New Mexico Agency Rejects Data Center's Applications for Gas Pipeline Right of Way

New Mexico agency rejects data center's applications for gas pipeline right of way

The proposed $60 million pipeline would bring natural gas to two plants with gas-fired turbines that would power the massive Project Jupiter.

NM state land commissioner rejects application for gas pipeline to power Project Jupiter data center

A map of the proposed pipeline Energy Transfer submitted in its January 2026 application to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Via FERC)The New Mexico State Land Office has denied a request by a Texas energy company to build a segment of a 17-mile pipeline to fuel the Project Jupiter data center in Southern New Mexico. The $60-million project, dubbed the “Green Chile Project,” would pipe 400,000 dekatherms of gas from El Paso daily …