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Manuel Lujan Jr.; signed the secret BorderPlex MOU ~Feb 2025. Appointed Keyes to EDD (2019)", "sources": [ { "label": "Office of the Governor — Feb. 25, 2025 press release announcing BorderPlex Digital partnership and MOU ($5B Santa Teresa campus, 1,000 jobs)", "url": "https://www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/02/25/governor-announces-partnership-with-borderplex-digital-digital-infrastructure-campus-represents-5-billion-investment-in-santa-teresa-expected-to-create-1000-jobs/", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Santa Fe New Mexican — 'Behind-the-scenes deals in New Mexico paved the road to Project Jupiter' (details the Feb. 25, 2025 MOU she signed committing state policy support)", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/behind-the-scenes-deals-in-new-mexico-paved-the-road-to-project-jupiter/article_3917f534-44b4-4fcc-955e-e5da7ce920de.html", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "haussamen.com — 'Developer must guarantee Project Jupiter's rosy promises' (documents her MOU with BorderPlex chairman Lanham Napier, pledged state assistance, and HB 93 microgrid language she signed)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2025/09/03/developer-must-guarantee-project-jupiters-rosy-promises/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Wikipedia — Michelle Lujan Grisham (biography: Governor since 2019, spouse Manuel Cordova)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Lujan_Grisham", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "announced", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD11", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "BorderPlex–State of NM MOU (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE41", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "HB 93 signed w/ microgrid/ETA carve-out (Apr 8 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "term-limited-out-by", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE51", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM gubernatorial election (Nov 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "appointed", "raw": "appointed", "label": "Appointed", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP19", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Alicia Keyes", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/alicia-keyes" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE73", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Gov signs HB 137 Strategic Water Supply Act (Apr 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "issued-by", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD19", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Governor's Feb 25 2025 BorderPlex press release", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "targets", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC70", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Move 1: Executive capture via MOU", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE1", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "MOU signed (Feb 25 2025, pre-public)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE38", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "BorderPlex announces $5B Digital Infrastructure Campus (Mar 20 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "pressured", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE90", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "WQCC reverses itself on the WATR petition (Nov 14 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-02-25", "2025-04-08", "2026-11-03" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP2", "type": "person", "name": "Lanham Napier", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/lanham-napier", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Chairman and co-founder of BorderPlex Digital Assets (developer of Project Jupiter); co-founder of BuildGroup (chairman per El Paso Matters, Aug 2025; CEO per his Rice Business bio); former Rackspace CEO", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chairman and co-founder", "org": "PJO4", "current": true, "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Co-founder and CEO", "org": "PJO51", "current": true, "src": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Principal", "org": "PJO61", "current": true }, { "title": "CEO", "org_label": "Rackspace", "current": false, "src": [ 3 ] } ], "stake": "The chairman and co-founder of BorderPlex Digital Assets, the Project Jupiter developer, who signed the February 2025 memorandum of understanding with the governor.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed the February 25, 2025 memorandum of understanding with Gov. Lujan Grisham.", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2025-02-25" }, { "text": "Presented to Doña Ana County commissioners as BorderPlex chairman.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Made public commitments on county payments and water infrastructure.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "As Rackspace CEO, grew the company from $1.5 million to $1.5 billion.", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "text": "Napier's on-record 'community first' framing does not name Oracle, OpenAI or Stargate." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Chairman/co-founder BorderPlex; ex-Rackspace CEO (grew $1.5M→$1.5B, NYSE IPO); BuildGroup chair; P23 family-office principal. 'Community first' framing on record NEVER names Oracle/OpenAI/Stargate", "sources": [ { "label": "El Paso Matters — Project Jupiter is part of OpenAI/Oracle Stargate initiative; Napier as BorderPlex chairman presenting to county commissioners", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/25/stargate-open-ai-oracle-project-jupiter-data-center-dona-ana-new-mexico-el-paso-texas/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "El Paso Matters — $165B Santa Teresa data center announcement; identifies Napier as chairman/co-founder of BorderPlex Digital Assets and BuildGroup chair, ex-Rackspace CEO", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/08/27/dona-ana-billion-dollar-data-center-santa-teresa-el-paso-water-meta/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Haussamen (NM opinion/analysis) — Napier signed the Feb. 25 MOU with Gov. Lujan Grisham; his public commitments on county payments and water infrastructure", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2025/09/03/developer-must-guarantee-project-jupiters-rosy-promises/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Rice Business — official bio: BuildGroup co-founder/CEO, grew Rackspace from $1.5M to $1.5B as CEO", "url": "https://business.rice.edu/person/lanham-napier", "kind": "official-bio" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "announced", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "chairs", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO51", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BuildGroup", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/buildgroup" }, { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "founded", "label": "Founded", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC105", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "P23 related-party governance (Powers↔Napier)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "related-person-in", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC94", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "BorderPlex $20.5M Reg D 506(b) raise", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "principal-of", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO61", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "P23 (Napier family office)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/p23-napier-family-office" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE2", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "IRB approval + closed session (Sept 19 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-09-19" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP3", "type": "person", "name": "Stephanie Garcia Richard", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/stephanie-garcia-richard", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Commissioner of Public Lands since 2019. On July 29–30, 2026, won the Democratic State Central Committee vote (53%–46% over Sen. Harold Pope) to join Deb Haaland's ticket as the lieutenant-governor nominee; she is term-limited at the Land Office.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "Commissioner of Public Lands", "org": "PJO11", "start": "2019", "current": true }, { "title": "Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor", "start": "2026-07", "current": true, "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Member, New Mexico House of Representatives", "org": "PJO52", "start": "2013", "end": "2018", "current": false } ], "stake": "The Commissioner of Public Lands who twice denied the Green Chile pipeline's crossing of state trust land and is now the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Denied the Green Chile pipeline's crossings of state trust land on March 20, 2026.", "date": "2026-03-20" }, { "text": "Upheld the denial on reconsideration on July 14, 2026, finding the crossings 'not in the best interest of the trust.'", "date": "2026-07-14" }, { "text": "Won the Democratic State Central Committee vote, 53% to 46% over Sen. Harold Pope, to join Deb Haaland's ticket as the lieutenant-governor nominee.", "src": [ 0, 1 ], "date": "2026-07-30" }, { "text": "Term-limited at the Land Office." }, { "text": "The record found no conflict of interest." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Commissioner of Public Lands since 2019; ex-NM House (2013-18); Barnard/Columbia. DENIED the Green Chile pipeline's state-trust-land crossings (applicants: Energy Transfer subsidiaries) → forced the pivot to Bloom fuel cells. No COI found", "sources": [ { "label": "Source NM — Garcia Richard wins Democratic Lt. Gov nomination", "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/07/30/new-mexico-land-commissioner-garcia-richard-wins-democratic-lieutenant-governor-nomination/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "KRWG — Garcia Richard wins DPNM SCC election", "url": "https://www.krwg.org/krwg-news/2026-07-30/stephanie-garcia-richard-wins-dpnm-lieutenant-governor-scc-election", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE4", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "State Land Office pipeline denial (Mar 20 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "denied-crossing-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO8", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Energy Transfer (Transwestern)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/energy-transfer-transwestern" }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO11", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Land Office", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-land-office" }, { "predicate": "supports", "raw": "endorses", "label": "Supported by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP125", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Deb Haaland", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/deb-haaland" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE104", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "State Land Office denies reconsideration — second denial (Jul 14 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE121", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The commissioner who said no joins the ticket (Jul 29–30 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-14", "2026-07-30", "2026-08-14b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP4", "type": "person", "name": "Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/christopher-schaljo-hernandez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "Commission Chair", "org": "PJO9", "current": true, "src": [ 1 ] } ], "stake": "The county commission chair who presided over the September 19, 2025 IRB vote and signed the final agreements privately afterward, the central allegation of the Open Meetings Act suit.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed the August 26, 2025 IRB inducement resolution as chair.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025-08-26" }, { "text": "Chaired the September 19, 2025 IRB approval and its closed session.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-09-19" }, { "text": "Signed the final agreements outside public session on October 30, 2025; the package had grown from 359 pages to 1,583, and the word 'potable' had been added to the water cap.", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2025-10-30" }, { "text": "The private signing after the vote is the central allegation of the Open Meetings Act suit.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Not seeking reelection in 2026; Daisy Maldonado won the Democratic primary for the open seat.", "src": [ 3 ], "date": "2026-06-02" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Commission Chair, Dist 1 (D, elected 2022); signed the final 1,583-page agreements privately AFTER the Sept 19 2025 vote — central OMA allegation. Not seeking reelection in 2026 — the District 1 seat he holds, from which he chaired the $165B vote and signed the final agreements, is open in November.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Environmental Law Center — Open Meetings Act complaint recounting Chair Schaljo-Hernandez's closed-session motions (Feb. 6, 2026)", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-Complaint-Open-Meetings-Act-Lawsuit-Exs.-1-3-endorsed_-02-06-26.pdf", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB inducement resolution signed by Chair Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez (Aug. 26, 2025, mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "Heath Haussamen — final Project Jupiter agreements grew exponentially after the vote (Dec. 18, 2025)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2025/12/18/final-project-jupiter-agreements-grew-exponentially/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Organ Mountain News — Maldonado wins the D1 Democratic primary (Jun 3 2026)", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/daisy-maldonado-wins-dona-ana-county-commission-district-1-primary-2026/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "chaired", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE2", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "IRB approval + closed session (Sept 19 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE42", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Final agreements signed in private; docs 359→1,583 pp (Oct 30 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "chair-of", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO9", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission" }, { "predicate": "election-opponent-of", "raw": "seeks-seat-of", "label": "Election opponent of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP104", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Daisy Maldonado", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/daisy-maldonado" }, { "predicate": "election-opponent-of", "raw": "seeks-seat-of", "label": "Election opponent of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP167", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Samantha Barncastle Salopek", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/samantha-barncastle-salopek" } ], "timeline": [ "2025-09-19", "2025-10-30", "2026-06-02" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP5", "type": "person", "name": "Susana Chaparro", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/susana-chaparro", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "County Commissioner", "org": "PJO9", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The county commissioner who cast the sole vote against the $165 billion IRB approval.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "stance": { "position": "opposes", "src": [ 1 ], "basis": "Cast the sole no vote on the IRB approval, saying the process had been rushed." }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "Cast the sole no vote on the IRB approval, 4–1, on September 19, 2025: 'this has been rushed for me and the people I represent... we need more time.'", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025-09-19" }, { "text": "Listed as a commissioner in the August 26, 2025 IRB inducement resolution.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-08-26" }, { "text": "Reported the county's June 24, 2026 declaration that Project Jupiter was 'out of compliance.'", "date": "2026-06-24" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Commissioner Dist 4; the sole NO vote (4-1, Sept 19 2025): 'this has been rushed for me and the people I represent...we need more time'", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB inducement resolution listing Susana Chaparro, District 4 (Aug. 26, 2025; mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "Santa Fe New Mexican — Doña Ana County approves $165 billion in bonds for massive AI data center", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/do-a-ana-county-approves-165-billion-in-bonds-for-massive-ai-data-center-near/article_29bdb65d-ada4-43c4-8a0f-ba54f5e2a1b9.html", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "reported", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE71", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "County declares Project Jupiter 'out of compliance' (Jun 24 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "commissioner-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO9", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission" }, { "predicate": "opposes", "raw": "voted-against", "label": "Opposes", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE2", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "IRB approval + closed session (Sept 19 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-09-19" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP6", "type": "person", "name": "The Litigant", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/the-litigant", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Las Cruces (Doña Ana County) resident and pro se plaintiff suing the Doña Ana Board of County Commissioners over Project Jupiter bond/zoning approvals, drafting his filings with ChatGPT; occupation/employer not publicly documented in verified coverage.", "profile": null, "summary": "Pro se litigant; used ChatGPT to draft/file the suit against OpenAI's data center ('supercomputer fighting the supercomputer'); dismissed twice by Judge Foy", "sources": [ { "label": "Santa Fe New Mexican — Judge dismissed Project Jupiter lawsuit, allows chance to refile (Foy's second dismissal; the litigant's ChatGPT-drafted pro se case, standing dispute)", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/environment/judge-dismissed-project-jupiter-lawsuit-allows-chance-to-refile/article_58e04d4f-dca4-45e3-ab63-e3c7a750a8f9.html", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Source NM via KSFR — NM judge dismisses Project Jupiter data center lawsuit but offers chance to re-file (The litigant used ChatGPT to draft suit; 'second of three strikes')", "url": "https://www.ksfr.org/government/2026-06-24/new-mexico-judge-dismisses-project-jupiter-data-center-lawsuit-but-offers-chance-to-re-file", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Source NM (Joshua Bowling) via KANW — Judge Foy dismisses the litigant's Project Jupiter complaint without prejudice a second time", "url": "https://www.kanw.org/new-mexico-news/2026-06-24/new-mexico-judge-dismisses-project-jupiter-data-center-lawsuit-but-offers-chance-to-re-file", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Organ Mountain News — Project Jupiter data center lawsuit dismissed, the litigant given chance to refile", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/project-jupiter-data-center-lawsuit-dismissed-refile-derrick-pacheco-2026/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "litigates-against", "raw": "litigant-against", "label": "In litigation against", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO9", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "subject-of", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE63", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Litigant’s 2nd amended complaint dismissed (Jun 23 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "tests", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD29", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NM County Industrial Revenue Bond Act (NMSA §§4-59-1…16)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP7", "type": "person", "name": "Donald Trump", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/donald-trump", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "President of the United States (47th president, second term, inaugurated January 20, 2025); announced the Stargate AI infrastructure initiative that includes Project Jupiter", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "President of the United States", "org_label": "United States", "start": "2025-01-20", "current": true, "src": [ 1 ] } ], "stake": "The U.S. president who announced the Stargate AI infrastructure initiative that includes Project Jupiter.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Announced up to $500 billion in Stargate AI infrastructure investment with OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank on January 21, 2025, pledging emergency declarations to expedite data-center buildout.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025-01-21" }, { "text": "Revoked President Biden's AI executive order 14110 on January 20, 2025.", "date": "2025-01-20" }, { "text": "Signed Executive Order 14179, 'Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,' on January 23, 2025.", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2025-01-23" }, { "text": "Issued the America First Investment Policy memorandum on February 21, 2025, fast-tracking allied investment, including expedited environmental review for projects of $1 billion or more.", "src": [ 3 ], "date": "2025-02-21" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Revoked Biden EO 14110 on Jan 20 2025 (EO 14148), the day before the Stargate announcement; issued America First Investment Policy", "sources": [ { "label": "El Paso Matters — New Mexico's Project Jupiter data center part of larger Stargate AI initiative (Trump announced Stargate alongside Altman, Ellison, Son)", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/25/stargate-open-ai-oracle-project-jupiter-data-center-dona-ana-new-mexico-el-paso-texas/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "CBS News — Trump announces up to $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure investment with OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank (Jan 21, 2025), pledging emergency declarations to expedite data center buildout", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-announces-private-sector-ai-infrastructure-investment/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "White House — Executive Order 14179 'Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence' (Jan 23, 2025), issued three days after EO 14148 revoked Biden EO 14110", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "White House — America First Investment Policy national security memorandum (Feb 21, 2025), fast-tracking allied investment incl. expedited environmental review for $1B+ projects", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/america-first-investment-policy/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE10", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Trump revokes Biden AI-safety EO 14110 (Jan 20 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE11", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "America First Investment Policy (Feb 21 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "embodies", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC43", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Trump political-geography inoculation", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE83", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "White House Stargate announcement (Jan 21 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD24", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "EO 14148 — Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders (revokes EO 14110)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP8", "type": "person", "name": "KR Sridhar", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/kr-sridhar", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Founder, chairman and CEO", "org": "PJO7", "start": "2001", "current": true } ], "stake": "The founder, chairman and CEO of Bloom Energy.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Founder, chairman and CEO of Bloom Energy since 2001.", "date": "2001" }, { "text": "Previously worked on NASA Mars-oxygen systems and was a University of Arizona professor." }, { "text": "Sits on the C3.ai board and is a Kleiner Perkins strategic limited partner." }, { "text": "Addressed the scandium supply-chain constraint the record calls the 'Sixty-Ton Problem.'" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Bloom Energy founder/chairman/CEO since 2001; ex-NASA (Mars-oxygen systems), UArizona prof; now a billionaire (BE +1,300% YoY); C3.ai board; Kleiner Perkins strategic LP", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "addressed", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC13", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Scandium supply-chain constraint ('Sixty-Ton Problem')", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "founded", "label": "Founded", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO7", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bloom Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bloom-energy" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP9", "type": "person", "name": "Madhavi Singh", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/madhavi-singh", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "academic", "roles": [ { "title": "Deputy Director", "org_label": "Yale Thurman Arnold Project", "current": true } ], "stake": "A Yale antitrust scholar whose paper argues the Stargate joint venture may violate the Sherman Act.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Authored a Stargate antitrust analysis under the Clayton and Sherman Acts for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, volume 41." }, { "text": "The paper was supervised by Fiona Scott Morton." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Deputy Director, Yale Thurman Arnold Project; Stargate antitrust paper (Clayton/Sherman Acts; Berkeley Tech L.J. v41), supervised by Fiona Scott Morton", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "argues", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL10", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Stargate JV may violate Sherman Act antitrust", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD6", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Yale (Singh) Stargate antitrust analysis", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP10", "type": "person", "name": "Masayoshi Son", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/masayoshi-son", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Founder, chairman and CEO", "org": "PJO3", "current": true }, { "title": "Chairman", "org": "PJO18", "current": true } ], "stake": "The founder, chairman and CEO of SoftBank, who co-announced the $500 billion Stargate initiative.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-announced the $500 billion Stargate initiative with Trump, Altman and Ellison on January 21, 2025.", "src": [ 0, 1 ], "date": "2025-01-21" }, { "text": "Raised SoftBank's commitment from $100 billion to $200 billion at Trump's urging." }, { "text": "Holds about 34% of SoftBank." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "SoftBank founder/chairman/CEO; co-announced $500B Stargate with Trump/Altman/Ellison (Jan 21 2025); raised the SoftBank commitment $100B→$200B at Trump's urging; ~34% of SoftBank", "sources": [ { "label": "CBS News — Trump announces up to $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure investment with OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank (Jan. 21, 2025)", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-announces-private-sector-ai-infrastructure-investment/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "El Paso Matters — Stargate explainer recounting the announcement alongside Altman, Ellison, and Son", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/25/stargate-open-ai-oracle-project-jupiter-data-center-dona-ana-new-mexico-el-paso-texas/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "chairs", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO18", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Stargate initiative", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stargate-initiative" }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO3", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "SoftBank", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/softbank" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE83", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "White House Stargate announcement (Jan 21 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "finances", "raw": "guarantor-of", "label": "Finances", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE25", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "SoftBank $10B margin loan vs OpenAI stake (Jul 1 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP11", "type": "person", "name": "Yoshimitsu Goto", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/yoshimitsu-goto", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "CFO and CISO", "org": "PJO3", "start": "2018", "current": true } ], "stake": "SoftBank's chief financial officer and the primary financial architect of its Stargate commitment.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "SoftBank CFO and CISO since 2018.", "date": "2018" }, { "text": "Primary financial architect of the Stargate commitment." }, { "text": "In February 2025, urged the company to 'slow down the speed of the project.'", "date": "2025-02" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "SoftBank CFO/CISO since 2018; primary financial architect of the Stargate commitment; urged 'slow down the speed of the project'", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE18", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "SoftBank CFO 'slow down' statement (Feb 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO3", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "SoftBank", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/softbank" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP12", "type": "person", "name": "Helmut Knaust", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/helmut-knaust", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "academic", "stake": "A UTEP engineering expert who testified that the region's grid 'was not prepared for these multiple data centers.'", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Testified that the region's grid 'was not prepared for these multiple data centers.'" }, { "text": "Warned about El Paso Electric's capacity and the grid draw of the Fort Bliss data-center cluster." }, { "text": "The record has not found a full biography or department." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "UTEP engineering expert; testified the region's grid 'was not prepared for these multiple data centers'. Full bio/department not found", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "warned-about", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC60", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "EPE capacity crisis / Fort Bliss cluster grid draw", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP13", "type": "person", "name": "Kelly Tomblin", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/kelly-tomblin", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "President and CEO of El Paso Electric (the regional utility for West Texas and southern New Mexico, including Santa Teresa); Vice Chair / board co-chair of the Borderplex Alliance", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "President and CEO", "org": "PJO38", "start": "2020", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Vice Chair", "org": "PJO73", "current": true, "src": [ 0, 1 ] } ], "stake": "The president and CEO of El Paso Electric, the grid-interconnection utility, who is also vice chair of the Borderplex Alliance.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "El Paso Electric is the regional utility for West Texas and southern New Mexico, including Santa Teresa.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Vice chair and board co-chair of the Borderplex Alliance, the naming link with BorderPlex Digital Assets.", "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "text": "Joined the Borderplex Alliance executive committee in November 2020.", "src": [ 3 ], "date": "2020-11" }, { "text": "Quoted on El Paso data-center power in reporting that notes Project Jupiter will be fueled by natural gas.