Austin-Based Company Says It Plans to Spend $165 Billion on New Mexico Data Center Campus Near El Paso. Here’s What to Know.

Austin-based company says it plans to spend $165 billion on New Mexico data center campus near El Paso. Here’s what to know.

After a scene that could have been pulled out of the 2025 film “Eddington,” the Doña Ana Board of County Commissioners this week advanced a deal with an Austin-based firm that says it plans to invest an almost-inconceivable sum – $165 billion – to build an infrastructure campus that will house data centers in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.   Much like the movie’s mayor hyped a data center in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, Doña Ana commi…

'You can't drink data.' Public debates Santa Teresa data center

LAS CRUCES — A large data center proposed for Santa Teresa drew opponents as well as supporters from the public Tuesday as Doña Ana County commissioners heard a proposal for a large tax incentive package to help build it.