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Another Actor Suddenly Exits the Doña Ana County Political Stage

2026-07-23 Kent Paterson Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Politics, Project Jupiter, Slider, Sunland Park One comment

By Kent Paterson Government in Doña Ana County is in turmoil. The shakeups continued this week as the Doña Ana

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How Government Works

2026-07-22 Rich Wright Debt, Deck Park, Economic Development, National Policy, Politics, Project Jupiter, Slider, Taxes, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

Some people are talking a lot about the evils of socialism these days. None of the other isms are pure

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The Data Center Chronicles: The Battle of Jupiter Comes to Albuquerque

2026-07-06 Kent Paterson Data Centers, Project Jupiter, Sunland Park Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson If you reside in Albuquerque, have you seen a television ad for Project Jupiter? Heard a radio

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Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

2026-04-16 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Data Centers, Project Jupiter, Slider, Sunland Park, Water One comment

By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting

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People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

2026-03-31 Kent Paterson Slider, Data Centers, Meta, Project Jupiter 3 comments

By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open

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Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact

2025-12-17 Rich Wright The Environment, Economic Development, Project Jupiter, Slider, Water Leave a comment

Here’s another article critical about Project Jupiter. This critique is environmental. From Truthout.org: At the very Southeastern tip of New

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The New York Times on Project Jupiter

2025-12-11 elrichiboy New Mexico, Project Jupiter, Slider Leave a comment

NYTimes.com did a story about Project Jupiter Stargate Project Miner, the mega data center that is to built out there

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The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup

2025-12-06 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Project Jupiter, Slider, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

Text and Photos by Kent Paterson Since last summer, the hyperscale AI data center under construction in Santa Teresa has

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The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19

2025-09-17 Kent Paterson Project Jupiter, CRRUA, Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson September 19 looms as a fateful day in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s when the Doña

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