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "Named in the governor's February 25, 2025 BorderPlex press release.", "date": "2025-02-25" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "El Paso Electric President/CEO since 2020 (JD WVU, MBA NYU Stern); VICE CHAIR of the Borderplex Alliance — the naming nexus with BorderPlex Digital Assets. EPE is the grid-interconnection utility", "sources": [ { "label": "El Paso Electric — official officer bio of Kelly A. Tomblin (President, CEO, Board Member; Vice Chair of the Borderplex Alliance)", "url": "https://www.epelectric.com/company/about-epe/officers/kelly-a-tomblin", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "Borderplex Alliance — About Us page listing Tomblin (El Paso Electric) as a board co-chair", "url": "https://www.borderplexalliance.org/about-us", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "Texas Tribune — El Paso data-center power reporting quoting EPE CEO Tomblin; notes Project Jupiter in Santa Teresa will be fueled by natural gas", "url": "https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/26/texas-el-paso-meta-data-center-natural-gas-power-plant/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "El Paso Electric press release (Nov 2020) — Tomblin joins Borderplex Alliance executive committee", "url": "https://www.epelectric.com/news/el-paso-electric-ceo-joins-borderplex-alliance-executive-committee", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO38", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "El Paso Electric (EPE)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/el-paso-electric-epe" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "vice-chair-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO73", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "The Borderplex Alliance", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/the-borderplex-alliance" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC106", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Borderplex Alliance naming nexus (legitimacy laundering)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "names", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD19", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Governor's Feb 25 2025 BorderPlex press release", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "states", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL36", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "El Paso Electric was a ~2-year design partner (since ~2023)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP14", "type": "person", "name": "Peter Gibson", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/peter-gibson", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Chairman of Orion Digital Infrastructure (power/cooling partner for the BorderPlex/Project Jupiter campus in Santa Teresa, NM) and Chairman of Nebula Energy LLC; Executive Chairman and owner of Stellar Energy International", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chairman", "org": "PJO49", "current": true, "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Chairman", "org": "PJO77", "current": true, "src": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Executive Chairman and owner", "org": "PJO76", "current": true, "src": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Chairman", "org": "PJO84", "current": true }, { "title": "Founder", "org": "PJO78", "end": "2022", "current": false } ], "stake": "The chairman of Orion Digital Infrastructure, the power and cooling partner for the campus, who was quoted in the governor's announcement.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Quoted as chairman of Orion Digital Infrastructure in the governor's BorderPlex Digital campus announcement.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Orion was founded by SCALE Infrastructure Partners and Stellar Energy.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Stellar Energy's Digital data-center-cooling business was sold to Trane Technologies, announced in December 2025.", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2025-12" }, { "text": "Nebula Energy, which Gibson chairs, acquired a majority stake in AG&P LNG in 2024.", "src": [ 3 ], "date": "2024" }, { "text": "Sold MAS Energy, a renewable natural gas developer, in 2022.", "date": "2022" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "chairs BOTH Orion Digital Infrastructure AND Nebula Energy (his oil/gas/RNG holding co); owns Stellar Energy (FL, hyperscale power/LNG/cooling) since late 1990s; sold MAS Energy (RNG) 2022.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Governor's Office — BorderPlex Digital campus announcement quoting Peter Gibson as Chairman of Orion Digital Infrastructure", "url": "https://www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/02/25/governor-announces-partnership-with-borderplex-digital-digital-infrastructure-campus-represents-5-billion-investment-in-santa-teresa-expected-to-create-1000-jobs/", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Orion Digital Infrastructure — About page listing Peter Gibson as Chairman; founded by SCALE Infrastructure Partners and Stellar Energy", "url": "https://www.oriondigitalinfrastructure.com/about", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "Data Center Dynamics — Trane acquires Stellar Energy Digital; Gibson quoted as executive chairman of Stellar Energy International", "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/trane-acquires-liquid-cooling-solutions-provider-stellar-energy-digital/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "PR Newswire — Nebula Energy LLC buys majority stake in AG&P LNG; Gibson identified as Chairman of Nebula Energy", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nebula-energy-llc-buys-majority-stake-in-agp-lng-a-subsidiary-of-agp-group-focused-on-integrated-lng-terminal-and-downstream-gas-market-development-302048793.html", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO49", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Orion Digital Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/orion-digital-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "chairs", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO77", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Nebula Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nebula-energy" }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "owns", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO76", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Stellar Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stellar-energy" }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "formerly-owned", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO78", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "MAS Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/mas-energy" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "names", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD19", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Governor's Feb 25 2025 BorderPlex press release", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "chairs", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO84", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "AG&P LNG", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/ag-p-lng" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC114", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "LNG-world pivot (NFE alumni → data-center power)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP15", "type": "person", "name": "Valerio Ferme", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/valerio-ferme", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "academic", "roles": [ { "title": "President", "org": "PJO15", "start": "2025-01-01", "current": true } ], "stake": "The president of New Mexico State University, which signed a desalination advisory agreement with BorderPlex the same day as the state memorandum of understanding.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The 32nd NMSU president, since January 1, 2025.", "date": "2025-01-01" }, { "text": "Named in the governor's February 25, 2025 BorderPlex press release.", "date": "2025-02-25" }, { "text": "Comes from a comparative-literature background." }, { "text": "The record's assessment is that the NDA and records mechanism was likely executed at the vice-president-for-research level, not by Ferme personally." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "32nd NMSU President since Jan 1 2025; comparative-literature background (Brown/Berkeley) — the NDA/records-interception mechanism was almost certainly executed at the VP-Research level, not by him personally", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO15", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Mexico State University (NMSU)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-mexico-state-university-nmsu" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "names", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD19", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Governor's Feb 25 2025 BorderPlex press release", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP16", "type": "person", "name": "Davin Lopez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/davin-lopez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "President and CEO", "org": "PJO50", "current": true } ], "stake": "The president and CEO of the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Association.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Leads the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Association." }, { "text": "Named in the governor's February 25, 2025 BorderPlex press release.", "date": "2025-02-25" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "President/CEO, MVEDA", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO50", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Mesilla Valley Economic Development Association (MVEDA)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/mesilla-valley-economic-development-association-mveda" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "names", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD19", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Governor's Feb 25 2025 BorderPlex press release", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP17", "type": "person", "name": "Jacques Greyling", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jacques-greyling", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Operating Officer", "org": "PJO4", "start": "2025-01", "current": true }, { "title": "SVP, Global Infrastructure", "org_label": "Rackspace", "current": false }, { "title": "Chief Operating Officer", "org_label": "Vapor IO", "current": false }, { "title": "Chief Operating Officer", "org_label": "Alvaria", "current": false } ], "stake": "The chief operating officer of BorderPlex Digital Assets, with a prior tie to Lanham Napier through Rackspace.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Chief operating officer of BorderPlex Digital Assets since January 2025.", "date": "2025-01" }, { "text": "Formerly Rackspace's SVP of Global Infrastructure, a direct tie to Napier." }, { "text": "Previously COO of Vapor IO and of Alvaria." }, { "text": "Part of the pre-Rackspace biography was not found." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "COO since Jan 2025; ex-Rackspace SVP Global Infrastructure (direct Napier tie), COO Vapor IO, COO Alvaria. Pre-Rackspace bio partly not found", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP18", "type": "person", "name": "Harvey Powers", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/harvey-powers", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Chief Financial Officer of BorderPlex Digital Assets, LLC, the Project Jupiter developer; formerly CIO of P23 (the Napier family office) and Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Financial Officer", "org": "PJO4", "current": true, "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Chief Investment Officer", "org": "PJO61", "current": false, "src": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Special Situations Group", "org_label": "Goldman Sachs", "current": false, "src": [ 1 ] } ], "stake": "The chief financial officer of BorderPlex Digital Assets, who signed its SEC Form D and previously ran investments at P23, the Napier family office.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed BorderPlex Digital Assets' Form D as chief financial officer; it reports $20.55 million raised from 64 investors, with a first sale on January 31, 2025.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-02" }, { "text": "Named as authorizing officer on the 2026 lobbyist-employer registrations of both BorderPlex Digital Assets and Yucca Growth Infrastructure, the air-permit applicant.", "src": [ 3 ], "date": "2026" }, { "text": "Signed the NMSU–BorderPlex desalination advisory agreement for BorderPlex on February 25, 2025.", "date": "2025-02-25" }, { "text": "Was chief investment officer of P23, the Napier family office, for more than five years before becoming CFO of the company Napier chairs.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Previously at Goldman Sachs' Special Situations Group; co-founded Nextvest.", "src": [ 1 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "CFO; signed the Form D (Feb 18 2025); ex-Goldman SSG; CIO of P23 (Napier family office) 5+ yrs; co-founded Nextvest. P23→CFO = undisclosed related-party structure under Napier's chairmanship", "sources": [ { "label": "SEC EDGAR — Form D, BorderPlex Digital Assets, LLC (filed 2025-02-20; signed by Harvey Powers as Chief Financial Officer; $20.55M raised from 64 investors)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2048625/000204862525000001/0002048625-25-000001-index.html", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "BorderPlex Digital Assets leadership page (Wayback Machine, Aug 30 2025) — official CFO bio: P23 CIO, Goldman Sachs Special Situations, Nextvest co-founder", "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250830095814/https://www.borderplexdigital.com/leadership", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "Michael Bommarito datacenter wiki — BorderPlex Digital Assets operator profile listing Harvey Powers on the core operational team", "url": "https://michaelbommarito.com/wiki/datacenters/entities/operators/borderplex-digital-assets/", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — lobbyist-employer pages for BorderPlex Digital Assets and Yucca Growth Infrastructure, 2026 (read Sept 27 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed-for-bpd", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD13", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NMSU–BorderPlex desal advisory agreement (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "was-cio-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO61", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "P23 (Napier family office)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/p23-napier-family-office" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "former-employer-of", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO61", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "P23 (Napier family office)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/p23-napier-family-office" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC105", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "P23 related-party governance (Powers↔Napier)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "related-person-in", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC94", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "BorderPlex $20.5M Reg D 506(b) raise", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE52", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "BorderPlex Form D — first sale Jan 31 2025 (signed Feb 18, filed Feb 20)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO66", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP19", "type": "person", "name": "Alicia Keyes", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/alicia-keyes", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Founder & CEO of Apaluma (AI/gov-data firm); member of BorderPlex Digital Assets' leadership team, the developer behind Project Jupiter; NM Economic Development Secretary 2019–2023", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Founder and CEO", "org": "PJO64", "current": true, "src": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "Leadership team member", "org": "PJO4", "current": true, "src": [ 1, 4 ] }, { "title": "Economic Development Secretary", "org": "PJO13", "start": "2019-01", "end": "2023-07-13", "current": false, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The governor's former economic development secretary, now founder and CEO of Apaluma, an AI company written into NMED contracts without a bid, and a member of BorderPlex Digital Assets' leadership team.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "New Mexico Economic Development Secretary from January 2019 to July 13, 2023.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Named on BorderPlex Digital Assets' leadership team alongside Lanham Napier and George P. Bush.", "src": [ 1, 4 ] }, { "text": "Apaluma was added to NMED's Speridian contract through a $499,990 no-bid amendment for Project Velocity in May 2025.", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2025-05" }, { "text": "Keyes and Apaluma were added to a second NMED contract, valued at $977,354, directed by Secretary Kenney without competitive bidding.", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "text": "Apaluma closed a $5.55 million seed round, announced the week the Project Jupiter permit ruling was due.", "src": [ 5 ] }, { "text": "The record lists Keyes as a lobbyist for the WATR Alliance." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The governor's former economic development secretary (2019–2023), now founder-CEO of Apaluma — the AI company her old cabinet colleague's agency wrote into contracts without a bid, whose product ingested NMED's entire archive, and which raised $5.55M the week the Jupiter permit ruling was due. The lead investor's pitch was her government career itself.", "sources": [ { "label": "Office of the Governor — announcement of Economic Development Secretary Alicia J. Keyes's departure (tenure Jan 2019 – Jul 13, 2023)", "url": "https://www.governor.state.nm.us/2023/06/29/gov-lujan-grisham-announces-the-departure-of-economic-development-secretary-alicia-j-keyes/", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Heath Haussamen — Project Jupiter analysis naming Keyes on BorderPlex Digital's leadership team alongside Lanham Napier and George P. Bush", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2025/09/03/developer-must-guarantee-project-jupiters-rosy-promises/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "The CANDLE — Keyes's Apaluma added to NMED Speridian contract via $499,990 no-bid amendment (Project Velocity, May 2025)", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-nm-economic-secretary-alicia-keyes-scores-big-no-bid-deal-converting-state-enviro-data-for-her-ai-agent-luma/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "The CANDLE — Keyes and Apaluma added to a second NMED contract valued at $977,354, directed by Secretary Kenney without competitive bidding", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-secretary-keyes-and-apaluma-added-to-a-second-nmed-contract-valued-at-977354-and-promoted-by-kenney/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "El Paso News — Project Jupiter's El Paso connection; lists Keyes on BorderPlex Digital Assets' leadership webpage", "url": "https://elpasonews.org/2025/09/18/project-jupiter-the-el-paso-connection-to-the-santa-teresa-data-center/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "PR Newswire — Apaluma $5.55M seed", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/apaluma-announces-5-55-million-seed-funding-to-scale-unified-government-data-platform-302828065.html", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — lobbyist-employer rosters (GetAuthorizedLobbyists), 2025–2026, as shown on the public client pages (pulled Sept 27 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "contact-at", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC10", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Governance opacity / transparency failure", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "founded", "label": "Founded", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO64", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Apaluma", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/apaluma" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC102", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Keyes→Apaluma→NMED conflict nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "governs-timing-of", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD32", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Governmental Conduct Act §10-16-8(D) — the cooling-off rule", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "appointed", "raw": "appointed", "label": "Appointed by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP1", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Michelle Lujan Grisham", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/michelle-lujan-grisham" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "former-secretary-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO13", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Economic Development Dept (NMEDD)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-economic-development-dept-nmedd" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI1", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Revolving door — Alicia Keyes", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#revolving-door-alicia-keyes" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE110", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Apaluma closes a $5.55M seed round — announced the week the decision was due", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE111", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Apaluma promo video — Kenney stars, then it vanishes", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP20", "type": "person", "name": "Dr. Pei Xu", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/dr-pei-xu", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "academic", "roles": [ { "title": "Professor of civil engineering", "org": "PJO15", "current": true } ], "stake": "An NMSU civil-engineering professor and desalination expert named as an advisor in the NMSU–BorderPlex desalination agreement.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "An expert in desalination, brackish water and potable reuse, the project's water need." }, { "text": "Named as an advisor in the NMSU–BorderPlex desalination advisory agreement of February 25, 2025.", "date": "2025-02-25" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMSU civil-eng professor; PhD ENGREF Paris; desalination/brackish-water/potable-reuse expert — exactly the project's water need.", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "advisor-in", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD13", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NMSU–BorderPlex desal advisory agreement (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "works-for", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO15", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Mexico State University (NMSU)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-mexico-state-university-nmsu" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "advisor-to", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP21", "type": "person", "name": "James Kenney", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/james-kenney", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Cabinet Secretary, New Mexico Environment Department (appointed Jan 2019, reappointed 2023); previously 21+ years at U.S. EPA including enforcement/investigations roles", "profile": { "category": "appointed-official", "roles": [ { "title": "Cabinet Secretary", "org": "PJO10", "start": "2019-01", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Enforcement and investigations roles", "org_label": "U.S. EPA", "current": false, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department, the agency deciding Project Jupiter's air permit.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Concurred on July 1, 2026 with the Air Quality Bureau's recommendation for a public hearing, after about 6,700 public comments.", "date": "2026-07-01" }, { "text": "Per internal emails reported by The Candle, directed staff to add about $500,000 in Apaluma work to NMED's Speridian contract.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "Approved a second contract, worth $977,354, adding Apaluma for Project Velocity, and appeared in an Apaluma promo video that was later taken down.", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "text": "Sixteen organizations wrote to Kenney in January 2026 demanding transparency and public input on the Project Jupiter air permits.", "src": [ 4 ], "date": "2026-01" }, { "text": "The Department of Justice's July 9, 2026 letter on its investigation into the permit's comment file was addressed to Kenney.", "date": "2026-07-09" }, { "text": "Wrote to the developers of a proposed Grant County data center on September 18, 2026, expressing 'disappointment' at their lack of community engagement.", "date": "2026-09-18" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The cabinet secretary whose agency decides Project Jupiter's air permit — and who, per internal emails, directed his staff to write Apaluma, his former cabinet colleague's AI company, into NMED contracts without a bid. He starred in the company's promo video ('I'm already having, like, an affection towards Luma… like lightning in a bottle') — a video that later vanished. The DOJ's fraud investigation into the permit's comment file landed on his desk in July 2026.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — official bio of Cabinet Secretary James C. Kenney (role, 21+ yrs EPA, husband is U.S. Marshal for District of NM)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/general/james-c-kenney/", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "Organ Mountain News (Source NM syndication) — Kenney approves public hearing on Project Jupiter air permits, decision pushed from Apr 22 to Jul 21, 2026 after 7,000+ comments on the earlier East/West applications (Mar 27 2026)", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/project-jupiter-air-permits-hearing-decision-delayed/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "The Candle — Keyes/Apaluma no-bid deal: Kenney directed staff to add ~$500K Apaluma work to Speridian contract; email says 'The Secretary wants the Apaluma solution'", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-nm-economic-secretary-alicia-keyes-scores-big-no-bid-deal-converting-state-enviro-data-for-her-ai-agent-luma/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "The Candle — second NMED contract worth $977,354 adds Apaluma/Keyes for 'Project Velocity'; Kenney approved and appeared in Apaluma promo video", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-secretary-keyes-and-apaluma-added-to-a-second-nmed-contract-valued-at-977354-and-promoted-by-kenney/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NM Environmental Law Center — 16-organization letter addressed to Secretary James Kenney demanding transparency and public input on Project Jupiter air quality permits (Jan 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/New-Mexico-Organizations-Demand-Public-Transparency-Access-Concerning-Project-Jupiter-Air-Quality-Permits.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "ordered", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "awarded", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE61", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Apaluma awarded ~$1.48M no-bid NMED contracts", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC102", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Keyes→Apaluma→NMED conflict nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "in-tension-with", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJTN18", "target_type": "tension", "target_name": "Regulator-as-decider vs. regulator-as-customer (Kenney/NMED/Apaluma)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "targets", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE59", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Elevate NM pro-permit ad campaign (Jan 29–Mar 2 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "targets", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE66", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle NMED permit-support letter, signed Pitcock (Mar 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "petitions", "label": "Has as party", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO85", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "WATR Alliance", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/watr-alliance" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE111", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Apaluma promo video — Kenney stars, then it vanishes", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO146", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Site Layer 1 LLC (Granite Renewables)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/site-layer-1-llc-granite-renewables" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO146", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Site Layer 1 LLC (Granite Renewables)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/site-layer-1-llc-granite-renewables" }, { "predicate": "appointed", "raw": "appointed", "label": "Appointed", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP200", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "James O. Browning", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/james-o-browning" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-01", "2026-07-02", "2026-07-29", "2026-09-24c", "2026-10-02" ], "updated": "2026-10-02" }, { "id": "PJP22", "type": "person", "name": "Michael Padilla", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/michael-padilla", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "New Mexico State Senate Majority Whip (D-District 14, Bernalillo County), serving since 2013; founder, chairman and CEO of Altivus CRM Solutions", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Senator and Senate Majority Whip", "org": "PJO52", "start": "2013", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Founder, chairman and CEO", "org": "PJO74", "current": true, "src": [ 3 ] } ], "stake": "The Senate Majority Whip who sponsored the HB 93 floor amendment adding Section 6, the self-sourced power exemption the project runs on.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Introduced SB 418, a standalone Qualified Microgrid bill, as sole sponsor on February 17, 2025; it died on February 22 after being reported Do Pass and postponed the same day.", "date": "2025-02-17" }, { "text": "Sponsored Senate Floor Amendment 1 to HB 93 on March 20, 2025, adding Section 6, the self-sourced power generation exemption.", "src": [ 4 ], "date": "2025-03-20" }, { "text": "Opposed SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act that would have closed the exemption." }, { "text": "State campaign-finance records show $32,400 in contributions to Padilla from the Alarid cluster, all dated December 24, 2025, nine months after the amendment became law; nothing in the record shows money preceding or procuring the amendment.", "src": [ 5 ], "date": "2025-12-24" }, { "text": "No direct contributions from Project Jupiter, BorderPlex Digital Assets, STACK, Oracle, Apaluma or Bloom Energy appear in Padilla's 2020–2026 filings.", "src": [ 5 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "CORRECTION (Aug 12, 2026): An earlier version of this page said Sen. Padilla received '$30k+ from BorderPlex Digital Assets lobbyists' without itemization, and included unrelated decades-old workplace allegations; the allegations have been removed as irrelevant to this record, and the contribution figure is now itemized below. — The Senate Majority Whip who sponsored Senate Floor Amendment 1 to HB 93 (March 20, 2025), adding Section 6 — the 'Self-Sourced Power Generation' exemption the project runs on. CFIS records show $32,400 in contributions to him from the Alarid cluster, all dated December 24, 2025 — Alarid Consulting ($5,000, $5,000, $2,400), Elizabeth Alarid ($5,000, $5,000), and Vanessa Alarid ($5,000, $5,000), a registered BorderPlex lobbyist. The sequence matters and the record states it plainly: the contributions came nine months AFTER the amendment became law; nothing here shows money preceding or procuring the amendment. Also on the record, because exculpatory findings publish with the same prominence: no direct contributions from Project Jupiter, BorderPlex Digital Assets, STACK, Oracle, Apaluma, or Bloom Energy appear in his 2020–2026 filings.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Legislature — official page for Sen. Michael Padilla (District 14, Majority Whip)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/members/Legislator?SponCode=SPADI", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Santa Fe New Mexican — behind-the-scenes deals paved the road to Project Jupiter", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/behind-the-scenes-deals-in-new-mexico-paved-the-road-to-project-jupiter/article_3917f534-44b4-4fcc-955e-e5da7ce920de.html", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "El Paso Matters — Project Jupiter/Stargate explainer detailing Padilla's HB 93 microgrid carve-out from the Energy Transition Act and his defense of it", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/25/stargate-open-ai-oracle-project-jupiter-data-center-dona-ana-new-mexico-el-paso-texas/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Wikipedia — Michael Padilla (NM senator since 2013, Majority Whip, founder/CEO of Altivus CRM Solutions)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Padilla", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "NM Legislature — SFL_1 to HB 93 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/floor_amendments/SFL_1%20HB%2093%20232085.1.