By Kent Paterson If you reside in Albuquerque, have you seen a television ad for Project Jupiter? Heard a radio
Category: Sunland Park
Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond
By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting
People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open
Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact
Here’s another article critical about Project Jupiter. This critique is environmental. From Truthout.org: At the very Southeastern tip of New
The New York Times on Project Jupiter
NYTimes.com did a story about Project Jupiter Stargate Project Miner, the mega data center that is to built out there
The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup
Text and Photos by Kent Paterson Since last summer, the hyperscale AI data center under construction in Santa Teresa has
Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
By Kent Paterson Customers of the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) in the New Mexico border communities of Sunland
The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19
By Kent Paterson September 19 looms as a fateful day in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s when the Doña
Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter
Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park.
Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step
By Kent Paterson You may or may not have heard about Project Jupiter by now. No, it’s not the latest
CRRUA Update: State of New Mexico Sues
From SourceNM.com: New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility
The Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism
The evening of May 21, 2025 will surely count as one of the liveliest meetings of the Sunland Park City
CRRUA in the Whirlwind: The Future of People and Water in Sunland Park-Santa Teresa at the Crossroads
by Kent Paterson Like the wind, dust and mist that sting the spring of 2025, stormy developments surround the fundamental
The Water Crisis in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa One Year Later, Part One: Residents Seek Stricter Federal Oversight of Water Utility
By Kent Paterson Lawyers for residents of Sunland Park and Santa Teresa have requested stepped up oversight of a publicly-owned
Sunland Park Déjà Vu: Water, Management Crisis and Community Protest
By Kent Paterson Momentous days riveted April in the southern New Mexico border communities of Sunland Park and neighboring Santa