriving tomorrow,” Lujan Grisham said in a press release.
Lanham Napier, chairman of the Borderplex Digital Assets, said the company was excited by understanding a memorandum with New Mexico. “We firmly believe that another wave of Frontier Tech belongs to the American border,” he said.
Among the campus campus partners are El Paso Electric, Orion Digital Infrastructure, EPCOR and Local NMSU and DACC.
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How is the Doña Anna County project Jupiter?
August 26 The Doña Anna County Commissioners voted from 5 to one to announce the intention to spend $ 165 billion in industrial income bonds (IRB). The money would finance the Hypercale, an artificial (AI) data center campus, which the county called Hypercale, Hypercale.
Christopher Muirhead with Modral Sperling Bar Firm 2025 August 26 Dona Anna at the meeting of the County County Commissioners Board. Muirhead has informed the commission members of the proposed structure of industrial income bonds to finance Ana Dona Ana County.
Christopher Muirhead with the Modrall Sperling Law Firm said the commission’s vote is only the first step in the consideration of the bond issue. It is expected that public hearing will be planned on September 19, while large -scale public meetings and information sessions.
“Our faith is that your county is really special,” said Napier Doña Anna Commission members. “What makes this county so special? She sits at the intersection, Nexus, from two countries and a couple of states.” The data center will be built in Borderplex Digital Infrastructure.
“It will be transforming this community,” said Commissioner Shannon Reynolds.
In response to dozens of concerns about concerns during public comments, he said, “If someone thinks it is a lost offer for this community, we want to hear about it.”
Data centers and work
Lujan Grisham’s office said the project in Santa Teresa would create 1000 jobs in New Mexico.
Those jobs are likely to take place in Conruciton, Logisitics, IT and Manufacutirng. Lujan Grisham’s administration said this in turn would lead to the economy of the new new Mexico.
Kacey Hovden, a lawyer for the new Mexican Environment Center, who is contrary to the development of the data center, said that the actual number of permanent jobs created by such projects is much lower than advertised. She said the construction work would make most of the Intiail labor market, but it would be reduced when the construction of the university town is completed and the remaining work will be merged with non -state workers.
Water in the Central Centers of Protesters in the Development of Data Centers
The New Mexican Environmental Law Center stated that the Plan Press said in a press release “there will be a huge voltage for the regional electricity network and water supply”.
“We can’t survive without water,” in a public comment on August 26. Virginia Harrick, a resident of Las Cruces, said at a meeting of the District Commissioners of the District Commissioners. “When you are considering AI, remember to use water because we can lose water and then we could no longer be here.”
Napier said the water consumption of the project will be minimal and pays attention to its closed loop system. He also denied that it would increase the cost of local consumers or would be a burden on the energy network.
Detractors say that the Borderplex requirement is no science that its closed loop process will not affect local water supply and quality.
“The new Mexico remains a limited amount of water, while Sunland Park and Santa Teresa asked for decades of reliable and consistent access to clean and safe drinking water. However, local and state leaders are now considering buying new Mexican water and funds that are not touched, not. Teresa and the Sunland Park community, ”said Hovden.
Hovden said Santa Teresa and Sunland Park are not sacrificed zones, “and deserves to secure clean drinking water for local and state lawmakers.
“We have already encountered a lot of water quality challenges. To involve the data center in our area, we would have only more challenges. First of all, water is not enough to even think it is a good idea,” Vivian Fuller, a resident of Santa Teresa, said in a press release.
Questions and answers: We are strictly compressed because the needs of water are rising The passage
What is the price of the data center?
A Facts sheet provided by the Center for New Mexico Environment Laws US centers are said to consume an average of 1.8 billion gallons of drinking water a year – 5 million gallons per day. This pointed out the expected life expectancy of data centers – from 10 to 15 years, often operating without remedy plans to eliminate water loss.
He said drinking water is not a solution to data centers that have to operate with “clean” drinking water – otherwise known as drinking water. This, she said, often increased water prices for consumers in places where data centers are.
The fact sheet states that the data center operations will drain the limited water supply of the new Mexico, which has been exposed to prolonged drought. Los Lunas, where the Meta data center is, according to NMELC, direct water consumption increased by 300% to 74 million gallons in five years.
VIC Kolenca from the El Paso Times contributed to this report.
This article initially appeared in Las Cruces Sun-News: Data Center raises water concern in Santa Teresa