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NM CFIS — contribution records (itemized above; portal search: Padilla)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html#/index", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "sponsored", "raw": "sponsored", "label": "Sponsored", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE41", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "HB 93 signed w/ microgrid/ETA carve-out (Apr 8 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "sponsored", "raw": "sponsored", "label": "Sponsored", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC78", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "HB 93 / ETA 'self-sourced microgrid' carve-out", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "owns", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO74", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Altivus CRM Solutions", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/altivus-crm-solutions" }, { "predicate": "opposes", "raw": "opposed", "label": "Opposes", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC115", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "SB 235 — Microgrid Oversight Act (the corrective bill)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL136", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "$32,400 to Padilla from the Alarid cluster — in one day, nine months after the amendment", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "contributes-to", "raw": "contributed-to", "label": "Received contributions from", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP121", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Vanessa Alarid", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/vanessa-alarid" } ], "timeline": [ "2025-02-17", "2025-02-22", "2025-03-20", "2025-04-08", "2025-12-24" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP23", "type": "person", "name": "Greg Abbott", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/greg-abbott", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "Governor of Texas", "org_label": "State of Texas", "current": true } ], "stake": "The Texas governor who championed Stargate's Abilene campus and later moved to curb data-center tax exemptions and grid connections in Texas.", "jurisdiction": "state-tx", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Championed the Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas." }, { "text": "Recommended repealing data-center tax exemptions in June 2026.", "date": "2026-06" }, { "text": "Endorsed banning rural AI data centers on July 1, 2026.", "date": "2026-07-01" }, { "text": "On August 3, 2026, ordered an audit of every data center in the Texas interconnection queue and halted them until it is done; facilities that generate their own power sit outside the pause.", "date": "2026-08-03" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "TX Governor; championed Stargate/Abilene, then (Jun 2026) recommended repealing data-center tax exemptions", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supports", "raw": "championed", "label": "Supports", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC46", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Abilene Campus (Stargate, TX)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE48", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Abbott endorses banning rural AI data centers (Jul 1 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE45", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Abbott recommends repealing data-center tax exemptions (Jun 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP24", "type": "person", "name": "Judge Jennifer DeLaney", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/judge-jennifer-delaney", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "judge-or-hearing-officer", "roles": [ { "title": "District Judge, sitting by designation", "current": true } ], "stake": "The district judge sitting by designation on the Open Meetings Act suit over the IRB and LEDA ordinances, after the Third Judicial District's judges were recused.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Denied the county's motion to dismiss the Open Meetings Act challenge on March 20, 2026, issuing a writ of certiorari for review on the administrative record.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-03-20" }, { "text": "Declined the same day to pause the ordinances.", "date": "2026-03-20" }, { "text": "Ordered production of the full administrative record." }, { "text": "Allowed Green Chile Ventures and Yucca Growth Infrastructure to intervene." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "District Judge of Deming, sitting by designation on the IRB/LEDA suit (all Third Judicial District judges recused or excused); denied the county's motion to dismiss Mar 20 2026, ordered the full record, let GCV/Yucca intervene.", "sources": [ { "label": "Heath Haussamen — \"Judge rejects motion to dismiss Project Jupiter lawsuit\" (Mar. 20, 2026)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2026/03/20/judge-rejects-motion-to-dismiss-project-jupiter-lawsuit/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "ordered-record-production-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC7", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Industrial Revenue Bonds ($165B)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "ruled", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE89", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Motion to dismiss DENIED in the IRB suit; shells intervene (Mar 20 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-03-20" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP25", "type": "person", "name": "Rajiv S. Patel", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rajiv-s-patel", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-founder and board member (per a conference bio)", "org": "PJO4", "current": true }, { "title": "Former President", "org": "PJO60", "current": false } ], "stake": "Described in a conference bio as a co-founder and board member of BorderPlex Digital Assets, the project's developer; the name does not appear on the company's SEC Form D.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-founder and board role at BorderPlex Digital Assets rests on a conference bio only; the name is not on the company's SEC Form D." }, { "text": "Former President of Spear Street Capital, which the record lists as a firm Patel co-founded." }, { "text": "The record finds no New Mexico footprint and no public statements on the project." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Co-founder/board (ex-President Spear Street Capital) per conference bio only — NOT on the SEC Form D; no NM footprint, no public statements on the project.", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "co-founder-of", "label": "Founded", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "co-founded", "label": "Founded", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO60", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Spear Street Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/spear-street-capital" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP26", "type": "person", "name": "Steve Roberts", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/steve-roberts", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "Incorporator", "org": "PJO67", "start": "2026-01-13", "current": false, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Named as the incorporator of Elevate New Mexico, a Virginia nonstock corporation formed January 13, 2026, in a complaint filed with the New Mexico State Ethics Commission.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Incorporated Elevate New Mexico as a Virginia nonstock corporation on January 13, 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-01-13" }, { "text": "A New Mexico State Ethics Commission complaint dated April 17, 2026 documents Roberts as the incorporator.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-04-17" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Incorporated Elevate New Mexico (VA nonstock, Jan 13 2026)", "sources": [ { "label": "NM State Ethics Commission — complaint documenting Steve Roberts as Elevate New Mexico's incorporator (Apr. 17, 2026)", "url": "https://www.sec.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-17-SEC-v.-Elevate-Compl.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "incorporated", "label": "Founded", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO67", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Elevate New Mexico", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/elevate-new-mexico" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC103", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "'Elevate New Mexico' astroturf operation", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP27", "type": "person", "name": "Brannen McElmurray", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brannen-mcelmurray", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "CEO", "org": "PJO49", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Managing Director and Chief Development Officer", "org": "PJO83", "current": false }, { "title": "CEO", "org_label": "Genera PR", "current": false } ], "stake": "CEO of Orion Digital Infrastructure and the Responsible Official named on the Acoma air-permit applications.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Listed as CEO on Orion Digital Infrastructure's About page.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Named as Responsible Official on the Acoma air-permit applications." }, { "text": "Previously Managing Director and Chief Development Officer at New Fortress Energy, and CEO of Genera PR, a New Fortress Energy power subsidiary." }, { "text": "Has more than 20 years in LNG rather than a data-center background." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "CEO, Orion Digital Infrastructure; ex-New Fortress Energy MD & Chief Development Officer; ex-CEO Genera PR (NFE's PR power subsidiary). 20+ yrs LNG — not a data-center native.", "sources": [ { "label": "Orion Digital Infrastructure — About page listing Brannen McElmurray as CEO", "url": "https://www.oriondigitalinfrastructure.com/about", "kind": "official-bio" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO49", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Orion Digital Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/orion-digital-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "alum-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO83", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Fortress Energy (NFE)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-fortress-energy-nfe" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC114", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "LNG-world pivot (NFE alumni → data-center power)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "cites", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJN1", "target_type": "narrative", "target_name": "Who lent Project Jupiter $165 billion?", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/narratives/who-lent-project-jupiter-165-billion" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD83", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "IRB Series 2025A, 2025B and 2025C — executed & recorded bond packages (Nov 12 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP28", "type": "person", "name": "Larry Ellison", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/larry-ellison", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Executive Chair and Chief Technology Officer", "org": "PJO1", "current": true } ], "stake": "Oracle's Executive Chair and CTO, who co-announced the Stargate venture behind Project Jupiter and is a named defendant in the Oracle bondholder suit.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-announced the Stargate venture behind Project Jupiter at the White House on January 21, 2025.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-01-21" }, { "text": "Co-founded Oracle in 1977.", "date": "1977" }, { "text": "Named a defendant in the Oracle bondholder securities-fraud class action." }, { "text": "Has pledged 346 million shares as personal collateral." }, { "text": "Hosted a 2020 fundraiser for Donald Trump.", "date": "2020" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Oracle Exec Chair/CTO; co-founded Oracle 1977; ~$190B; pledged 346M shares as personal collateral; bondholder-suit defendant; hosted a 2020 Trump fundraiser; friend of Son", "sources": [ { "label": "El Paso Matters — Stargate explainer documenting Larry Ellison co-announcing the venture behind Project Jupiter", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/25/stargate-open-ai-oracle-project-jupiter-data-center-dona-ana-new-mexico-el-paso-texas/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "defendant-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE57", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle bondholder securities-fraud class action", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE83", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "White House Stargate announcement (Jan 21 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP29", "type": "person", "name": "Safra Catz", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/safra-catz", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Executive Vice Chair of Oracle Corporation's Board of Directors (since Sept 22, 2025); Oracle CEO 2014–2025, sole CEO from 2019", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Executive Vice Chair of the Board of Directors", "org": "PJO1", "start": "2025-09", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "CEO", "org": "PJO1", "start": "2014", "end": "2025", "current": false, "src": [ 3 ] } ], "stake": "Oracle's Executive Vice Chair and former CEO, named as a defendant in the bondholder suit over Oracle's AI-buildout debt.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Moved from CEO to Executive Vice Chair in September 2025, 13 days before the $18B bond close.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-09" }, { "text": "Named among the defendants in the bondholder suit over Oracle's AI-buildout debt.", "src": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "text": "The bondholders' complaint alleges Catz is strictly liable under the Securities Act.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "Oracle CEO from 2014 to 2025, and sole CEO from 2019.", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "text": "A former DLJ banker." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Oracle Exec Vice Chair since Sept 22 2025 (announced) (was sole CEO 2019-2025); ex-DLJ banker; former Disney board member (to Jul 2024). Named bondholder-suit defendant; transition landed 13 days before the $18B bond close", "sources": [ { "label": "Oracle (investor relations) — official announcement: Catz appointed Executive Vice Chair, Magouyrk and Sicilia promoted to CEOs (Sept 22, 2025)", "url": "https://investor.oracle.com/investor-news/news-details/2025/Oracle-Corporation-Announces-Promotion-of-Clay-Magouyrk-and-Mike-Sicilia-to-CEOs-Safra-Catz-Appointed-Executive-Vice-Chair-of-the-Board-of-Directors/default.aspx", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "Data Center Dynamics — Oracle sued by bondholders over AI-buildout debt; Catz named among defendants", "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle-sued-by-bondholders-over-growing-debt-for-ai-buildout/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Insurance Journal — bondholders sue Oracle over $38B in loans for OpenAI data centers; Catz strictly liable under Securities Act per complaint", "url": "https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2026/01/15/854381.htm", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Wikipedia — Safra Catz (role history, spouse Gal Tirosh, Disney board ended July 2024, Paramount Skydance board Aug 2025)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safra_Catz", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "defendant-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE57", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle bondholder securities-fraud class action", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP30", "type": "person", "name": "Maria Smith", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/maria-smith", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer", "org": "PJO1", "current": true } ], "stake": "Oracle's Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, named as a defendant in the Oracle bondholder suit.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named a defendant in the Oracle bondholder securities-fraud class action." }, { "text": "Serves as Oracle's Chief Accounting Officer." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Oracle EVP/Chief Accounting Officer; named defendant in the bondholder suit", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "defendant-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE57", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle bondholder securities-fraud class action", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP31", "type": "person", "name": "Jennifer Bradfute", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jennifer-bradfute", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Attorney and registered lobbyist, founder of Bradfute Sayer Consulting & Legal Services (Albuquerque); consultant for BorderPlex Digital Assets on Project Jupiter and President of the WATR Alliance; ex-ExxonMobil and ex-Marathon Oil counsel who led drafting of the 2019 NM Produced Water Act", "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Founder", "org": "PJO86", "current": true }, { "title": "Counsel for the applicant in the air-permit hearing", "org": "PJO66", "current": true, "src": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Consultant", "org": "PJO4", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO4", "start": "2025-01-27", "current": true, "src": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Listed on the 2026 lobbyist roster, marked \"Authorized: No\"", "org": "PJO66", "start": "2026-01-19", "current": true, "src": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "President", "org": "PJO85", "current": true, "src": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO85", "current": true, "src": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org_label": "Economic Development Corporation of Lea County", "current": true, "src": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org_label": "Permian Basin Petroleum Association", "current": true, "src": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Issues and advocacy", "org_label": "ExxonMobil", "current": false, "src": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "In-house attorney and lobbyist", "org_label": "Marathon Oil", "current": false, "src": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Attorney", "org_label": "Modrall Sperling", "current": false, "src": [ 2 ] } ], "stake": "Counsel for the air-permit applicant, Yucca Growth Infrastructure, and a registered lobbyist for the project's developer, BorderPlex Digital Assets, whose July 2026 request moved the air-permit hearing five weeks earlier.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "In July 2026 asked the hearing officer to move the air-permit hearing five weeks earlier, arguing the project stood to lose $325 million per month beginning in November.", "src": [ 4, 5 ], "date": "2026-07-27" }, { "text": "The hearing officer denied the request in the room on July 27, 2026, then granted it in writing two days later.", "src": [ 4 ], "date": "2026-07-29" }, { "text": "Registered as a lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets from January 27, 2025.", "src": [ 6 ], "date": "2025-01-27" }, { "text": "Listed on Yucca Growth Infrastructure's 2026 lobbyist roster from January 19, 2026, marked \"Authorized: No\"; the registry does not say what that flag means.", "src": [ 7 ], "date": "2026-01-19" }, { "text": "As a BorderPlex Digital Assets consultant, disclosed the project's water sourcing at a Doña Ana County Planning and Zoning meeting.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Led the drafting of New Mexico's 2019 Produced Water Act.", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2019" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-28" }, "summary": "She also moved the hearing itself: her July 2026 request — arguing a loss of $325 million per month — pulled the public hearing five weeks earlier, after the hearing officer had said in the room that he would not move it. Registry (Sept 28 2026): registered lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets from January 27, 2025, and for the Economic Development Corporation of Lea County, the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and the WATR Alliance. Also listed on Yucca Growth Infrastructure's 2026 roster, from January 19, 2026, marked Authorized: No — the registry does not say what that flag means; she is YGI's counsel in the air proceeding. (Corrected Sept 28: an earlier version said she was not registered for YGI.)", "sources": [ { "label": "Heath Haussamen — Project Jupiter water-use claim rankles opponents and supporters (quotes Bradfute as BorderPlex Digital Assets consultant disclosing water sourcing at Doña Ana County P&Z)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2026/04/07/project-jupiter-water-use-claim-rankles-opponents-and-supporters/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "WATR Alliance — About page listing Jennifer Bradfute as President", "url": "https://watralliance.org/about/", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "Permian Basin Water in Energy Conference — speaker bio (ExxonMobil Issues & Advocacy, Marathon Oil in-house attorney/lobbyist, Modrall Sperling, NM Produced Water Act)", "url": "https://waterinenergy.com/jennifer-bradfute/", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "NMED scheduling order — counsel for Applicant (PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-16-AQB-26-57-Scheduling-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (Jul 29 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Organ Mountain News — hearing rescheduled", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/project-jupiter-air-quality-permit-hearing-rescheduled-september-2026/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — lobbyist registrations and employer filings, 2026 (queried Sept 28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — employer lobbyist rosters, as shown on the public client pages (GetAuthorizedLobbyists), 2026 (read Sept 27–28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO64", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Apaluma", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/apaluma" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "co-owner-of", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO86", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bradfute Sayer Consulting & Legal Services", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bradfute-sayer-consulting-legal-services" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO85", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "WATR Alliance", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/watr-alliance" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL121", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Bradfute is now counsel of record for the permit applicant (YGI)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE112", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The hearing is moved up five weeks — at the applicant's request (Jul 27–29 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE131", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The hearing officer denies discovery — his third reversal (Aug 12 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO66", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-12", "2026-08-21", "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-28" }, { "id": "PJP32", "type": "person", "name": "Elizabeth K. Anderson", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/elizabeth-k-anderson", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "appointed-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Engineer", "org": "PJO45", "current": true } ], "stake": "New Mexico's State Engineer, whose office governs the MOU's brackish-groundwater commitment and whose name is on the Supreme Court challenge to the emergency authorization of construction well water.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Confirmed by the New Mexico Senate as State Engineer on March 10, 2025, the first woman in the post.", "date": "2025-03-10" }, { "text": "The Office of the State Engineer governs the MOU's brackish-groundwater commitment; the record has not found a personal role for Anderson in the MOU negotiations." }, { "text": "On August 23, 2026, in Center for Biological Diversity v. Anderson, the New Mexico Supreme Court stayed the October 23, 2025 emergency authorization for construction well water.", "date": "2026-08-23" }, { "text": "On August 28, 2026, wrote that the construction water came from a verified, pre-existing right and \"is not a new depletion of water in the Lower Rio Grande.\"", "date": "2026-08-28" }, { "text": "After the Supreme Court denied both petitions and lifted the stays on September 17, 2026, said: \"We are grateful for the Supreme Court's decision.\"", "date": "2026-09-17" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NM State Engineer (first woman; Senate-confirmed Mar 10 2025); OSE governs the MOU's brackish-groundwater commitment. Personal role in MOU negotiations not found", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO45", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Office of the State Engineer (OSE)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-office-of-the-state-engineer-ose" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP33", "type": "person", "name": "Gloria Gameros", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gloria-gameros", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "County Commissioner, District 2", "org": "PJO9", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Mayor Pro Tem", "org_label": "Anthony, NM", "current": false } ], "stake": "Doña Ana County Commissioner for District 2 and one of the four commissioners who voted yes on the Project Jupiter industrial revenue bonds.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Elected to the county commission in November 2024.", "date": "2024-11" }, { "text": "One of the four yes votes on the industrial revenue bond approval of September 19, 2025.", "date": "2025-09-19" }, { "text": "At the September 22, 2026 seating of the Community Monitoring Committee, asked that its meetings be held in the south of the county, where the campus is.", "date": "2026-09-22" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Commissioner Dist 2 (elected Nov 2024; ex-Anthony NM Mayor Pro Tem); one of the four YES votes", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB inducement resolution listing Commissioner Gloria Gameros, District 2 (mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO9", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission" }, { "predicate": "supports", "raw": "voted-yes-in", "label": "Supports", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE2", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "IRB approval + closed session (Sept 19 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE157", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "One year after the bond vote: the monitoring committee is seated (Sept 22 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-09-19", "2026-09-22" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP34", "type": "person", "name": "Shannon Reynolds", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/shannon-reynolds", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Former Doña Ana County District 3 Commissioner (D, 2019–Dec 2025); lost the June 2026 Democratic primary for County Assessor (27%, third place)", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "County Commissioner, District 3", "org": "PJO9", "start": "2019", "end": "2025-12-28", "current": false, "src": [ 1 ] } ], "stake": "Former Doña Ana County District 3 commissioner who voted yes on the Project Jupiter bonds, posted personal information of the project's opponents online, and resigned in December 2025.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Voted yes on the Project Jupiter industrial revenue bonds." }, { "text": "On September 5, 2025, posted personal information of commenters who opposed Project Jupiter on Facebook.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-09-05" }, { "text": "The New Mexico Environmental Law Center sent a cease demand on September 8, 2025.", "date": "2025-09-08" }, { "text": "Resigned from the commission effective December 28, 2025.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025-12-28" }, { "text": "Finished third of three in the June 2, 2026 Democratic primary for County Assessor, with 4,182 votes (26.6%).", "src": [ 4, 5 ], "date": "2026-06-02" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "District 3 commissioner who cast a YES vote on the Project Jupiter IRB, posted the personal information of anti-Jupiter commenters, then resigned in December 2025. Her June 2026 run for County Assessor ended in a third-place primary loss.", "sources": [ { "label": "KVIA — Commissioner Shannon Reynolds criticized for sharing personal info of Project Jupiter opponents online (Sept 2025)", "url": "https://kvia.com/news/top-stories/2025/09/09/dona-ana-county-commissioner-shannon-reynolds-criticized-for-sharing-personal-info-of-residents-online/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Albuquerque Journal — Doña Ana County commissioner resigns (Dec 2025, effective Dec 28)", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/doa-ana-county-commissioner-resigns/2941507", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "KRWG — Shannon Reynolds reflects back on time as Doña Ana County Commissioner (Jan 2026)", "url": "https://www.krwg.org/krwg-news/2026-01-05/shannon-reynolds-reflects-back-on-time-as-dona-ana-county-commissioner", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "KRWG — Shannon Reynolds discusses campaign for Doña Ana County Assessor (May 2026)", "url": "https://www.krwg.org/krwg-news/2026-05-18/shannon-reynolds-discusses-campaign-for-dona-ana-county-assessor", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Organ Mountain News — 2026 primary results: Reynolds third in assessor race with 27%", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/dona-ana-county-primary-results-commission-assessor-district-court-2026/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Critical Report — 2026 NM county primary results", "url": "https://criticalreport.substack.com/p/2026-nm-county-primaries", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO9", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "subject-of", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE75", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Reynolds posts personal info of anti-Jupiter commenters (Sept 5 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "targets", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE76", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMELC demands Reynolds cease doxxing (Sept 8 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "subject-of", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE80", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Commissioner Shannon Reynolds resigns (Dec 28 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "candidate-in", "raw": "candidate-in", "label": "Candidate in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE82", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Democratic primary (Jun 2 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC119", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Electoral capture (Jupiter-connected figures seeking county offices)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "succeeded", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP110", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Susie Kimble", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/susie-kimble" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-06-02" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP35", "type": "person", "name": "Judge James B. Foy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/judge-james-b-foy", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "judge-or-hearing-officer", "roles": [ { "title": "District judge", "org_label": "Silver City", "current": true } ], "stake": "The district judge in Silver City who twice dismissed a litigant's suit over Project Jupiter, the second time on June 23, 2026.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Dismissed the litigant's second amended complaint on June 23, 2026, the second dismissal of the suit.", "src": [ 0, 1 ], "date": "2026-06-23" }, { "text": "Allowed a chance to refile, citing \"three strikes and you're out.\"", "src": [ 0, 1 ], "date": "2026-06-23" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Third Judicial District judge (Silver City); dismissed the litigant’s suit twice ('three strikes and you're out', Jun 23 2026)", "sources": [ { "label": "Santa Fe New Mexican — Judge Foy dismisses Project Jupiter lawsuit, allows chance to refile", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/environment/judge-dismissed-project-jupiter-lawsuit-allows-chance-to-refile/article_58e04d4f-dca4-45e3-ab63-e3c7a750a8f9.html", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "KSFR (Source New Mexico) — New Mexico judge dismisses Project Jupiter lawsuit but offers chance to re-file", "url": "https://www.ksfr.org/government/2026-06-24/new-mexico-judge-dismisses-project-jupiter-data-center-lawsuit-but-offers-chance-to-re-file", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "ruled", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE63", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Litigant’s 2nd amended complaint dismissed (Jun 23 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP36", "type": "person", "name": "Rep. Kristina Ortez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-kristina-ortez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Representative, House District 42", "org": "PJO52", "current": true } ], "stake": "State representative and prime sponsor of HB 93 (2025), the bill the record ties to the \"self-sourced microgrid\" carve-out.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Prime sponsor of HB 93 (2025), the Advanced Grid Technology bill.", "src": [ 0, 1 ], "date": "2025" }, { "text": "The record ties HB 93 to the ETA \"self-sourced microgrid\" carve-out." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NM House Dist 42; PRIME sponsor of HB 93 (Advanced Grid Technology Plans, 2025)", "sources": [ { "label": "New Mexico Legislature — Fiscal Impact Report for HB 93 (2025), listing Rep. Ortez as sponsor", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/firs/HB0093.PDF", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "New Mexico Legislature — enrolled text of HB 93, the Advanced Grid Technology Act (2025)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0093.PDF", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "sponsored", "raw": "sponsored", "label": "Sponsored", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC78", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "HB 93 / ETA 'self-sourced microgrid' carve-out", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" } ], "timeline": [ "2025-03-20" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP37", "type": "person", "name": "Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-patricia-roybal-caballero", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Democratic New Mexico State Representative for House District 13 (Bernalillo County) since 2013; community economic developer; chair of the House Labor, Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Representative, House District 13", "org": "PJO52", "start": "2013", "current": true, "src": [ 0, 4 ] }, { "title": "Chair", "org_label": "House Labor, Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee", "current": true } ], "stake": "State representative who co-sponsored HB 93, the 2025 bill that carried the microgrid carve-out, and later co-sponsored SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-sponsored HB 93 (2025), which carried the last-minute microgrid amendment reported as benefiting the BorderPlex data center.