[Lwvcnmtopics] LWVCNM - Monthly Meeting - Thursday November 12th at Noon - Hyperscale Data Centers in New Mexico - Data Center and MicroGrid Study Committee

Tue Nov 3 15:19:33 MST 2026

Please join us for our November Monthly meeting on November 12th at Noon.
This is your opportunity to learn more about Hyperscale Data Centers and
find out what they are. The Zoom Invitation is after the description.

*  NOVEMBER EDUCATIONAL MEETING*

*   Thursday, November 12th at Noon*

*WHERE: **LWVCNM Offices Conference Room, 6739 Academy Rd. NE, ample
parking available.   In person (members and guests only);  Zoom (members
and general public)*

*TOPIC:  HYPERSCALE DATA CENTERS IN NEW MEXICO             *

*SPEAKERS: THE DATA CENTER & MICROGRID STUDY COMMITTEE OF THE LWVCNM*

*This will be a hybrid meeting at 12 PM with in-person attendance in the
LWVCNM conference room.*

The Data Center and Microgrid Study Committee will present information
about its ongoing study for this general meeting of the League of Women
Voters of Central New Mexico. The nine-member study committee has spent the
last six months learning about data centers in New Mexico, their impact on
the environment, the kinds of jobs they bring to the state, and the current
state of the electric grid.

There are more data centers in Albuquerque than any other area of the
state. Of the four counties the Central New Mexico League covers, only
Bernalillo and Valencia have operating data centers. The cluster of data
centers in Albuquerque is mostly in the downtown area and are small scale;
the largest draws about six megawatts. The Public Service Company of New
Mexico’s electric grid has been able to absorb their power needs, and they
have all received air quality permits for back-up generators and are
connected to the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Authority.

Hyperscale data centers are different. Meta’s data center in Los Lunas
began on a small scale and has over the past 10 years grown into a
hyperscale data center. It has had a complex growth pattern, requiring that
PNM design and build a separate electric substation, paid for by Meta.
Meta’s growth was slow and manageable, but we are seeing a new wave of
development in which an enormous project is announced and local communities
are forced to react. Here’s what is happening all around us.

Hyperscale data centers are bringing enormous change to New Mexico. They
are defined by the Congressional Research Service as having more than 5,000
servers in buildings of more than 10,000 square feet, and drawing more than
100 megawatts of electricity.

Project Jupiter, a hyperscale artificial intelligence learning data center
near Santa Teresa, is being built for Oracle and Chat GBT. It plans to
build a fuel-cell microgrid capable of generating nearly as much power as
the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), the largest investor-owned
electric utility in the state, generates.

Google has announced that it is exploring the possibility of building a
7-gigawatt hyperscale data center capable of generating about 3 times the
amount of electricity generated by PNM near Hobbs in Lea County.

What does that actually mean for our air quality, our water use, our
economy, our landscape and our pocketbooks? We will have a chance to talk
about the changes the data centers are bringing, and some things the state
and local governments might do to enhance their positive impacts and
mitigate their negative impacts.

LWVCNM is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Hyperscale Data Centers in New Mexico
Time: Nov 12, 2026 12:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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