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025" }, { "text": "Primary sponsor of HM 6 (2026), a study of private-equity ownership of infrastructure, postponed indefinitely on January 27, 2026.", "src": [ 3 ], "date": "2026-01-27" }, { "text": "Co-sponsored SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act, which the record describes as the corrective bill." }, { "text": "Wrote an op-ed opposing Bernhard Capital's private-equity takeover of New Mexico Gas Co.", "src": [ 2 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NM House Dist 13 since 2013; HB 93 co-sponsor AND sponsor of HM 6 (private-equity infrastructure-ownership study — implicates the Blue Owl/STACK structure); Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribal member", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Legislature — official legislator page for Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero (D, District 13)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Members/Legislator?SponCode=HROYB", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Santa Fe New Mexican — 'Behind-the-scenes deals paved the road to Project Jupiter' (names her as HB 93 co-sponsor; bill carried the last-minute microgrid amendment benefiting the Borderplex data center)", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/behind-the-scenes-deals-in-new-mexico-paved-the-road-to-project-jupiter/article_3917f534-44b4-4fcc-955e-e5da7ce920de.html", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Albuquerque Journal — op-ed authored by Roybal Caballero opposing the Bernhard Capital private-equity takeover of New Mexico Gas Co.", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/opinion-new-mexicans-deserve-transparency-not-trojan-horses-in-our-energy-system/2933936", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "FastDemocracy — HM 6 (2026) 'Private Equity Infrastructure Ownership' study memorial, Roybal Caballero primary sponsor (postponed indefinitely Jan 27, 2026)", "url": "https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/nm/2026/bills/NMB00012219/", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "Wikipedia — Patricia Roybal Caballero (biography: District 13 since 2013, Piro-Manso-Tiwa member, spouse R. Carlos Caballero)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Roybal_Caballero", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "sponsored", "raw": "sponsored", "label": "Sponsored", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC78", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "HB 93 / ETA 'self-sourced microgrid' carve-out", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" }, { "predicate": "sponsored", "raw": "co-sponsored", "label": "Sponsored", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC115", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "SB 235 — Microgrid Oversight Act (the corrective bill)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "sponsored", "raw": "sponsored-by", "label": "Sponsored", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD34", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "HM 6 (2026) — private-equity infrastructure-ownership study", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-03-20" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP38", "type": "person", "name": "Rep. Raymundo 'Ray' Lara", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-raymundo-ray-lara", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Representative, House District 34", "org": "PJO52", "current": true } ], "stake": "State representative listed by one source as an HB 93 co-sponsor, which the Legislature's sponsor list does not show, and a co-sponsor of HB 137, the Strategic Water Supply Act.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Listed as an HB 93 co-sponsor by one source; the Legislature's page lists three sponsors, and Lara's co-sponsorship is carried as unverified." }, { "text": "Co-sponsored HB 137, the Strategic Water Supply Act, a $75 million state desalination fund." } ], "aliases": [ "Ray Lara" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NM House Dist 34; listed as an HB 93 co-sponsor by NCEL only — not on the Legislature's sponsor list (unverified)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" }, { "predicate": "sponsored", "raw": "co-sponsored", "label": "Sponsored", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC118", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "HB 137 Strategic Water Supply Act ($75M state desal fund)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP39", "type": "person", "name": "Matt VanderZanden", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/matt-vanderzanden", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "stake": "Reported in December 2025 as CEO of STACK Infrastructure's Americas business; an August 2025 STACK press release names Brian Cox in that role, so the current title is unconfirmed.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "December 2025 reporting identifies VanderZanden as CEO of STACK Americas.", "date": "2025-12" }, { "text": "An August 2025 STACK press release lists Brian Cox as CEO of STACK Americas and EMEA, a possible succession.", "date": "2025-08" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "CEO STACK Americas per Dec 2025 reporting; NOTE possible succession — an Aug 2025 STACK press release lists Brian Cox as CEO STACK Americas & EMEA. Verify current title", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO5", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "STACK Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stack-infrastructure" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP40", "type": "person", "name": "Matt A'Hearn", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/matt-a-hearn", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Head of Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure", "org": "PJO6", "current": true } ], "stake": "Head of Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, who oversees the STACK platform for Blue Owl Capital.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Oversees the STACK Infrastructure platform." }, { "text": "Co-founded IPI Partners in 2016.", "date": "2016" }, { "text": "Blue Owl acquired IPI Partners in October 2024.", "date": "2024-10" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Head of Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure; co-founded IPI Partners 2016 (acquired by Blue Owl Oct 2024); oversees the STACK platform", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO6", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "oversees", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO5", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "STACK Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stack-infrastructure" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP41", "type": "person", "name": "Kacey J. Hovden", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/kacey-j-hovden", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Environmental Justice staff attorney", "org": "PJO16", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Environmental Justice staff attorney at the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, who signed its February 2026 Open Meetings Act complaint and is lead counsel in its IRB/LEDA case.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed the Open Meetings Act complaint the Environmental Law Center filed on February 6, 2026, the second OMA suit.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-02-06" }, { "text": "Lead counsel on the IRB/LEDA case before Judge DeLaney." }, { "text": "Called Santa Teresa \"a frontline, fence-line community.\"" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMELC Environmental Justice staff attorney; lead counsel on the IRB/LEDA case before DeLaney: 'valid or not' framing; called Santa Teresa 'a frontline, fence-line community'", "sources": [ { "label": "New Mexico Environmental Law Center — Open Meetings Act complaint signed by attorney Kacey J. Hovden (Feb. 6, 2026)", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-Complaint-Open-Meetings-Act-Lawsuit-Exs.-1-3-endorsed_-02-06-26.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "represents", "raw": "attorney-for", "label": "Legal counsel to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO16", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environmental Law Center (NMELC)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environmental-law-center-nmelc" }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "co-counsel-with", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP63", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Maslyn Locke", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/maslyn-locke" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "counsel-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE88", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMELC files the second OMA suit (Feb 6 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-02-06" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP42", "type": "person", "name": "Rep. Sarah Silva", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-sarah-silva", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "New Mexico State Representative, District 53 (D — Doña Ana & Otero counties), serving since January 2025; member of the House Appropriations & Finance and House Taxation & Revenue committees; occupation listed as Coach/Consultant.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Representative, House District 53", "org": "PJO52", "start": "2025-01", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Member", "org_label": "House Appropriations & Finance Committee", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Member", "org_label": "House Taxation & Revenue Committee", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Doña Ana County state representative who supports the project, negotiated its $50 million water and wastewater commitment for the Sunland Park area, and co-sponsors lobbying-disclosure bills.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "stance": { "position": "supports", "src": [ 1, 2 ], "basis": "Co-authored an op-ed supporting Project Jupiter with water protections and oversight." }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "Negotiated the $50 million water and wastewater commitment for the Sunland Park area, including a $10 million metrics-driven community water-quality grant program in the Project Participation Agreement." }, { "text": "Co-authored an op-ed with Reps. Small and Ferrary supporting Project Jupiter with water protections and oversight.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Co-sponsor with Sen. Steinborn of lobbying-disclosure bills: HB 143, vetoed in April 2025, and HB 35 in 2026.", "date": "2025-04-11" }, { "text": "Running for re-election in 2026.", "src": [ 4 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The Doña Ana representative who holds two threads at once: she negotiated the $50 million water/wastewater commitment for the Sunland Park area — including the $10M metrics-driven community water-quality grant program in the Project Participation Agreement — and she is Sen. Steinborn's multi-year co-sponsor on lobbying disclosure (HB 143, vetoed 2025; HB 35, 2026). Supporting the project's benefits agreement and pushing to expose how bills get written are not the same position twice — they are the same legislator doing both.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Legislature — official legislator page for Rep. Sarah Silva (D-53, Doña Ana & Otero)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Members/Legislator?SponCode=HSISA", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "El Paso Matters — opinion co-authored by Reps. Small, Silva, and Ferrary supporting Project Jupiter with water protections and oversight", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/16/project-jupiter-santa-teresa-data-center-state-representatives/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Haussamen.com — county to investigate Project Jupiter's water use; article ends with disclosure: \"State Rep. Sarah Silva, a supporter of Project Jupiter, is my spouse\"", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2026/04/14/county-to-investigate-project-jupiters-water-use/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Haussamen.com — About Heath Haussamen, stating he lives in Las Cruces with his spouse Sarah Silva, an elected Democratic state representative", "url": "https://haussamen.com/about-heath-haussamen/", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "New Mexicans for Sarah — campaign site for Rep. Sarah Silva (HD-53), running for re-election in 2026", "url": "https://www.newmexicansforsarah.com/", "kind": "official-bio" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "spouse-of", "raw": "spouse-of", "label": "Married to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP43", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Heath Haussamen", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/heath-haussamen" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" }, { "predicate": "supports", "raw": "supports", "label": "Supports", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE117", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Lobbying-disclosure bill passes both chambers — and is vetoed (Apr 11 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-04-11", "2026-02-14b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP43", "type": "person", "name": "Heath Haussamen", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/heath-haussamen", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Independent journalist in Las Cruces, NM, publishing news and commentary at haussamen.com; leading local investigative coverage of Project Jupiter", "profile": { "category": "journalist", "roles": [ { "title": "Independent journalist and news-site publisher", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Las Cruces independent journalist whose reporting on the project's agreements and water use leads local coverage of Project Jupiter.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Reported that the final Project Jupiter agreements grew from 359 to 1,583 pages.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "Reported that Project Jupiter would use more water than previously disclosed, the \"potable\" water story.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Founded the state politics site NMPolitics and co-founded the nonprofit New Mexico In Depth.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The Columbia Journalism Review profiled the reporting in a piece on AI data centers and diminished local news.", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "text": "Discloses in the project coverage that Haussamen's spouse, a state representative, supports the project.", "src": [ 3 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Lead independent journalist (haussamen.com; founded NMPolitics.net); broke the 359→1,583 pages + 'potable' stories; notes big firms target 'news deserts'. Disclosed his spouse Rep. Silva supports the project", "sources": [ { "label": "haussamen.com — About page: bio, career, outlets founded, family", "url": "https://haussamen.com/about/", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "haussamen.com — 'Project Jupiter will use more water than previously disclosed' (the 'potable' water story)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2026/04/09/project-jupiter-will-use-more-water-than-previously-disclosed/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "haussamen.com — 'Final Project Jupiter agreements grew exponentially' (359 → 1,583 pages story)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2025/12/18/final-project-jupiter-agreements-grew-exponentially/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Columbia Journalism Review — 'AI Data Centers in the Land of Diminished Local News' (profiles Haussamen's Project Jupiter reporting; discloses spouse Sarah Silva)", "url": "https://www.cjr.org/feature/ai-data-centers-local-news-deserts-meta-openai-texas-new-mexico.php", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "exposes", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC10", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Governance opacity / transparency failure", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "spouse-of", "raw": "spouse-of", "label": "Married to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP42", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Sarah Silva", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-sarah-silva" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC116", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter press & watchdog ecosystem", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "source-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP105", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Nick Maxwell", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/nick-maxwell" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "interviewed-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD36", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Lesser Known New Mexico podcast ep. 14 — Haussamen on Project Jupiter", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP44", "type": "person", "name": "Amanda Lavin", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/amanda-lavin", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Legal director", "org": "PJO17", "current": true } ], "stake": "Legal director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, who filed its public-records lawsuit against the county over withheld Project Jupiter emails.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Filed the Foundation's public-records lawsuit against the county on June 22, 2026.", "date": "2026-06-22" }, { "text": "The suit challenges the county's use of a \"terrorist tactical response plan\" exemption to withhold Project Jupiter emails." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMFOG legal director; filed the IPRA suit vs the county over its 'terrorist tactical response plan' exemption used to withhold Jupiter emails", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO17", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Foundation for Open Government (NMFOG)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-foundation-for-open-government-nmfog" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE7", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMFOG public-records lawsuit (Jun 22 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP45", "type": "person", "name": "Leah March", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/leah-march", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "journalist", "roles": [ { "title": "Reporter", "org_label": "Albuquerque Business First", "current": true } ], "stake": "Albuquerque Business First reporter who wrote the original story on the project's $5 billion announcement.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Wrote Albuquerque Business First's March 20, 2025 story on the original $5 billion announcement.", "date": "2025-03-20" }, { "text": "Reported on Project Jupiter for Albuquerque Business First." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Albuquerque Business First reporter; wrote the original $5B announcement story", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "reported", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD12", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Albuquerque Business First announcement (Mar 20 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP46", "type": "person", "name": "Sen. Jeff Steinborn", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-jeff-steinborn", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Senator", "org": "PJO52", "current": true } ], "stake": "State senator who sponsored SB 235, the 2026 Microgrid Oversight Act meant to close the HB 93 loophole for the project's on-site generation, and who convened the Senate's August 2026 listening session on Project Jupiter.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Sponsored SB 235 (2026), the Microgrid Oversight Act, an attempt to close the HB 93 loophole aimed at Project Jupiter's on-site generation.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026" }, { "text": "SB 235 passed the Senate 22–20 and died in House Judiciary.", "date": "2026" }, { "text": "Convened the New Mexico Senate listening session on Project Jupiter at NMSU's Corbett Center on August 11, 2026.", "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "Attended the state senators' Las Cruces community meeting on Project Jupiter on July 3, 2026.", "date": "2026-07-03" }, { "text": "Carried lobbying-disclosure legislation that passed both chambers and was vetoed on April 11, 2025.", "date": "2025-04-11" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "pro-transparency record. Sponsor of SB 235 (2026), the Microgrid Oversight Act — the attempt to close the HB 93 loophole aimed explicitly at Jupiter's on-site generation; passed the Senate 22-20, died in House Judiciary.", "sources": [ { "label": "New Mexico Legislature — SB 39 (2026), a separate Microgrid Oversight Act bill introduced by Sen. Jeff Steinborn (SB 235 is the one that passed the Senate)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0039.PDF", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "New Mexico Legislature — committee substitute for SB 235 (2026), the Microgrid Oversight Act", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0235COS.HTML", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" }, { "predicate": "sponsored", "raw": "sponsored", "label": "Sponsored", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC115", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "SB 235 — Microgrid Oversight Act (the corrective bill)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "sponsored", "raw": "sponsored", "label": "Sponsored", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE47", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "SB 235 passes Senate, dies in House (2026 session)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "attended", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE102", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "State senators' Las Cruces community meeting on Project Jupiter (Jul 3, 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "convened", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE103", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Senate listening session on Project Jupiter — Corbett Center, NMSU (Aug 11, 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC122", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "NM Senate committee-chair scrutiny (the state legislative front)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE117", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Lobbying-disclosure bill passes both chambers — and is vetoed (Apr 11 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-04-11", "2026-02-14b", "2026-02-14", "2026-02-19", "2026-08-11" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP47", "type": "person", "name": "Lisa Shalett", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/lisa-shalett", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Investment Officer", "org_label": "Morgan Stanley Wealth Management", "current": true } ], "stake": "Morgan Stanley Wealth Management's chief investment officer, cited in the record for tracking the December 2025 widening of Oracle's credit-default swaps as a signal of AI-capex risk.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Tracked the widening of Oracle's credit-default swaps in December 2025 as a signal of AI-capex risk.", "date": "2025-12" }, { "text": "The record ties the signal to Oracle's debt load, which it puts at roughly $108–150 billion." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Morgan Stanley Wealth Mgmt CIO; tracked Oracle CDS widening (Dec 2025) as an AI-capex-risk signal", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "flagged", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC96", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Oracle debt pyramid (~$108-150B)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP48", "type": "person", "name": "Mohamed El-Erian", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/mohamed-el-erian", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "Chair", "org_label": "Gramercy", "current": true }, { "title": "Adviser", "org_label": "Allianz", "current": true } ], "stake": "Economist cited in the record for saying in December 2025 that Oracle's investment-grade notes were trading more like junk bonds.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Said in December 2025 that Oracle's investment-grade notes were \"now trading more like junk bonds,\" a signal about the repricing of AI-exposed balance sheets.", "date": "2025-12" }, { "text": "Commented on Blue Owl's February 2026 halt of redemptions and $1.4 billion loan sale.", "date": "2026-02" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Economist (Gramercy chair, Allianz adviser); Dec 2025: Oracle's IG notes 'now trading more like junk bonds'; a signal about repricing AI-exposed balance sheets", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "flagged", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC96", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Oracle debt pyramid (~$108-150B)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "commented-on", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE22", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Blue Owl halts redemptions / $1.4B loan sale (Feb 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP49", "type": "person", "name": "Alisha A. Giron", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/alisha-a-giron", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "academic", "roles": [ { "title": "Associate Vice President for Research", "org": "PJO15", "current": true } ], "stake": "NMSU's Associate Vice President for Research and a named signatory on the university's February 2025 desalination advisory agreement with BorderPlex.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named as a signatory on the NMSU–BorderPlex desalination advisory agreement of February 25, 2025.", "date": "2025-02-25" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMSU Associate VP for Research; named signatory on the BorderPlex agreement", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO15", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Mexico State University (NMSU)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-mexico-state-university-nmsu" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD13", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NMSU–BorderPlex desal advisory agreement (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP50", "type": "person", "name": "Barbara Gonzales", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/barbara-gonzales", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Contracting officer", "org": "PJO15", "current": true } ], "stake": "NMSU contracting officer who executed the university's February 2025 desalination advisory agreement with BorderPlex.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Executed the NMSU–BorderPlex desalination advisory agreement of February 25, 2025.", "date": "2025-02-25" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMSU contracting officer; executed the BorderPlex agreement", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO15", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Mexico State University (NMSU)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-mexico-state-university-nmsu" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD13", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NMSU–BorderPlex desal advisory agreement (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP51", "type": "person", "name": "Josh Pitcock", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/josh-pitcock", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at Oracle Corporation; former Chief of Staff to Vice President Mike Pence and lead author/signer of Oracle's public advocacy for Project Jupiter", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Senior Vice President of Government Affairs", "org": "PJO1", "start": "2024-09", "current": true, "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Chief of Staff to the Vice President", "org_label": "Office of Vice President Mike Pence", "end": "2017", "current": false, "src": [ 0, 2 ] } ], "stake": "Oracle's senior vice president of government affairs and the signer and author of its public advocacy for Project Jupiter, including letters urging NMED to approve the air permit.", "jurisdiction": "private", "stance": { "position": "supports", "src": [ 3 ], "basis": "Speaks for Oracle in support of the project, including defending its fuel cells against toxic-chemical claims." }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed Oracle's March 2026 letter to NMED supporting the air permit.", "date": "2026-03" }, { "text": "Signed Oracle's July 2, 2026 letter to NMED urging approval.", "date": "2026-07-02" }, { "text": "Quoted defending the project's fuel cells against toxic-chemical claims.", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "text": "A 12-year aide to Mike Pence and his White House chief of staff before moving to Oracle in October 2017.", "src": [ 0, 2 ], "date": "2017-10" }, { "text": "A federally registered lobbyist through January 2026 who lobbied on E.O. 14318, the federal data-center permitting order, by name." }, { "text": "Not found on any New Mexico lobbying registry the record checked." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Oracle SVP Government Affairs; Mike Pence's 12-yr aide + WH Chief of Staff to the VP (WH→Oracle Oct 2017).", "sources": [ { "label": "Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service — official bio (SVP Government Affairs, Oracle; former Chief of Staff to VP Pence)", "url": "https://politics.georgetown.edu/profile/josh-pitcock/", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "LegiStorm — Josh Pitcock, Oracle Corp. Senior Vice President of Government Affairs (Sept. 2024–)", "url": "https://www.legistorm.com/person/bio/16208/Joshua_Matthew_Pitcock.html", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "American Presidency Project (UCSB) — VP Pence press release announcing Pitcock's departure as Chief of Staff, 2017", "url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/press-release-vice-president-pence-announces-departure-longtime-aide-and-chief-staff-josh", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "BizSugar — Oracle SVP Josh Pitcock quoted defending Project Jupiter fuel cells against toxic-chemical claims", "url": "https://bizsugar.com/small-business-news/oracle-clarifies-misconceptions-about-fuel-cells-and-toxic-chemicals/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Wikipedia — Josh Pitcock (career history; spouse Katherine A. Seaman)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Pitcock", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "govt-affairs-lead-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE66", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle NMED permit-support letter, signed Pitcock (Mar 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC107", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Oracle's Pence-network revolving door (Pitcock)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbied-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC109", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "E.O. 14318 federal data-center permitting override", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC117", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Five-layer institutional stack (synthesis)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD46", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Oracle letter to NMED urging approval (Jul 2 2026, signed Pitcock)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI2", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Revolving door — Josh Pitcock", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#revolving-door-josh-pitcock" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL204", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The project's executives gave the Democratic nominee $112,200; the Republican, nothing", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-17b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP52", "type": "person", "name": "Dan McGuire", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/dan-mcguire", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Operations manager", "org": "PJO66", "org_label": "Acoma, LLC", "current": true } ], "stake": "Operations manager for Acoma, LLC and the operations contact listed on the project's air-permit applications.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Listed as the operations contact on the New Source Review air-permit applications." }, { "text": "Declined to comment on the permit delay." }, { "text": "The record found no biography or prior employer." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Operations manager for Acoma LLC; declined comment on the permit delay (Tri-City Record / Source NM).", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "operations-manager-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO66", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP53", "type": "person", "name": "Rob Black", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rob-black", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "appointed-official", "roles": [ { "title": "Cabinet Secretary", "org": "PJO13", "current": true } ], "stake": "New Mexico's Economic Development Cabinet Secretary, whose department signed the project's MOU and who administers the $75 million state desalination fund created by HB 137.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Was Secretary-Designate of the Economic Development Department when the MOU was signed on February 25, 2025; the department is the MOU's signatory agency.", "date": "2025-02-25" }, { "text": "Named in the Governor's February 25, 2025 BorderPlex press release.", "date": "2025-02-25" }, { "text": "Administers the $75 million state desalination fund created by HB 137, the Strategic Water Supply Act." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NM EDD Cabinet Secretary (Sec-Designate at the Feb 25 2025 MOU); EDD is the MOU signatory agency. ALSO administers the HB 137 Strategic Water Supply Act's $75M state desalination fund — state money backstopping the project's water", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "secretary-designate-of", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO13", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Economic Development Dept (NMEDD)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-economic-development-dept-nmedd" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "names", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD19", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Governor's Feb 25 2025 BorderPlex press release", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "administers", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC118", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "HB 137 Strategic Water Supply Act ($75M state desal fund)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL125", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Apaluma received ~$213k in state job-training grants from the agency Keyes once led", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP54", "type": "person", "name": "Daniel Bailet", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/daniel-bailet", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Vice President, Business Development", "org": "PJO79", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "EPCOR Water's vice president of business development, named in the Governor's February 25, 2025 release as the desalination-feasibility partner.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named in the Governor's February 25, 2025 BorderPlex release as the desalination-feasibility partner.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-02-25" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "VP Business Development, EPCOR Water; named in the Gov's Feb 25 2025 release as the desalination-feasibility partner", "sources": [ { "label": "Office of the New Mexico Governor — Feb. 25, 2025 release naming EPCOR's Daniel Bailet on desalination feasibility", "url": "https://www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/02/25/governor-announces-partnership-with-borderplex-digital-digital-infrastructure-campus-represents-5-billion-investment-in-santa-teresa-expected-to-create-1000-jobs/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO79", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "EPCOR (Water)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/epcor-water" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "names", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD19", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Governor's Feb 25 2025 BorderPlex press release", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP55", "type": "person", "name": "Manuel A. Sanchez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/manuel-a-sanchez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Doña Ana County Commissioner, District 5; commission chair since January 13, 2026.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "County Commissioner, District 5", "org": "PJO9", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Commission Chair", "org": "PJO9", "start": "2026-01-13", "current": true, "src": [ 1 ] } ], "stake": "Doña Ana County District 5 commissioner, elected commission chair in January 2026, who voted yes on the Project Jupiter industrial revenue bonds.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Voted yes on the industrial revenue bonds on September 19, 2025.", "date": "2025-09-19" }, { "text": "Elected commission chair unanimously on January 13, 2026.", "date": "2026-01-13" }, { "text": "Chaired the commission when it created the Community Monitoring Committee by Resolution 2026-101 on August 11, 2026.", "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "On the SENMEDD contract the commission approved 4–0 on August 14, 2026, said it was \"truly the best option based off of the cost.\"", "date": "2026-08-14" }, { "text": "Pointed to Oracle's August 11 water breakdown, which puts the fifteen-year total at about 13.5 million gallons of non-potable water.", "date": "2026-08-25" }, { "text": "On September 8, 2026, said the bond agreements were built around on-site generation, so a move to the grid would return to the commission and could require amending them.", "date": "2026-09-08" } ], "aliases": [ "Manny Sanchez" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "District 5 Commissioner; elected 2026 Commission Chair (unanimous, Jan 13 2026); YES vote on the IRBs — the previously-missing D5 seat", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB inducement resolution listing Manuel A. Sanchez, District 5, in its signature block (mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "Heath Haussamen — \"Project Jupiter back on better footing, commission chairman says\" (May 21, 2026)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2026/05/21/project-jupiter-back-on-better-footing-commission-chairman-says/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO9", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission" }, { "predicate": "supports", "raw": "voted-for", "label": "Supports", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE2", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "IRB approval + closed session (Sept 19 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "chairs", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE126", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Community Monitoring Committee created (Resolution 2026-101, Aug 11 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL159", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Oracle's fifteen-year water total, broken out — and the two ways it is stated", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE143", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle names a fallback: the grid (Sept 8 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE157", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "One year after the bond vote: the monitoring committee is seated (Sept 22 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-09-19", "2026-08-11b", "2026-08-14", "2026-08-25", "2026-09-08", "2026-09-22" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP56", "type": "person", "name": "Scott Andrews", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/scott-andrews", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "County Manager", "org": "PJO96", "start": "2024-08", "end": "2026-07-28", "current": false }, { "title": "Assistant City Manager", "org_label": "Bakersfield, CA", "current": false } ], "stake": "Former Doña Ana County Manager who signed the county's framework MOU for the project three days after the bond vote; the commission ended the contract in July 2026.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed the county's framework MOU as \"CEO\" on September 22, 2025, three days after the bond vote; it was countersigned on September 24.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-09-22" }, { "text": "Alleged to have signed the BorderPlex NDA without commission authorization." }, { "text": "Named in the Environmental Law Center's February 6, 2026 Open Meetings Act complaint.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026-02-06" }, { "text": "The commission terminated the contract unanimously, without cause, on July 28, 2026.", "date": "2026-07-28" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "County Manager (appointed Aug 2024; ex-Asst City Manager Bakersfield CA); alleged to have signed the BorderPlex NDA without commission authorization SIGNED the county framework MOU as 'CEO' on 9/22/2025 — three days after the vote…", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — executed Memorandum of Understanding signed by Scott Andrews (mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Executed-Memorandum-of-Understanding-MOU.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "New Mexico Environmental Law Center — Open Meetings Act complaint naming County Manager Scott Andrews (Feb. 6, 2026)", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-Complaint-Open-Meetings-Act-Lawsuit-Exs.-1-3-endorsed_-02-06-26.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO96", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County government (staff)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-government-staff" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "subject-of", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL81", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "County Manager Scott Andrews allegedly signed the NDA without commission authorization", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE95", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "County MOU executed — post-vote, by the county manager (Sep 22/24 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-28" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP57", "type": "person", "name": "Stephen Lopez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/stephen-lopez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Assistant County Manager", "org": "PJO96", "current": true }, { "title": "Joint acting county manager", "org": "PJO96", "start": "2026-07-28", "current": true } ], "stake": "Doña Ana County's Assistant County Manager and operational spokesperson on the project, named one of three joint acting county managers in July 2026.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Speaks for the county on the project's grading permits, site work and desalination." }, { "text": "Appointed a joint acting county manager with Deb Weir and Lucio Luttrell on July 28, 2026, after the county manager's contract was terminated.", "date": "2026-07-28" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Assistant County Manager; the county's operational spokesman on Jupiter (grading permits, site work, desalination)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO96", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County government (staff)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-government-staff" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-28" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP58", "type": "person", "name": "Cari Neill", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/cari-neill", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Interim County Attorney", "org": "PJO96", "current": false } ], "stake": "Doña Ana County's interim county attorney, who guided the county's October 14, 2025 Open Meetings Act corrective action.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Led the county's Open Meetings Act corrective action on October 14, 2025.", "date": "2025-10-14" }, { "text": "Framed the closed session as protected by attorney-client privilege." }, { "text": "Neill's correspondence is among the exhibits to the Environmental Law Center's February 6, 2026 Open Meetings Act complaint.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-02-06" }, { "text": "The county's Legal/Risk page now lists the County Attorney post as vacant; who is acting as county attorney is not published.", "src": [ 1 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Interim County Attorney as of October 2025 (the county's Legal/Risk page now lists the County Attorney post as vacant); guided the Oct 14 2025 OMA corrective; framed the closed session as attorney-client privileged; later 'we just don't…", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Environmental Law Center — Open Meetings Act complaint, with exhibits including County Attorney Cari Neill's correspondence (Feb. 6, 2026)", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-Complaint-Open-Meetings-Act-Lawsuit-Exs.-1-3-endorsed_-02-06-26.pdf", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "Doña Ana County — Legal/Risk Department page (County Attorney: VACANT), read Sept 28 2026", "url": "https://www.donaana.gov/departments/administration/legal_risk_department/index.php", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO96", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County government (staff)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-government-staff" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "led", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE72", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "County OMA corrective action (Oct 14 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP59", "type": "person", "name": "Nelson J. Goodin", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/nelson-j-goodin", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "County Attorney", "org": "PJO96", "current": false } ], "stake": "Listed as Doña Ana County Attorney in an earlier county staff directory; the county's Legal/Risk page now shows that post as vacant.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The county's Legal/Risk Department page lists the County Attorney post as vacant.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Listed as County Attorney in an earlier county staff directory; the county's Legal/Risk page now shows the County Attorney post as vacant.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — Legal/Risk Department page (County Attorney: VACANT), read Sept 28 2026", "url": "https://www.donaana.gov/departments/administration/legal_risk_department/index.php", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO96", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County government (staff)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-government-staff" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP60", "type": "person", "name": "Fred Kennon", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/fred-kennon", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Deputy County Attorney", "org": "PJO96", "current": true } ], "stake": "Doña Ana County Deputy County Attorney, as listed in the county staff directory.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Deputy County Attorney (staff directory)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO96", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County government (staff)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-government-staff" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP61", "type": "person", "name": "Denisse Carter", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/denisse-carter", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Economic Development Director", "org": "PJO96", "start": "2025-10", "current": true } ], "stake": "Doña Ana County's economic development director, who declared Project Jupiter out of compliance on June 24, 2026.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Appointed county economic development director in October 2025.", "date": "2025-10" }, { "text": "Declared Project Jupiter \"out of compliance\" on June 24, 2026, after missed job-report deadlines.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-06-24" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "County Economic Development Director (CEcD, appointed Oct 2025); declared Jupiter 'out of compliance' Jun 24 2026", "sources": [ { "label": "Albuquerque Journal — \"Project Jupiter missed job report deadlines, county says\"", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/project-jupiter-missed-job-report-deadlines-county-says/3068768", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO96", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County government (staff)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-government-staff" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "declared", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE71", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "County declares Project Jupiter 'out of compliance' (Jun 24 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP62", "type": "person", "name": "Christina Ainsworth", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/christina-ainsworth", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Director, Community Development", "org": "PJO96", "current": true } ], "stake": "Doña Ana County's Community Development director, the custodian of the county's planning and zoning process.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Director, Community Development (custodian of the P&Z process)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO96", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County government (staff)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-government-staff" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP63", "type": "person", "name": "Maslyn Locke", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/maslyn-locke", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Senior staff attorney", "org": "PJO16", "current": true } ], "stake": "Senior staff attorney at the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, co-counsel on both of its suits and counsel for residents who are parties to the air-permit hearing.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-counsel with Kacey J. Hovden on both of the Environmental Law Center's suits." }, { "text": "Counsel for residents who are parties to the air-permit hearing." }, { "text": "After the hearing was moved up five weeks, said attorneys would not have time to review the case materials or prepare expert witnesses before a hearing \"less than two months\" away.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07" }, { "text": "On the hearing officer's August 22, 2026 recusal, said he \"did the right thing\" and that the groups hope residents will have a role in choosing a replacement.", "date": "2026-08-22" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMELC senior staff attorney, co-counsel on both NMELC suits and counsel for the residents who are parties to the air-permit hearing. On the hearing being moved up five weeks: attorneys would not have time to review the case materials or prepare expert witnesses before a hearing now “less than two months” away.", "sources": [ { "label": "ABQ Journal — hearing date changes to September", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/project-jupiter-air-quality-hearing-date-changes-to-september/3094091", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "represents", "raw": "attorney-for", "label": "Legal counsel to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO16", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environmental Law Center (NMELC)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environmental-law-center-nmelc" }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "co-counsel-with", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP41", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Kacey J. Hovden", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/kacey-j-hovden" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE136", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The hearing officer recuses himself (Aug 22 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-22" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP64", "type": "person", "name": "Amelia Bierle", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/amelia-bierle", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Deputy Director", "org": "PJO68", "current": true } ], "stake": "Deputy director of the New Mexico State Ethics Commission and the agency's representative in its suit against Elevate New Mexico.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Represented the Ethics Commission in its April 17, 2026 suit against Elevate New Mexico.", "date": "2026-04-17" }, { "text": "Authored the Ethics Commission's September 16, 2026 press release on Oracle's disclosure.", "date": "2026-09-16" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Deputy Director, NM State Ethics Commission; agency rep on the Elevate NM suit", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "official-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO68", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Ethics Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-ethics-commission" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE60", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Ethics Commission sues Elevate NM (Apr 17 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD69", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "State Ethics Commission press release on Oracle's disclosure (Sept 16 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-04-17" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP65", "type": "person", "name": "Matthias Sayer", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/matthias-sayer", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "lobbyist", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-owner", "org": "PJO86", "current": true }, { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO4", "current": true }, { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO64", "current": true } ], "stake": "Co-owner of Bradfute Sayer Consulting & Legal Services and a registered lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets, the project's developer, and for Apaluma.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The \"Sayer\" in Bradfute Sayer Consulting & Legal Services, co-owned with Jennifer Bradfute." }, { "text": "Practices in energy, water and public lands." }, { "text": "Registered as a lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets and for Apaluma." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-28" }, "summary": "The 'Sayer' — co-owner of Bradfute Sayer; energy/water/public-lands practice; registered for BorderPlex (2025 roster, from Jan 27 and Feb 1 2025) and Apaluma (from Jan 20 2025), both marked Authorized: No; not on WATR Alliance's roster…", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Secretary of State — lobbyist-employer rosters (GetAuthorizedLobbyists), 2025–2026, as shown on the public client pages (pulled Sept 27 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "co-owner-of", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO86", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bradfute Sayer Consulting & Legal Services", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bradfute-sayer-consulting-legal-services" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO64", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Apaluma", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/apaluma" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-28" }, { "id": "PJP66", "type": "person", "name": "Tatiana D. Engelmann", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/tatiana-d-engelmann", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Assistant General Counsel", "org": "PJO10", "current": true } ], "stake": "NMED Assistant General Counsel and the point of contact on the completeness of the Acoma air-permit application.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Served as NMED's point of contact on the completeness of the Acoma permit application." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMED Assistant General Counsel; point of contact on the Acoma permit completeness", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP67", "type": "person", "name": "Drew Goretzka", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/drew-goretzka", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Director of Communications", "org": "PJO10", "current": true } ], "stake": "NMED's Director of Communications, who confirmed the air-permit hearing schedule and hearing officer to Source NM.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Confirmed the air-permit hearing schedule and the hearing officer to Source NM." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMED Director of Communications; confirmed the hearing schedule/officer to Source NM", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP68", "type": "person", "name": "Jonas Armstrong", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jonas-armstrong", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Director, Water Protection Division", "org": "PJO10", "current": true } ], "stake": "NMED's Water Protection Division director, whose bureaus' records feed Apaluma's \"Project Velocity\" and who appeared in Apaluma's promotional video.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Records of the division's bureaus feed Apaluma's \"Project Velocity.\"" }, { "text": "Appeared in Apaluma's promotional video." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMED Water Protection Division Director; his bureaus' records feed Apaluma's Project Velocity; appeared in Apaluma's promo video", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "appears-in-apaluma-video", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP69", "type": "person", "name": "Michelle Miano", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/michelle-miano", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Director, Environmental Protection Division", "org": "PJO10", "current": true } ], "stake": "NMED's Environmental Protection Division director, one of the senior officials who appeared in agency contractor Apaluma's promotional video, which was later taken down.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Appeared in Apaluma's promotional video endorsing the agency contractor's product, around November 2025.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-11" }, { "text": "The video was taken down by May 31, 2026.", "date": "2026-05-31" }, { "text": "The Air Quality Bureau's July 1, 2026 memorandum recommending a public hearing on the permit went to the Cabinet Secretary through Miano.", "date": "2026-07-01" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMED's Environmental Protection Division Director — one of the senior officials who appeared in Apaluma's promo video endorsing the agency contractor's product; the video was later taken down.", "sources": [ { "label": "The Candle — second contract + video transcript", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-secretary-keyes-and-apaluma-added-to-a-second-nmed-contract-valued-at-977354-and-promoted-by-kenney/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "appears-in-apaluma-video", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "appeared-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE111", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Apaluma promo video — Kenney stars, then it vanishes", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-01" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP70", "type": "person", "name": "John Rhoderick", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/john-rhoderick", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "appointed-official", "roles": [ { "title": "Deputy Secretary of Administration", "org": "PJO10", "current": true }, { "title": "Acting Water Protection Director", "org": "PJO10", "current": false } ], "stake": "NMED's Deputy Secretary of Administration, delegated final decision authority over the Project Jupiter air permit on July 2, 2026, who earlier signed the contract amendment that made the department's technical contractor a supplier of hearing officers.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed Amendment No. 01 to NMED's contract with Eastern Research Group on September 12, 2025, adding the hearing-officer function, on the signature line printed for Cabinet Secretary Kenney.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025-09-12" }, { "text": "Delegated final decision authority over the Project Jupiter air permit on July 2, 2026.", "date": "2026-07-02" }, { "text": "Named in that capacity in the caption of the Supreme Court mandamus case." }, { "text": "Appeared in Apaluma's promotional video endorsing the contractor's product; the video was taken down by May 31, 2026.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The record draws no inference from these facts together; they are recorded because they are documented." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMED's Deputy Secretary of Administration — appeared in Apaluma's promo video endorsing the contractor's product; the video was later taken down. He signed Amendment No. 01 to the NMED–ERG contract on September 12, 2025 — the instrument adding the hearing-officer function — on the signature line printed for Cabinet Secretary Kenney, and on July 2, 2026 was delegated final decision authority over the Project Jupiter air permit. He is named in that capacity in the Supreme Court mandamus caption. No inference is drawn here from the conjunction of those facts; they are recorded because they are documented and because a reader assembling this record would find them.", "sources": [ { "label": "The Candle — second contract + video transcript", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-secretary-keyes-and-apaluma-added-to-a-second-nmed-contract-valued-at-977354-and-promoted-by-kenney/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Maxwell's Response and Supplemental Motion concerning the ERG contractual relationship — AQB 26-57(P), Aug 21 2026 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/08/2026-08-21-AQB-26-57-Resp-Mot-Disqualify-Supplemental-Mot-wExhibits.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "appears-in-apaluma-video", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "appeared-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE111", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Apaluma promo video — Kenney stars, then it vanishes", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE153", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED amends its technical contractor's agreement to supply hearing officers (Sept 12 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-09-12", "2026-07-02", "2026-10-02" ], "updated": "2026-10-02" }, { "id": "PJP71", "type": "person", "name": "Meta Hirschl", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/meta-hirschl", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Data & Technology Steward", "org": "PJO10", "current": true } ], "stake": "NMED's Chief Data & Technology Steward, who coined \"Project Velocity\" and specified in internal emails how agency records would flow into Apaluma's AI system.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Coined the name \"Project Velocity\" in internal emails.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Specified in those emails how the agency's records would be handed off into Apaluma's AI system.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Appeared in Apaluma's promotional video, around November 2025, as reported by a single outlet; the video was taken down by May 31, 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-11" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMED's Chief Data & Technology Steward — the official who coined 'Project Velocity,' specified in internal emails how the agency's records would flow into Apaluma's AI system, and appeared in the company's promo video before it vanished.", "sources": [ { "label": "The Candle — second contract + video transcript", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-secretary-keyes-and-apaluma-added-to-a-second-nmed-contract-valued-at-977354-and-promoted-by-kenney/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "The Candle — no-bid deal emails", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-nm-economic-secretary-alicia-keyes-scores-big-no-bid-deal-converting-state-enviro-data-for-her-ai-agent-luma/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "appears-in-apaluma-video", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "appeared-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE111", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Apaluma promo video — Kenney stars, then it vanishes", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP72", "type": "person", "name": "Zachary Ogaz", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/zachary-ogaz", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "NMED General Counsel (per the NMDOJ's July 2026 letter); earlier appeared in the record via the Water Protection Division.", "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "General Counsel", "org": "PJO10", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Deputy or acting official, Water Protection Division", "org": "PJO10", "current": false } ], "stake": "NMED's General Counsel, per a July 2026 letter from the New Mexico Department of Justice.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Copied as NMED's General Counsel on a July 2026 New Mexico Department of Justice letter.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07" }, { "text": "Earlier appeared in the record through NMED's Water Protection Division." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMED General Counsel (per the NMDOJ's Jul 9 2026 letter); earlier in the record via the Water Protection Division (deputy/acting)", "sources": [ { "label": "NMDOJ letter (cc line: 'Zachary Ogaz, General Counsel, NMED')", "url": "https://kvia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-09-NMDOJ-Ltr-to-NMED-JKenney-re-YGI-.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP73", "type": "person", "name": "Richard Horman", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/richard-horman", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Global Head of Finance", "org": "PJO49", "current": true } ], "stake": "Global head of finance at Orion Digital Infrastructure.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "A \"Richard Hormann\" also appears at Stellar Energy; the record has not confirmed they are the same person." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Orion Global Head of Finance (a 'Richard Hormann' also appears at Stellar — verify same person)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO49", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Orion Digital Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/orion-digital-infrastructure" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP74", "type": "person", "name": "Sam Abadalla", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sam-abadalla", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Global Head of Development", "org": "PJO49", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "CEO", "org": "PJO77", "current": true }, { "title": "Vice President, Projects", "org": "PJO83", "current": false }, { "title": "Strategy", "org": "PJO76", "current": false } ], "stake": "Global head of development at Orion Digital Infrastructure and CEO of Nebula Energy, part of the New Fortress Energy alumni group the record traces into data-center power.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Listed as Global Head of Development on Orion Digital Infrastructure's About page.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Also CEO of Nebula Energy." }, { "text": "Previously Vice President, Projects at New Fortress Energy, and worked in strategy at Stellar Energy." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Orion Global Head of Development; also CEO of Nebula Energy; ex-NFE VP Projects, ex-Stellar strategy", "sources": [ { "label": "Orion Digital Infrastructure — About page listing Sam Abadalla as Global Head of Development", "url": "https://www.oriondigitalinfrastructure.com/about", "kind": "official-bio" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "alum-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO83", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Fortress Energy (NFE)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-fortress-energy-nfe" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO49", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Orion Digital Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/orion-digital-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO77", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Nebula Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nebula-energy" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC114", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "LNG-world pivot (NFE alumni → data-center power)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "alum-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO76", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Stellar Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stellar-energy" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP75", "type": "person", "name": "DeLaine Mayer", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/delaine-mayer", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief of Staff", "org": "PJO49", "current": true }, { "title": "Founding member", "org": "PJO77", "current": true }, { "title": "Lecturer in astropolitics", "org_label": "NYU", "current": true } ], "stake": "Chief of staff at Orion Digital Infrastructure and a founding member of Nebula Energy.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Chief of staff at Orion Digital Infrastructure." }, { "text": "A founding member of Nebula Energy." }, { "text": "Lectures on astropolitics at NYU." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Orion Chief of Staff; founding member of Nebula Energy; NYU astropolitics lecturer", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO49", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Orion Digital Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/orion-digital-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "founding-member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO77", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Nebula Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nebula-energy" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC114", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "LNG-world pivot (NFE alumni → data-center power)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP76", "type": "person", "name": "Brian Cox", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brian-cox", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "CEO, STACK Americas & EMEA (per an August 2025 press release)", "org": "PJO5", "current": true } ], "stake": "Named CEO of STACK Americas and EMEA in an August 2025 STACK press release; the record has not settled whether this role preceded or runs alongside Matt VanderZanden's.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "An August 2025 STACK press release lists Cox as CEO of STACK Americas and EMEA.", "date": "2025-08" }, { "text": "December 2025 reporting names Matt VanderZanden as CEO of STACK Americas; the record treats Cox as a possible predecessor or parallel." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "CEO STACK Americas & EMEA per an Aug 2025 STACK press release (possible predecessor/parallel to VanderZanden)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO5", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "STACK Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stack-infrastructure" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP77", "type": "person", "name": "Marc Zahr", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/marc-zahr", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Co-President and Global Head of Real Assets", "org": "PJO6", "current": true } ], "stake": "Blue Owl Capital's co-president and global head of real assets, the side of the firm the record ties to ODI Fund III, STACK's parent vehicle.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The record ties the real-assets role to ODI Fund III, STACK's parent vehicle." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Blue Owl Co-President & Global Head of Real Assets (ODI Fund III, STACK's parent vehicle)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO6", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP78", "type": "person", "name": "Luke Gilpin", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/luke-gilpin", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Managing Director, Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure", "org": "PJO6", "current": true } ], "stake": "Managing director at Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, part of Blue Owl Capital.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Previously at IPI Partners." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure MD; ex-IPI Partners", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO6", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP79", "type": "person", "name": "Jack Viellieu", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jack-viellieu", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Managing Director, Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure", "org": "PJO6", "start": "2026-01", "current": true } ], "stake": "Managing director at Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, part of Blue Owl Capital, promoted in January 2026.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Promoted to managing director in January 2026.", "date": "2026-01" }, { "text": "Previously at IPI Partners." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Blue Owl DI MD (promoted Jan 2026); ex-IPI Partners", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO6", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP80", "type": "person", "name": "Kamila Kennedy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/kamila-kennedy", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Principal, Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure", "org": "PJO6", "current": true } ], "stake": "Principal at Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, part of Blue Owl Capital.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Previously at IPI Partners." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Blue Owl DI Principal; ex-IPI Partners", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO6", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP81", "type": "person", "name": "Liam Fleming", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/liam-fleming", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Vice President, Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure", "org": "PJO6", "current": true } ], "stake": "Vice president at Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, part of Blue Owl Capital.", "jurisdiction": "private", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Blue Owl DI Vice President", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO6", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP82", "type": "person", "name": "Karen Hager", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/karen-hager", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Compliance Officer, Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust", "org": "PJO6", "current": true } ], "stake": "Chief compliance officer of the Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust, as named in its SEC Form 10.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named as chief compliance officer in the Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust's SEC Form 10." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Chief Compliance Officer, Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust (SEC Form 10)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO6", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP83", "type": "person", "name": "Neena Reddy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/neena-reddy", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Legal Officer, Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust", "org": "PJO6", "current": true } ], "stake": "Chief legal officer of the Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust, as named in its SEC Form 10.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named as chief legal officer in the Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust's SEC Form 10." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Chief Legal Officer, Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust (SEC Form 10)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO6", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP84", "type": "person", "name": "Brian Allen", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brian-allen", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Group Chief Operating Officer", "org": "PJO76", "current": true } ], "stake": "Group chief operating officer of Stellar Energy.", "jurisdiction": "private", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Group COO, Stellar Energy", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO76", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Stellar Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stellar-energy" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP85", "type": "person", "name": "Tom Brady", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/tom-brady", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Technology Officer", "org": "PJO76", "current": true } ], "stake": "Chief technology officer of Stellar Energy, per a single outlet.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Identified as Stellar Energy's CTO by a single outlet." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "CTO, Stellar Energy (single-outlet)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO76", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Stellar Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stellar-energy" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP86", "type": "person", "name": "Ryan Goodman", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/ryan-goodman", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "CEO", "org": "PJO72", "current": true } ], "stake": "CEO of Scale Microgrids, the EQT-owned company the record lists as a co-founder entity of Orion Digital Infrastructure.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Scale Microgrids is owned by EQT." }, { "text": "The record lists Scale Microgrids as a co-founder entity of Orion Digital Infrastructure." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "CEO, Scale Microgrids (EQT-owned) — Orion co-founder entity", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO72", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "SCALE Infrastructure Partners (Scale Microgrids)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/scale-infrastructure-partners-scale-microgrids" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP87", "type": "person", "name": "Brian Condit", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brian-condit", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "advocate", "roles": [ { "title": "Executive Director", "org": "PJO87", "current": true } ], "stake": "Executive director of the New Mexico Building & Construction Trades Council, who endorsed the project's jobs.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Endorsed the jobs the project would bring." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Executive Director, NM Building & Construction Trades Council; endorsed the project's jobs", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO87", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Building & Construction Trades Council", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-building-construction-trades-council" }, { "predicate": "supports", "raw": "supports", "label": "Supports", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP88", "type": "person", "name": "Gerardo Fierro", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gerardo-fierro", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "appointed-official", "roles": [ { "title": "Official", "org": "PJO88", "current": true } ], "stake": "New Mexico Border Authority official who, per a single outlet, hosted the BorderPlex team in March 2025.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Hosted the BorderPlex Digital Assets team in March 2025, as reported by a single outlet.", "date": "2025-03" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NM Border Authority; hosted the BorderPlex team (Mar 2025), named Keyes (single-outlet)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "official-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO88", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Border Authority", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-border-authority" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "hosted", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP89", "type": "person", "name": "Luis Cifuentes", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/luis-cifuentes", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "academic", "roles": [ { "title": "Vice President for Research", "org": "PJO15", "end": "2025-09-01", "current": false } ], "stake": "NMSU's Vice President for Research until retiring on September 1, 2025; that office routes the university's sponsored-research and public-records requests, which makes it relevant to the NDA records.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Retired as NMSU's Vice President for Research on September 1, 2025.", "date": "2025-09-01" }, { "text": "The office routes sponsored-research and public-records (IPRA) records, which makes it relevant to the NDA." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMSU VP for Research (retired Sep 1 2025) — the office that routes sponsored-research/IPRA records (NDA-relevant)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO15", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Mexico State University (NMSU)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-mexico-state-university-nmsu" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP90", "type": "person", "name": "Patricia Sullivan", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/patricia-sullivan", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "academic", "roles": [ { "title": "Interim Vice President for Research", "org": "PJO15", "start": "2025-09-01", "current": true } ], "stake": "NMSU's interim Vice President for Research from September 1, 2025, in the role when the university released the NDA records on September 14, 2025.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Became NMSU's interim Vice President for Research on September 1, 2025.", "date": "2025-09-01" }, { "text": "Was in the role when the NDA records were released on September 14, 2025.", "date": "2025-09-14" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NMSU Interim VP for Research (from Sep 1 2025); in role when the NDA records were released Sep 14 2025", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO15", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Mexico State University (NMSU)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-mexico-state-university-nmsu" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP91", "type": "person", "name": "Bruce Krasnow", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/bruce-krasnow", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Communications Director", "org": "PJO13", "current": true } ], "stake": "Communications director of the New Mexico Economic Development Department, the MOU's signatory agency.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Communications Director, NM EDD", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO13", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Economic Development Dept (NMEDD)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-economic-development-dept-nmedd" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP92", "type": "person", "name": "Manny Barreras", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/manny-barreras", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "appointed-official", "roles": [ { "title": "Secretary and Chief Information Officer", "org": "PJO89", "current": true } ], "stake": "New Mexico's Information Technology Secretary and CIO, who signed the Speridian Technologies contracts that came before Apaluma's in the record's Project Velocity thread.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed the Speridian Technologies contracts that preceded Apaluma's, part of the Project Velocity thread." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NM DoIT Secretary/CIO; signed the pre-Apaluma Speridian contracts (Project Velocity thread)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO89", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Dept of Information Technology (DoIT)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-dept-of-information-technology-doit" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "signed-contracts-with", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO70", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Speridian Technologies", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/speridian-technologies" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP93", "type": "person", "name": "Rep. Mela Lara Cadena", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-mela-lara-cadena", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Representative", "org": "PJO52", "current": true } ], "stake": "State representative who said she and colleagues felt misled on HB 93 and who presented a data-center moratorium framework to an interim committee in August 2026.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Said she and colleagues felt \"misled\" on HB 93, as reported by a single outlet." }, { "text": "With Reps. Chávez and Rubio, presented a data-center moratorium framework for 2027 to the interim committee at NM Tech in Socorro on August 10–11, 2026.", "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "Called the county jobs report signed by Oracle's tax director, posted August 15, 2026, \"eight pages of propaganda.\"", "date": "2026-08-15" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Said she and colleagues felt 'misled' on HB 93 (single-outlet)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "felt-misled-on", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC78", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "HB 93 / ETA 'self-sourced microgrid' carve-out", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE120", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Interim committee hears the moratorium framework — Socorro (Aug 10–11 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-03-20", "2026-08-11a", "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP94", "type": "person", "name": "Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-antoinette-sedillo-lopez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Senator", "org": "PJO52", "current": true } ], "stake": "State senator who co-sponsored SB 235, the 2026 Microgrid Oversight Act.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-sponsored SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act, which the record describes as the corrective bill to HB 93." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "D-16; SB 235 co-sponsor", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "sponsored", "raw": "co-sponsored", "label": "Sponsored", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC115", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "SB 235 — Microgrid Oversight Act (the corrective bill)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP95", "type": "person", "name": "Rep. Joanne J. Ferrary", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-joanne-j-ferrary", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Representative", "org": "PJO52", "current": true } ], "stake": "State representative who co-sponsored SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act, and co-authored an op-ed on Project Jupiter's jobs, water and oversight.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-sponsored SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act." }, { "text": "Co-authored an op-ed in El Paso Matters on Project Jupiter's jobs, water and oversight.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "D-37; SB 235 co-sponsor", "sources": [ { "label": "El Paso Matters — opinion co-authored by Rep. Joanne Ferrary on Project Jupiter jobs, water, and oversight", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/16/project-jupiter-santa-teresa-data-center-state-representatives/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "sponsored", "raw": "co-sponsored", "label": "Sponsored", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC115", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "SB 235 — Microgrid Oversight Act (the corrective bill)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP96", "type": "person", "name": "Lt. Gov. Howie Morales", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/lt-gov-howie-morales", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "Lieutenant Governor and presiding officer of the Senate", "org": "PJO52", "current": true } ], "stake": "New Mexico's lieutenant governor, who as presiding officer of the Senate broke a 20–20 tie on the Muñoz amendment during the SB 235 debate, per a single outlet.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Broke a 20–20 tie on the Muñoz amendment during the 2026 SB 235 debate, as reported by a single outlet.", "date": "2026" }, { "text": "SB 235 passed the Senate and died in the House.", "date": "2026" } ], "aliases": [ "Howie Morales" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Broke a 20-20 tie on the Muñoz amendment during SB 235 (single-outlet)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "broke-amendment-tie-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE47", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "SB 235 passes Senate, dies in House (2026 session)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "presiding-officer-of", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-02-14", "2026-02-19" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP97", "type": "person", "name": "Sen. Harold Pope Jr.", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-harold-pope-jr", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Senator", "org": "PJO52", "current": true } ], "stake": "Albuquerque state senator who supported SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act, saying \"not all money is good money.\"", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Supported SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act." }, { "text": "Said \"not all money is good money,\" as reported by a single outlet." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "D-Albuquerque; SB 235 supporter: 'not all money is good money' (single-outlet)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supports", "raw": "supported", "label": "Supports", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC115", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "SB 235 — Microgrid Oversight Act (the corrective bill)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP98", "type": "person", "name": "Rep. Nathan Small", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-nathan-small", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "New Mexico State Representative (D-Las Cruces, District 36); chair of the House Appropriations & Finance Committee and the interim Legislative Finance Committee; occupation listed as \"Conservation\" on his official legislature page", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Representative (D-Las Cruces)", "org": "PJO52", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Chair", "org_label": "House Appropriations & Finance Committee", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Chair", "org_label": "Legislative Finance Committee (interim)", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Las Cruces state representative and House appropriations chair who supports Project Jupiter and whose endorsement ran in an Elevate Doña Ana ad campaign before the bond vote.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "stance": { "position": "supports", "src": [ 1, 2 ], "basis": "Co-authored a September 2025 op-ed supporting Project Jupiter; an ad campaign ran the endorsement before the bond vote." }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-authored a September 2025 op-ed supporting Project Jupiter.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025-09" }, { "text": "An Elevate Doña Ana ad campaign ran Small's endorsement of Project Jupiter before the $165 billion bond vote.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "Called the project the \"most impactful economic development yet.\"" }, { "text": "Chairs the House Appropriations & Finance Committee and the interim Legislative Finance Committee.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "His campaign received $10,000 from BorderPlex Digital Assets on August 22, 2025 and reported returning it on June 17, 2026.", "src": [ 4 ], "date": "2026-06-17" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "D-Las Cruces; Jupiter supporter ('most impactful economic development yet'); married to Xochitl Torres Small", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Legislature — official member page for Rep. Nathan P. Small (District 36, Doña Ana)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Members/Legislator?SponCode=HSMAL", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "El Paso Matters — opinion co-authored by Rep. Nathan Small supporting Project Jupiter (Sept 2025)", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/16/project-jupiter-santa-teresa-data-center-state-representatives/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Organ Mountain News (Source NM republication) — Elevate Doña Ana ad campaign ran Small's endorsement of Project Jupiter before the $165B bond vote", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/secretive-ad-campaign-support-project-jupiter-data-center-new-mexico/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Wikipedia — Nathan Small (NM House District 36); documents marriage to Xochitl Torres Small", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Small", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — Campaign Finance Information System, bulk contribution files 2025 and 2026 (downloaded Sept 27 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" }, { "predicate": "supports", "raw": "supports", "label": "Supports", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "spouse-of", "raw": "spouse-of", "label": "Married to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP99", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Xochitl Torres Small", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/xochitl-torres-small" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL205", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "BorderPlex's political gifts, reported twice: by its lobbyist and by the recipients", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP99", "type": "person", "name": "Xochitl Torres Small", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/xochitl-torres-small", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "U.S. Representative, New Mexico's 2nd congressional district", "current": false } ], "stake": "Former U.S. representative and USDA Deputy Secretary who appears in the record as the spouse of state Rep. Nathan Small.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Former U.S. representative for New Mexico's 2nd congressional district." }, { "text": "Served as USDA Deputy Secretary." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Ex-US Rep NM-2; former USDA Deputy Secretary; spouse of Rep. Nathan Small", "sources": [ { "label": "Wikipedia — Nathan Small, documenting his marriage to Xochitl Torres Small", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Small", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "spouse-of", "raw": "spouse-of", "label": "Married to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP98", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Nathan Small", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-nathan-small" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP100", "type": "person", "name": "Diego Mendoza-Moyers", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/diego-mendoza-moyers", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "journalist", "roles": [ { "title": "Environment and energy reporter", "org": "PJO91", "current": true } ], "stake": "El Paso Matters environment and energy reporter and the outlet's lead reporter on Project Jupiter.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Leads El Paso Matters' coverage of Project Jupiter." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "El Paso Matters environmental/energy reporter; lead EPM Jupiter reporter", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "reporter-for", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO91", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "El Paso Matters", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/el-paso-matters" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP101", "type": "person", "name": "Joshua Bowling", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/joshua-bowling", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "journalist", "roles": [ { "title": "Senior Reporter", "org": "PJO92", "current": true }, { "title": "Investigative reporter", "org_label": "Searchlight New Mexico", "current": false } ], "stake": "Source NM senior reporter covering the project's water, permits and influencer recruitment.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Covers the project's water, permits and influencer recruitment." }, { "text": "Previously an investigative reporter at Searchlight New Mexico." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Source NM Senior Reporter (ex-Searchlight investigative); water/permits/influencer-recruitment coverage", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "reporter-for", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO92", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Source New Mexico", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/source-new-mexico" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP102", "type": "person", "name": "Danielle Prokop", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/danielle-prokop", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "journalist", "roles": [ { "title": "Environment and local-government reporter", "org": "PJO92", "current": true } ], "stake": "Source NM environment and local-government reporter covering the project's air permits.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Covers air permits and a pipeline denial." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Source NM environment/local-government reporter; air permits, pipeline denial", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "reporter-for", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO92", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Source New Mexico", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/source-new-mexico" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP103", "type": "person", "name": "Ed Williams", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/ed-williams", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "journalist", "roles": [ { "title": "Investigative reporter", "org": "PJO93", "current": true } ], "stake": "Searchlight New Mexico investigative reporter whose dark-money expertise the record notes as relevant to Elevate New Mexico.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Brings dark-money reporting expertise the record notes as relevant to Elevate New Mexico." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Searchlight NM investigative reporter (dark-money expertise relevant to Elevate NM)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "reporter-for", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO93", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Searchlight New Mexico", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/searchlight-new-mexico" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP104", "type": "person", "name": "Daisy Maldonado", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/daisy-maldonado", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": "Former executive director of the Empowerment Congress of Doña Ana County (departed November 2025); Democratic nominee for Doña Ana County Commission District 1 (won June 2026 primary) and individual plaintiff in Project Jupiter litigation", "profile": { "category": "candidate", "roles": [ { "title": "Democratic nominee, County Commission District 1", "org_label": "Doña Ana County Commission", "start": "2026-06-02", "current": true, "src": [ 3, 9 ] }, { "title": "Executive Director", "org_label": "Empowerment Congress of Doña Ana County", "end": "2025-11", "current": false, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Community-radio host", "org": "PJO95", "current": true } ], "stake": "Democratic nominee for the Doña Ana County Commission District 1 seat, who entered the race over the IRB vote, and an individual plaintiff in Project Jupiter litigation.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "stance": { "position": "opposes", "src": [ 2 ], "basis": "Discussed her opposition to Project Jupiter in a May 2026 interview about her District 1 campaign." }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "Won the June 2, 2026 Democratic primary for County Commission District 1 over Angela Rowe Garcia, 2,013 to 1,736, a 277-vote margin.", "src": [ 3, 9 ], "date": "2026-06-02" }, { "text": "Launched the campaign over the commission's IRB vote.", "src": [ 5 ] }, { "text": "The Empowerment Congress withdrew from the Project Jupiter lawsuit after its parent organization ordered it to; Maldonado, who left the organization in November 2025, continues as an individual plaintiff.", "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "text": "On October 29, 2025, presented to the interim Water and Natural Resources Committee, describing the project as four data centers and a 700-megawatt gas plant.", "date": "2025-10-29" }, { "text": "Endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "text": "Faces Republican water-rights attorney Samantha Barncastle Salopek in the November 3, 2026 general election.", "src": [ 7 ], "date": "2026-11-03" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Former Empowerment Congress director, NMELC plaintiff, and community-radio host who launched her District 1 Commission campaign over the IRB vote and won the June 2026 Democratic primary. Her November opponent is water-rights attorney Samantha Barncastle Salopek.", "sources": [ { "label": "Santa Fe New Mexican — Empowerment Congress withdraws from Project Jupiter lawsuit; Maldonado continues as individual plaintiff, left org in November", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/a-plaintiff-withdrew-from-a-lawsuit-involving-project-jupiter-nobody-is-saying-why/article_556999b9-929c-4870-88ca-1030d59f0912.html", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Albuquerque Journal — Legal challenges to Project Jupiter funding; parent org CAA ordered withdrawal of unauthorized lawsuit, Maldonado no longer an employee", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/legal-challenges-to-project-jupiter-funding-meet-headwinds/2901165", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "KRWG Public Media — Maldonado discusses District 1 County Commission campaign and Project Jupiter opposition (May 2026)", "url": "https://www.krwg.org/krwg-news/2026-05-27/daisy-maldonado-discusses-campaign-for-dona-ana-county-commissioner-in-district-one", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Organ Mountain News — Maldonado wins Democratic primary for Doña Ana County Commission District 1, June 2026", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/daisy-maldonado-wins-dona-ana-county-commission-district-1-primary-2026/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Piñon Post — Sanders endorses Maldonado", "url": "https://pinonpost.com/bernie-blesses-anti-business-democrat-in-nm-race/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Organ Mountain News — Maldonado launches over the IRB vote", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/daisy-maldonado-county-commission-run/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Barncastle Salopek — CRWUA bio (Family Farm Alliance, water law)", "url": "https://crwua.org/say-hello-to-samantha-barncastle/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Barncastle Salopek — Ballotpedia", "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Samantha_Barncastle_Salopek", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "Barncastle Salopek — EBID appearance, Lower Rio Grande adjudication (PDF)", "url": "https://lrgadjudication.nmcourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2023/11/Entry-of-Appearance-and-Request-for-Notice-Samantha-R.-Barncastle-filed-2-9-17.pdf", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "Organ Mountain News — Maldonado wins the D1 Democratic primary (Jun 3 2026)", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/daisy-maldonado-wins-dona-ana-county-commission-district-1-primary-2026/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "host-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO95", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Las Cruces Community Radio", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/las-cruces-community-radio" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "plaintiff-with", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO16", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environmental Law Center (NMELC)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environmental-law-center-nmelc" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC119", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Electoral capture (Jupiter-connected figures seeking county offices)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "employed-by", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO100", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Community Action Agency of Southern NM (CAA-SNM)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/community-action-agency-of-southern-nm-caa-snm" }, { "predicate": "candidate-in", "raw": "candidate-in", "label": "Candidate in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE82", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Democratic primary (Jun 2 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "election-opponent-of", "raw": "opponent-of", "label": "Election opponent of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP167", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Samantha Barncastle Salopek", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/samantha-barncastle-salopek" }, { "predicate": "election-opponent-of", "raw": "seeks-seat-of", "label": "Election opponent of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP4", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/christopher-schaljo-hernandez" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-06-02", "2026-11-03" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP105", "type": "person", "name": "Nick Maxwell", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/nick-maxwell", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "advocate", "roles": [ { "title": "Pro se intervenor in the air-permit hearing", "org_label": "NMED proceeding AQB 26-57(P)", "start": "2026-07", "current": true } ], "stake": "Hobbs government watchdog and pro se intervenor in the air-permit hearing, who put the record of NMED's contract with its hearing-officer supplier into the hearing record.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Filed a 133-page response and supplemental motion on August 21, 2026 that put the NMED–ERG contract documents into the hearing record.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-21" }, { "text": "The filing separates what the documents establish from what they do not: it says adverse rulings are not bias and alleges no financial stake for the contractor in the permit.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-21" }, { "text": "Cited a 2021 Court of Appeals opinion in the WIPP permit case, where a hearing-officer contract challenge went unanswered because it was raised too late.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The hearing officer denied Maxwell's request to supplement technical testimony on August 20, 2026, and denied the motion to reconsider on August 21 without reasoning.", "date": "2026-08-21" }, { "text": "Pushed the Open Meetings Act violation analysis and shared emails with journalist Heath Haussamen." } ], "aliases": [ "Nicholas Maxwell" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Government watchdog (Hobbs NM); pushed the OMA-violation analysis, shared emails with Haussamen Pro se intervenor in the air-permit hearing, AQB 26-57(P) (Jul 2026 scheduling order). Appearing for himself in the air-permit proceeding, he filed the 133-page response and supplemental motion of August 21, 2026 that assembled the NMED–ERG contractual record from the procurement, the master contract, the 2025 amendment and the July 2026 correspondence — and that distinguished, carefully and repeatedly, between what those documents establish and what they do not.", "sources": [ { "label": "Maxwell's Response and Supplemental Motion concerning the ERG contractual relationship — AQB 26-57(P), Aug 21 2026 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/08/2026-08-21-AQB-26-57-Resp-Mot-Disqualify-Supplemental-Mot-wExhibits.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "exposes", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC10", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Governance opacity / transparency failure", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "source-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP43", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Heath Haussamen", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/heath-haussamen" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD75", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Maxwell's response and supplemental motion on the ERG relationship (Aug 21 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD79", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Order denying Maxwell's expedited motion to reconsider (Aug 21 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD80", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Order denying limited supplementation of direct technical testimony (Aug 20 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL194", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Cross-examination cannot supply what the rules require before the hearing", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "source-of", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL195", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The question has been put to a New Mexico court before, and it was never answered", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29", "2026-08-20b", "2026-08-21b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP106", "type": "person", "name": "Mahesh Thiagarajan", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/mahesh-thiagarajan", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Executive Vice President", "org": "PJO1", "current": true } ], "stake": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure executive vice president who fronted Oracle's June 2026 power and water messaging and presented the project's job numbers to county commissioners in July 2026.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Fronted Oracle's June 2026 messaging on an \"updated power plan\" and no use of public drinking water.", "date": "2026-06" }, { "text": "On July 28, 2026, told commissioners the project employed nearly 700 New Mexicans in ongoing construction, nearly 2,800 construction workers to date, with $734 million in contracts with New Mexico suppliers.", "date": "2026-07-28" }, { "text": "At the same meeting, committed to 100% carbon-free energy matching by 2031.", "date": "2026-07-28" }, { "text": "The developers' annual jobs report, due that week, was not available at the presentation.", "date": "2026-07-28" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "EVP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; fronted the June 2026 'updated power plan / no public drinking water' messaging", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE135", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle and STACK present job numbers to the county — the required report does not arrive (late Jul 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-28b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP109", "type": "person", "name": "Jose Ibarra", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jose-ibarra", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": "Consultant/community-outreach lead for BorderPlex Digital Assets (Project Jupiter developer); local businessman from Sunland Park/Chaparral; sought the 2026 Democratic nomination for Doña Ana County Commission District 3, though only Willie D. Madrid appears in the final NM SOS District 3 primary results", "profile": { "category": "candidate", "roles": [ { "title": "Consultant and community-outreach lead", "org": "PJO4", "current": true, "src": [ 0, 2 ] } ], "stake": "A BorderPlex Digital Assets consultant who backed the Project Jupiter IRB and briefly sought the District 3 County Commission seat before dropping from the ballot.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Spoke at the IRB public input as a \"Sunland Park resident\" without disclosing the BorderPlex Digital role, then joined chairman Lanham Napier at the podium as a company official.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Promised twice-weekly Sunland Park meetings ahead of the September 19, 2025 IRB hearing.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "Sought the 2026 Democratic nomination for County Commission District 3, the seat that oversees the project.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Does not appear in the final Secretary of State results for the District 3 primary, where only Willie D. Madrid advanced.", "src": [ 3 ], "date": "2026-06-02" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-28" }, "summary": "A BorderPlex Digital Assets consultant who backed the Project Jupiter IRB and briefly sought the District 3 Commission seat that oversees the project, before dropping from the ballot.", "sources": [ { "label": "Albuquerque Journal — Project Jupiter fight helps shape Doña Ana County commission election (Ibarra identified as BorderPlex Digital Assets consultant and District 3 Democratic candidate from Chaparral, single father of two)", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/how-project-jupiter-is-shaping-doa-ana-county-elections/3002483", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "haussamen.com — Column on Project Jupiter transparency: Ibarra spoke at public input for the IRB as a 'Sunland Park resident' without disclosing his BorderPlex Digital employment, then joined chairman Lanham Napier at the podium as a company official", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2025/09/03/developer-must-guarantee-project-jupiters-rosy-promises/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Albuquerque Journal — 'Confusing outreach marks rollout' (Ibarra described as a local businessman assisting BorderPlex Digital with community outreach, promising twice-weekly Sunland Park meetings ahead of the Sept. 19 IRB hearing)", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/business/project-jupiter-confusing-outreach-marks-rollout-of-proposed-data-center/363420", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — Doña Ana County 2026 primary results (District 3 Democratic race shows only Willie D. Madrid, 2,598 votes; Ibarra absent from final results)", "url": "https://electionresults.sos.nm.gov/resultsSW.aspx?type=CTYALL&map=CTY&cty=07&name=Do%C3%B1a+Ana", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "candidate-in", "raw": "candidate-in", "label": "Candidate in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE82", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Democratic primary (Jun 2 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC119", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Electoral capture (Jupiter-connected figures seeking county offices)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "consultant-for", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-06-02" ], "updated": "2026-09-28" }, { "id": "PJP110", "type": "person", "name": "Susie Kimble", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/susie-kimble", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "appointed-official", "roles": [ { "title": "County Commissioner, District 3", "org": "PJO9", "start": "2026-02", "current": true } ], "stake": "Appointed to the Doña Ana County Commission's District 3 seat in February 2026, after Shannon Reynolds resigned.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Appointed in February 2026 to the District 3 seat left open by Shannon Reynolds's resignation.", "date": "2026-02" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Appointed to the District 3 commission seat (Feb 2026) after Reynolds resigned", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "subject-of", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE81", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Susie Kimble appointed to District 3 seat (Feb 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO9", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "succeeded", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP34", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Shannon Reynolds", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/shannon-reynolds" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJP112", "type": "person", "name": "Rep. Christine Chandler", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-christine-chandler", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "State Representative (D-Los Alamos)", "org": "PJO52", "current": true }, { "title": "Chair, House Judiciary Committee", "org_label": "House Judiciary Committee", "current": true, "src": [ 1 ] } ], "stake": "Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, where the Microgrid Oversight Act (SB 235) died in February 2026 after passing the Senate 22–20.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Chairs the House Judiciary Committee.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "SB 235 passed the Senate 22–20 on February 14, 2026, was sent to House Judiciary on February 15, and was postponed indefinitely there; it died without a hearing.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "As committee chair, Chandler confirmed House Judiciary would not meet again before adjournment." }, { "text": "The Microgrid Oversight Act had passed the Senate 22–20 before it reached the committee." } ] }, "summary": "D-Los Alamos; chairs House Judiciary, the committee SB 235 was sent to on Feb 15 2026 after passing the Senate 22–20 on Feb 14; it was never heard and died when the session ended — the committee confirmed it would not reconvene before…", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Legislature — SB 235 (2026), Microgrid Oversight Act: status and actions", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=235&year=26", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NM Legislature — House Judiciary Committee members (chair: Christine Chandler)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Committee/Standing_Committee?CommitteeCode=HJC", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "presided-over-death-of", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE47", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "SB 235 passes Senate, dies in House (2026 session)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-02-14", "2026-02-19" ], "updated": "2026-02-19" }, { "id": "PJP114", "type": "person", "name": "Tim Kuester", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/tim-kuester", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, STACK Americas", "org": "PJO5", "current": true, "src": [ 1 ] } ], "stake": "STACK Americas' chief legal officer, who signed the county's memorandum of understanding for the project side on September 24, 2025, and the benefits agreement for all four Red Chiles entities.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed the executed county MOU for the project side on September 24, 2025, with the title Chief Legal & Administrative Officer.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-09-24" }, { "text": "The county manager executed the MOU after the county's vote." }, { "text": "STACK's team page lists Kuester as Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, STACK Americas.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Signed the November 2025 Community Benefits Agreement as Authorized Signatory for Red Chiles A, B, C and D.", "src": [ 2 ] } ] }, "summary": "Signed the county MOU for the Project side (9/24/2025) as Chief Legal & Administrative Officer — the MOU does not name the employer; STACK's own team page lists Kuester as Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, STACK Americas.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — executed Memorandum of Understanding with the project (mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Executed-Memorandum-of-Understanding-MOU.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "STACK Infrastructure — Meet the team (Tim Kuester, Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, STACK Americas)", "url": "https://www.stackinfra.com/about/meet-the-team/", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "Doña Ana County — Project Jupiter Community Benefits Agreement, executed (Nov 2025, PDF)", "url": "https://cms2.revize.com/revize/donaanacounty/Documents/About%20Us/Economic%20Development%20Projects/Community%20Benefits%20Agreement%20(CBA)%20Executed.pdf?t=202606181101020&t=202606181101020", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE95", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "County MOU executed — post-vote, by the county manager (Sep 22/24 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "authorized-signatory-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO116", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Red Chiles A, B, C & D, LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/red-chiles-a-b-c-d-llc" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO5", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "STACK Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stack-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "cites", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJN1", "target_type": "narrative", "target_name": "Who lent Project Jupiter $165 billion?", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/narratives/who-lent-project-jupiter-165-billion" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD83", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "IRB Series 2025A, 2025B and 2025C — executed & recorded bond packages (Nov 12 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP115", "type": "person", "name": "Lane Gaddy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/lane-gaddy", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Managing Partner", "org": "PJO103", "current": true }, { "title": "President", "org_label": "W. Silver Recycling", "current": true }, { "title": "Board member", "org": "PJO73", "current": true } ], "stake": "Registered Santa Teresa Capital, LLC, the entity whose water rights the campus buys, and is identified in the record as its managing partner.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Registered Santa Teresa Capital, LLC in 2017, per the Santa Fe New Mexican; the registration appears in public OSE filings.", "date": "2017" }, { "text": "Secretary of State records list Gaddy as sole member and manager of Santa Teresa Capital." }, { "text": "Copied as managing partner on Santa Teresa Capital's October 21, 2025 emergency well request, signed by agent Gilbert G. Mesa.", "date": "2025-10-21" }, { "text": "El Paso Inc. reported Gaddy's purchase of 2,200 acres in Santa Teresa.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Registered Santa Teresa Capital, LLC in 2017 (per Santa Fe New Mexican; appears in public OSE filings).", "sources": [ { "label": "El Paso Inc. — \"Gaddy buys 2,200 acres in Santa Teresa\"", "url": "https://www.elpasoinc.com/news/local_news/gaddy-buys-acres-in-santa-teresa/article_96f646f6-f3df-11e7-9cf7-a75e03533306.html", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "El Paso Inc. — Q&A profile of Lane Gaddy, El Paso entrepreneur and businessman", "url": "https://www.elpasoinc.com/news/q_and_a/lane-gaddy-el-paso-entrepreneur-businessman/article_66d8e9a4-3c86-11e6-9eb5-3b0daa97ceae.html", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "registered", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO103", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Santa Teresa Capital, LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/santa-teresa-capital-llc" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP116", "type": "person", "name": "Sen. Martin Heinrich", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-martin-heinrich", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "U.S. Senator (D-NM), senior; Ranking Member of Senate Energy & Natural Resources and co-chair of the Senate AI Caucus — the NM federal official closest to the data-center fight, but he has not named Project Jupiter.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "U.S. Senator for New Mexico", "start": "2013", "current": true, "src": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Ranking Member, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee", "current": true, "src": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Co-chair, Senate AI Caucus", "current": true, "src": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "U.S. Representative (NM-1)", "current": false }, { "title": "Albuquerque city councilor", "current": false } ], "stake": "New Mexico's senior U.S. senator, ranking member of Senate Energy and Natural Resources and co-chair of the Senate AI Caucus, who has criticized AI data-center developers but has not named Project Jupiter.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "In a June 22, 2026 interview, faulted AI data-center developers for “a healthy dose of arrogance” and late, thin community engagement.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-06-22" }, { "text": "In the same interview, named emissions, water use and rising electricity prices as legitimate concerns, without naming Project Jupiter.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The interview was timed to the SunZia transmission line going fully online.", "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "text": "No floor statement, press release or letter from the senator's office naming Project Jupiter is in the public record." }, { "text": "Donors include renewable developers, among them Pattern Energy, NextEra, LS Power and Xcel." } ] }, "summary": "Senior U.S. Senator for New Mexico (since 2013), engineer by training, former Albuquerque city councilor and NM-1 congressman. As ENR Ranking Member and co-chair of the Senate AI Caucus he holds the federal energy-and-AI portfolio most relevant to Project Jupiter. In a June 22, 2026 Latitude Media interview timed to his SunZia transmission line going fully online, he faulted AI data-center developers for “a healthy dose of arrogance” and late, thin community engagement — naming emissions, water use, and rising electricity prices as legitimate concerns — but did not name Jupiter. No floor statement, press release, or letter from his office naming Project Jupiter is in the public record. His donors include renewable developers (Pattern Energy, NextEra, LS Power, Xcel) that compete with gas-powered AI campuses for grid access.", "sources": [ { "label": "Latitude Media — “Sen. Heinrich on what data centers can learn from SunZia” (Jun 22 2026)", "url": "https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/sen-heinrich-on-what-data-centers-can-learn-from-sunzia/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Senate ENR — SunZia goes fully online after ~two decades of Heinrich advocacy", "url": "https://www.energy.senate.gov/2026/6/after-nearly-two-decades-of-heinrich-s-advocacy-sunzia-transmission-project-is-going-fully-online", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "heinrich.senate.gov — sworn in for third term (committee/caucus roles)", "url": "https://www.heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/heinrich-sworn-in-for-third-term-as-us-senator-for-new-mexico", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Organ Mountain News — Project Jupiter water use / county resolution (local context)", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/project-jupiter-water-use-county-resolution-dona-ana/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "commented-on", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "delegation-partner-of", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP117", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Sen. Ben Ray Luján", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-ben-ray-lujan" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP117", "type": "person", "name": "Sen. Ben Ray Luján", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-ben-ray-lujan", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "U.S. Senator (D-NM), junior; former NM Public Regulation Commission chairman who wrote the state's renewable portfolio standard — and is silent on Project Jupiter in the public record.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "U.S. Senator for New Mexico", "start": "2021", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Member, Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Chairman, New Mexico Public Regulation Commission", "current": false, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "New Mexico's junior U.S. senator and a former chairman of the state Public Regulation Commission, with no statement, letter or floor speech naming Project Jupiter in the public record.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "As chairman of the Public Regulation Commission, built New Mexico's renewable portfolio standard.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The record describes the HB 93 microgrid exemption as undercutting that renewable portfolio standard." }, { "text": "A permitting-reform advocate who has urged restoring cancelled transmission to power data centers.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Up for reelection in 2026 with no Republican challenger.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "Has made no statement, letter or floor speech naming Project Jupiter." } ] }, "summary": "Junior U.S. Senator for New Mexico (since 2021), former chairman of the NM Public Regulation Commission where he built the state's renewable portfolio standard — the very policy the HB 93 microgrid exemption undercuts. Sits on Commerce, Science & Transportation. A permitting-reform advocate who has urged restoring cancelled transmission to power data centers, but has made no statement, letter, or floor speech naming Project Jupiter. Up for reelection in 2026 with no Republican challenger and only a Democratic primary opponent — a dynamic that could pull him toward the issue's left flank. His PRC background makes the silence on the microgrid loophole especially notable.", "sources": [ { "label": "lujan.senate.gov — biography, committees, PRC background", "url": "https://www.lujan.senate.gov/about/", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Broadband Breakfast — Luján on federal permitting reform for AI/data centers (Feb 4 2026)", "url": "https://broadbandbreakfast.com/sen-ben-ray-lujan-expressed-frustration-dedication-to-federal-permitting-reform/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "KOB — No Republican will challenge Luján for reelection (2026)", "url": "https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/no-republican-will-challenge-senator-ben-ray-lujan-for-reelection/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "delegation-partner-of", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP116", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Sen. Martin Heinrich", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-martin-heinrich" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "silent-on", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP118", "type": "person", "name": "Sen. Carrie Hamblen", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-carrie-hamblen", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "NM State Senator (D-Las Cruces); chair of the Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee. One of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs pressing Project Jupiter for transparency.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "New Mexico State Senator (D-Las Cruces)", "org": "PJO52", "current": true }, { "title": "Chair, Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee", "current": true } ], "stake": "A Las Cruces state senator and chair of Senate Tax, Business and Transportation, one of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs who took up Project Jupiter at the state level.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Attended the July 3, 2026 Las Cruces community meeting on Project Jupiter held by state senators.", "date": "2026-07-03" }, { "text": "Convened a formal Senate listening session on Project Jupiter on August 11, 2026, at NMSU's Corbett Center Ballroom.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "One of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs pressing for transparency on the deal." } ] }, "summary": "New Mexico State Senator for Las Cruces and chair of Senate Tax, Business and Transportation. One of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs who took up Project Jupiter at the state level — attending the July 3, 2026 Las Cruces community meeting and convening a formal August 11, 2026 listening session at NMSU's Corbett Center Ballroom, demanding transparency on the deal.", "sources": [ { "label": "CBS4 Local — Lawmakers to hear Las Cruces concerns on Project Jupiter data centers", "url": "https://cbs4local.com/newsletter-daily/lawmakers-to-hear-las-cruces-concerns-on-project-jupiter-data-centers", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "attended", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE102", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "State senators' Las Cruces community meeting on Project Jupiter (Jul 3, 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "convened", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE103", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Senate listening session on Project Jupiter — Corbett Center, NMSU (Aug 11, 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC122", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "NM Senate committee-chair scrutiny (the state legislative front)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-11" ], "updated": "2026-08-11" }, { "id": "PJP119", "type": "person", "name": "Sen. Joseph Cervantes", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-joseph-cervantes", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "NM State Senator (D-Las Cruces); chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. One of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs pressing Project Jupiter for transparency.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "New Mexico State Senator (D-Las Cruces)", "org": "PJO52", "current": true }, { "title": "Chair, Senate Judiciary Committee", "current": true } ], "stake": "A Las Cruces state senator and chair of Senate Judiciary, one of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs who took up Project Jupiter at the state level.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Attended the July 3, 2026 Las Cruces community meeting on Project Jupiter held by state senators.", "date": "2026-07-03" }, { "text": "Convened a formal Senate listening session on Project Jupiter on August 11, 2026, at NMSU's Corbett Center Ballroom.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "One of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs pressing for transparency on the deal." } ] }, "summary": "New Mexico State Senator for Las Cruces and chair of Senate Judiciary. One of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs who took up Project Jupiter at the state level — attending the July 3, 2026 Las Cruces community meeting and convening a formal August 11, 2026 listening session at NMSU's Corbett Center Ballroom, demanding transparency on the deal.", "sources": [ { "label": "CBS4 Local — Lawmakers to hear Las Cruces concerns on Project Jupiter data centers", "url": "https://cbs4local.com/newsletter-daily/lawmakers-to-hear-las-cruces-concerns-on-project-jupiter-data-centers", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "attended", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE102", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "State senators' Las Cruces community meeting on Project Jupiter (Jul 3, 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "convened", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE103", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Senate listening session on Project Jupiter — Corbett Center, NMSU (Aug 11, 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC122", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "NM Senate committee-chair scrutiny (the state legislative front)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-11" ], "updated": "2026-08-11" }, { "id": "PJP120", "type": "person", "name": "Sen. Bill Soules", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-bill-soules", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "NM State Senator (D-Las Cruces); chair of the Senate Education Committee. One of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs pressing Project Jupiter for transparency.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "New Mexico State Senator (D-Las Cruces)", "org": "PJO52", "current": true }, { "title": "Chair, Senate Education Committee", "current": true } ], "stake": "A Las Cruces state senator and chair of Senate Education, one of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs who took up Project Jupiter at the state level.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Attended the July 3, 2026 Las Cruces community meeting on Project Jupiter held by state senators.", "date": "2026-07-03" }, { "text": "Convened a formal Senate listening session on Project Jupiter on August 11, 2026, at NMSU's Corbett Center Ballroom.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "One of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs pressing for transparency on the deal." } ] }, "summary": "New Mexico State Senator for Las Cruces and chair of Senate Education. One of four Doña Ana state-senate committee chairs who took up Project Jupiter at the state level — attending the July 3, 2026 Las Cruces community meeting and convening a formal August 11, 2026 listening session at NMSU's Corbett Center Ballroom, demanding transparency on the deal.", "sources": [ { "label": "CBS4 Local — Lawmakers to hear Las Cruces concerns on Project Jupiter data centers", "url": "https://cbs4local.com/newsletter-daily/lawmakers-to-hear-las-cruces-concerns-on-project-jupiter-data-centers", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "attended", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE102", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "State senators' Las Cruces community meeting on Project Jupiter (Jul 3, 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "convened", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE103", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Senate listening session on Project Jupiter — Corbett Center, NMSU (Aug 11, 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC122", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "NM Senate committee-chair scrutiny (the state legislative front)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-11" ], "updated": "2026-08-11" }, { "id": "PJP121", "type": "person", "name": "Vanessa Alarid", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/vanessa-alarid", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": "Owner and sole lobbyist, Alarid Consulting; lists BorderPlex Digital Assets among current NM lobbying clients; joined the MVEDA board April 2026; spouse of Sen. Antonio 'Moe' Maestas (D-Albuquerque).", "profile": { "category": "lobbyist", "roles": [ { "title": "Owner and sole lobbyist", "org_label": "Alarid Consulting", "current": true }, { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO4", "start": "2025-01-20", "current": true, "src": [ 4, 7 ] }, { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO66", "start": "2026-01-01", "current": true, "src": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "Board member", "org": "PJO50", "start": "2026-04", "current": true } ], "stake": "A registered lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets and for Yucca Growth Infrastructure, the air-permit applicant, who joined the board of MVEDA, the regional agency that helped land the project, in April 2026.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The Secretary of State's registry lists Alarid as BorderPlex Digital Assets' lobbyist from January 20, 2025, eight months before the county's bond vote.", "src": [ 4, 7 ], "date": "2025-01-20" }, { "text": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure's 2026 roster lists Alarid from January 1, 2026, one of five lobbyists on it and one of two marked “Authorized: Yes”; the other is Roberto A. Ramirez.", "src": [ 7 ], "date": "2026-01-01" }, { "text": "Named, with Jennifer Bradfute, as a lobbyist for Yucca Growth Infrastructure in a September 21, 2026 email to the Legislative Finance Committee reported by The New Mexican.", "src": [ 5 ], "date": "2026-09-21" }, { "text": "Joined the MVEDA board in April 2026, during the air-permit comment period.", "date": "2026-04" }, { "text": "The 2026 client list runs to more than twenty entities, among them Chevron USA and Hilcorp San Juan.", "src": [ 7 ] }, { "text": "A Bernalillo County ethics matter concerned a $5,000 in-kind contribution from Alarid to Commissioner Charlene Pyskoty, who later voted to appoint Moe Maestas to the Senate.", "src": [ 3 ] } ] }, "summary": "CORRECTION (Jul 8, 2026): An earlier version of this entry connected an attorney, as a lobbying client of Ms. Alarid, to the 2026 governor's race. That connection rested on a client roster the Watch could not independently verify; the named party disputes it. The connection has been removed. — A New Mexico lobbyist whose client roster lists BorderPlex Digital Assets — and who, in April 2026 during the air-permit comment period, joined the board of MVEDA, the regional agency that helped land Project Jupiter in Santa Teresa. Her registration date for BorderPlex, which this record had flagged as unconfirmed: Searchlight New Mexico's September 2026 timeline of the project dates it to January 20, 2025 — eight months before the county's bond vote, and a month before the Governor signed the memorandum of understanding. CONFIRMED (Sept 28 2026) from the Secretary of State's registry itself: BorderPlex Digital Assets lists her as its lobbyist from January 20, 2025. — UPDATE (Sept 27 2026): The New Mexican reports, from a lobbyist's September 21 email to the Legislative Finance Committee, that Ms. Alarid is also registered for Yucca Growth Infrastructure, the air-permit applicant, alongside Jennifer Bradfute. The registry confirms it: Yucca Growth Infrastructure's 2026 roster lists her from January 1, 2026, one of five lobbyists on it and one of two marked Authorized: Yes — the other is Roberto A. Ramirez. Her 2026 client list runs to more than twenty entities, among them Chevron USA and Hilcorp San Juan.", "sources": [ { "label": "Vanessa Alarid — LinkedIn (client roster)", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-alarid-2199703", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "Transparency USA — Alarid contributions", "url": "https://www.transparencyusa.org/nm/contributor/vanessa-alarid", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "The Candle — NMED's undisclosed Jupiter consultant/lobbyist contracts", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/at-recent-wqcc-meetings-nmed-did-not-disclose-its-ai-data-contracts-involving-project-jupiter-consultant-and-lobbyists/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "LA Daily Post — Bernalillo ethics case (Alarid/Maestas/Pyskoty)", "url": "https://ladailypost.com/ringside-seat-board-opts-for-secrecy-in-political-misconduct-case-in-new-mexicos-most-populous-county/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — Timeline: The evolution of Project Jupiter (Sept 18 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/timeline-the-evolution-of-project-jupiter/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — A ‘who’s who of power brokers in New Mexico’ lobbying for Project Jupiter (Sept 25 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/a-whos-who-of-power-brokers-in-new-mexico-lobbying-for-project-jupiter/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — Campaign Finance Information System, public lobbyist and lobbyist-employer search, 2026 filing year (queried Sept 27 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — lobbyist registrations and employer filings, 2026 (queried Sept 28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO50", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Mesilla Valley Economic Development Association (MVEDA)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/mesilla-valley-economic-development-association-mveda" }, { "predicate": "spouse-of", "raw": "spouse-of", "label": "Married to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP122", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Sen. Antonio 'Moe' Maestas", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-antonio-moe-maestas" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI9", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Lobbyist on both sides — Vanessa Alarid (BorderPlex + MVEDA)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#lobbyist-on-both-sides-vanessa-alarid-borderplex-mveda" }, { "predicate": "contributes-to", "raw": "contributed-to", "label": "Contributed to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP22", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Michael Padilla", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/michael-padilla" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "related-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL182", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "When BorderPlex was formed is in dispute, and this record is not resolving it", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO66", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL205", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "BorderPlex's political gifts, reported twice: by its lobbyist and by the recipients", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-21" }, { "id": "PJP122", "type": "person", "name": "Sen. Antonio 'Moe' Maestas", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-antonio-moe-maestas", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "New Mexico State Senator (D-Albuquerque, appointed Jan 2023); spouse of BorderPlex lobbyist Vanessa Alarid.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "New Mexico State Senator (D-Albuquerque)", "org": "PJO52", "start": "2023-01", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "An Albuquerque state senator, appointed in January 2023, who is married to Vanessa Alarid, a registered lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Appointed to the state Senate in January 2023.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2023-01" }, { "text": "The appointment drew scrutiny in a Bernalillo County ethics board matter over Alarid's $5,000 in-kind contribution to Commissioner Charlene Pyskoty, who voted to appoint Maestas.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "State filings show a $10,000 contribution from BorderPlex Digital Assets to Antonio “Moe” Maestas dated September 25, 2025; the record draws no inference from its timing.", "date": "2025-09-25" } ], "aliases": [ "Moe Maestas", "Antonio Maestas" ] }, "summary": "An Albuquerque state senator married to Vanessa Alarid, the lobbyist whose clients include BorderPlex Digital Assets — placing a sitting legislator one household removed from the developer's lobbying operation.", "sources": [ { "label": "Moe Maestas — Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Maestas", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "LA Daily Post — Bernalillo ethics case", "url": "https://ladailypost.com/ringside-seat-board-opts-for-secrecy-in-political-misconduct-case-in-new-mexicos-most-populous-county/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "spouse-of", "raw": "spouse-of", "label": "Married to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP121", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Vanessa Alarid", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/vanessa-alarid" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL203", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "What the project's companies gave, in the state's own filings (2025–26)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-14c" ], "updated": "2026-09-14" }, { "id": "PJP124", "type": "person", "name": "Carlos Parra", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/carlos-parra", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": "Marketing Director, MVEDA; author of the pro-Project Jupiter coverage on nmborderplex.com.", "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "Marketing Director", "org": "PJO50", "current": true } ], "stake": "MVEDA's marketing director and the author of the pro-Project Jupiter articles on the NM Borderplex site.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Wrote pro-Project Jupiter articles on the NM Borderplex site through April 2026.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "MVEDA, the quasi-public economic-development alliance, provided site-selection and market analysis to land the project in Santa Teresa." } ] }, "summary": "MVEDA's marketing director and the byline behind the pro-Project Jupiter coverage on the NM Borderplex site — the promotional voice of the agency that helped site the project.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Borderplex — MVEDA news", "url": "https://www.nmborderplex.com/news/", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "Global Trade — Doña Ana approves $165B IRB", "url": "https://www.globaltrademag.com/dona-ana-county-approves-165-billion-irb-for-project-jupiter-a-transformative-leap-for-the-new-mexico-borderplex/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO50", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Mesilla Valley Economic Development Association (MVEDA)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/mesilla-valley-economic-development-association-mveda" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP125", "type": "person", "name": "Deb Haaland", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/deb-haaland", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Democratic nominee for Governor of New Mexico, 2026; former U.S. Interior Secretary and U.S. Representative. On September 17, 2026 proposed a first-day executive order pausing new large-scale data centers statewide.", "profile": { "category": "candidate", "roles": [ { "title": "Democratic nominee for Governor of New Mexico", "start": "2026", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "U.S. Secretary of the Interior", "current": false }, { "title": "U.S. Representative", "current": false } ], "stake": "The 2026 Democratic nominee for governor of New Mexico, who has proposed a first-day executive order pausing new large-scale data centers statewide while the Legislature writes rules.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "On September 17, 2026, said that if elected she would sign a first-day executive order pausing new large-scale data-center proposals statewide, would support a statutory moratorium and would not stop counties from adopting their own.", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2026-09-17" }, { "text": "Her eight proposed guardrails include no non-disclosure agreements, developer-built renewable generation, closed-loop cooling, hiring New Mexicans for union jobs, compliance with the state's clean-energy law and decommissioning bonds.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "The New Mexican reported at least $87,200 in data-center-related contributions to her campaign; asked about it, she said, “I believe that I can walk and chew gum at the same time.”", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "text": "State filings show fifteen contributions of $1,000 or more from Oracle, STACK Infrastructure and the construction contractor Clayco and their executives, $112,200 in all, between August 24 and September 7, 2026.", "src": [ 5 ], "date": "2026-08-24" }, { "text": "Endorsed Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, who twice denied the pipeline's state-land crossings, for lieutenant governor; Garcia Richard won the Democratic vote 53–46 on July 30, 2026.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026-07-30" } ] }, "summary": "The 2026 Democratic nominee for governor. On September 17 she said that if elected she would sign an executive order on her first day pausing new large-scale data center proposals statewide while the Legislature writes rules, would support a statutory moratorium, and would not stop counties from adopting their own. Her eight proposed guardrails include no non-disclosure agreements, developers building their own renewable generation, closed-loop cooling, hiring New Mexicans for union jobs, compliance with the state's clean-energy law, and decommissioning bonds. The New Mexican reported that her campaign received at least $87,200 in data-center-related contributions in the latest reporting period, including from Oracle and executives tied to Project Jupiter; asked about it, she said, \"I believe that I can walk and chew gum at the same time.\" The state's filings show more than was reported: fifteen contributions of $1,000 or more from Oracle, STACK Infrastructure and the construction contractor Clayco and their executives, $112,200 in all, between August 24 and September 7 — including $12,400 from Oracle America and $12,400 each from two Oracle executives listed in the filings as CEO (PJCL204). Endorsed Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, who twice refused the pipeline's state-land crossings, for lieutenant governor.", "sources": [ { "label": "NBC News — Haaland wins NM Dem gubernatorial primary", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/new-mexico-democratic-governor-primary-election-winner-haaland-rcna347474", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "KUNM — Lt. 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Nicole Chavez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-nicole-chavez", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": "New Mexico State Representative (R — House District 31, Bernalillo County; first elected 2024). Sits on the House Economic & Rural Development & Policy Committee and (advisory) House Water & Natural Resources — the two panels that would hear data-center incentive and moratorium legislation.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "New Mexico State Representative (R)", "org": "PJO52", "start": "2025-01", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Member, House Economic & Rural Development & Policy Committee", "current": true }, { "title": "Advisory member, House Water & Natural Resources Committee", "current": true } ], "stake": "An Albuquerque state representative with no established tie to Project Jupiter, who sits on the two House committees that would hear data-center incentive and moratorium legislation.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "First elected in 2024; the first term began in January 2025.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Holds the only Republican-held House seat inside Albuquerque." }, { "text": "No documented financial or lobbying tie to Alarid, BorderPlex or Project Jupiter has been found." }, { "text": "Chavez's committee seats make the vote relevant if the 2027 data-center moratorium bills move.", "src": [ 1 ] } ] }, "summary": "The lone Republican-held House seat inside Albuquerque. No established tie to Project Jupiter or BorderPlex — but her seats on the House Economic & Rural Development and (advisory) Water & Natural Resources committees make her a relevant vote if the 2027 data-center moratorium bills move.", "sources": [ { "label": "Nicole Chavez — Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Chavez_(politician)", "kind": "other" }, { "label": "Yahoo/AP — NM lawmakers announce proposed statewide data-center moratorium", "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/mexico-lawmakers-announce-proposed-statewide-171912356.html", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Transparency USA — Nicole Chavez candidate record", "url": "https://www.transparencyusa.org/nm/candidate/nicole-chavez?filer=nicole-chavez-for-new-mexico-476366", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL118", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Chavez sits on both House committees that would hear data-center legislation", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP127", "type": "person", "name": "Mark Vedral", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/mark-vedral", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Senior Director – Land/Projects, Energy Transfer (Houston); signed the April 2026 reconsideration requests for the pipeline's state-land crossings and received the Commissioner's July 14 denial.", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Senior Director – Land/Projects", "org": "PJO8", "current": true } ], "stake": "Energy Transfer's senior director for land and projects, who asked the State Land Office to reconsider its denial of the Green Chile pipeline's state-trust crossings and received the second denial.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Wrote the April 2, 2026 reconsideration letters on behalf of ET Gathering & Processing and Transwestern, two functionally identical requests.", "date": "2026-04-02" }, { "text": "Named addressee of the Land Commissioner's July 14, 2026 letter denying reconsideration, the office's second denial.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-14" } ] }, "summary": "Energy Transfer's land man on the Green Chile pipeline — he asked the State Land Office to reconsider its denial of the state-trust crossings, in two functionally identical letters, and received the Commissioner's second no.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMSLO — reconsideration denial letter (Jul 14 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.nmstatelands.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-14-Letter-re-Informal-Request-for-Reconsideration_Final.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE104", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "State Land Office denies reconsideration — second denial (Jul 14 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO8", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Energy Transfer (Transwestern)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/energy-transfer-transwestern" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-14" ], "updated": "2026-07-14" }, { "id": "PJP128", "type": "person", "name": "Max Shepherd", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/max-shepherd", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Hearing Officer for the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing (docket AQB 26-57(P)); appointed July 2, 2026 (final decision authority was delegated separately, to Deputy Cabinet Secretary John Rhoderick); signed the scheduling order setting the Oct 19 hearing.", "profile": { "category": "judge-or-hearing-officer", "roles": [ { "title": "Hearing Officer", "org_label": "NMED air-permit docket AQB 26-57(P)", "start": "2026-07-02", "end": "2026-08-22", "current": false, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The hearing officer appointed on July 2, 2026 to run the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing — final decision authority went to Deputy Cabinet Secretary John Rhoderick — who recused on August 22, 2026 without stating a reason.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Engaged through Eastern Research Group, the Department's technical contractor, under a 2025 amendment that made ERG the supplier of NMED hearing officers.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "text": "On July 7, 2026, wrote that he could not perform any hearing-officer duties until ERG completed his individual service contract.", "src": [ 4 ], "date": "2026-07-07" }, { "text": "Signed the July 16, 2026 scheduling order setting an October 19 hearing, with three-minute public comments and everything on the record.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-16" }, { "text": "Said on July 27 the October date would stand; the written order of July 29 moved the hearing to September 14, at the applicant's request.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026-07-29" }, { "text": "Withdrew an August 5 show-cause order on fuel supply as “inadvisably filed,” then on August 12 denied discovery after earlier saying it would be allowed.", "src": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "text": "Denied a motion for a hearing on his own disqualification and recused on August 22, 2026; no one has made a finding of bias against him, and this record makes none.", "date": "2026-08-22" } ] }, "summary": "The man who will run the room in Sunland Park — appointed hearing officer on July 2 with delegated authority over the final permit decision, he set the October 19 hearing and its rules: testimony deadlines, three-minute public comments, everything on the record. He was engaged through Eastern Research Group, the Department's technical contractor, under a 2025 amendment that made ERG the supplier of NMED hearing officers; in July 2026 he told the Department he could not perform any duties until ERG completed his individual service contract. He reversed himself on the hearing date and on discovery, denied a motion for a hearing on his own disqualification, and recused himself on August 22, 2026 without stating a reason. No finding of bias has been made against him by anyone, and this record makes none.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED scheduling order — AQB 26-57(P) (Jul 16 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-16-AQB-26-57-Scheduling-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (Jul 29 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NMED — Order on NEE motion (Aug 5 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-04-AQB-26-57-Order-Briefing-Dismissal-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NMED — Sua Sponte Order (Aug 10 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-10-AQB-26-57-Sua-Sponte-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Maxwell's Response and Supplemental Motion concerning the ERG contractual relationship — AQB 26-57(P), Aug 21 2026 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/08/2026-08-21-AQB-26-57-Resp-Mot-Disqualify-Supplemental-Mot-wExhibits.pdf", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "NMED docket AQB 26-57 — Notice of Docketing, Appointment of Hearing Officer, and Delegation of Final Decision Authority (Jul 2 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-02-AQB-26-57-Ntc-of-Dckt-Appt-of-HO-Del-of-Auth-filed-1.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "presides-over", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE112", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The hearing is moved up five weeks — at the applicant's request (Jul 27–29 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE113", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Show-cause order: can the campus be built without the pipeline? (Aug 5 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE114", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Show-cause withdrawn — the fuel question goes to the hearing (Aug 9–10 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE131", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The hearing officer denies discovery — his third reversal (Aug 12 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE136", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The hearing officer recuses himself (Aug 22 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD66", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "The recusal order (Aug 22 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD76", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "The order denying all discovery (Aug 12 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL194", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Cross-examination cannot supply what the rules require before the hearing", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD79", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Order denying Maxwell's expedited motion to reconsider (Aug 21 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD80", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Order denying limited supplementation of direct technical testimony (Aug 20 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL195", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The question has been put to a New Mexico court before, and it was never answered", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL196", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The standard the bias argument has to meet, and it is not a low one", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL199", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "NMED's answer to the bias motion: no evidence, a presumption of integrity, and articles that are hearsay", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-02", "2026-07-07", "2026-07-29", "2026-08-05", "2026-08-10", "2026-08-10c", "2026-08-12", "2026-08-19", "2026-08-20b", "2026-08-21", "2026-08-21b", "2026-08-22", "2026-09-18b" ], "updated": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": "PJP129", "type": "person", "name": "Raúl Torrez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/raul-torrez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "New Mexico Attorney General; his office opened the July 2026 investigation into fraudulent public comments on the Project Jupiter air permit.", "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "Attorney General of New Mexico", "org": "PJO104", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "New Mexico's Attorney General, whose office opened a July 2026 investigation into fraudulent public comments on the air permit and in September 2026 supported both emergency petitions against two state agencies.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "In July 2026 the Attorney General's office opened an investigation into alleged fraudulent public comments on the Project Jupiter air permit.", "src": [ 0, 1 ], "date": "2026-07" }, { "text": "Torrez: “If individuals or organizations attempted to manipulate the public comment process through fraudulent submissions, we will investigate those actions thoroughly and hold responsible parties accountable.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "On August 24, 2026, Rep. Melanie Stansbury wrote to the Attorney General, among other officials, asking for a public accounting of the project's water.", "date": "2026-08-24" }, { "text": "On September 2, 2026, the Department of Justice filed responses supporting both emergency petitions, arguing NMED violated the air petitioner's due-process rights and that § 72-12-22 does not reach a change of purpose and place.", "date": "2026-09-02" } ] }, "summary": "The Attorney General whose office opened the fraud investigation: 'If individuals or organizations attempted to manipulate the public comment process through fraudulent submissions, we will investigate those actions thoroughly and hold responsible parties accountable.'", "sources": [ { "label": "Source NM — AG to investigate alleged fraudulent letters", "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/07/09/new-mexico-ag-to-investigate-alleged-fraudulent-letters-supporting-project-jupiter-data-center/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NMDOJ letter to NMED (Jul 9 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://kvia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-09-NMDOJ-Ltr-to-NMED-JKenney-re-YGI-.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO104", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Department of Justice", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-department-of-justice" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE140", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Attorney General takes the petitioners' side against two state agencies (Sept 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-24b", "2026-09-02b" ], "updated": "2026-09-02" }, { "id": "PJP130", "type": "person", "name": "Bruce Wetherbee", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/bruce-wetherbee", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Editor of The Candle (investigative NM outlet); pro se intervenor in the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing (AQB 26-57(P)).", "profile": { "category": "journalist", "roles": [ { "title": "Editor", "org": "PJO107", "current": true, "src": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Pro se intervenor", "org_label": "NMED air-permit hearing, AQB 26-57(P)", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Editor of The Candle, an investigative New Mexico outlet, who entered the air-permit hearing as a pro se intervenor.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Listed as a pro se intervenor on the party list of the July 16, 2026 scheduling order in the air-permit docket.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-16" }, { "text": "Appears in the hearing docket alongside environmental groups and residents." } ] }, "summary": "The Candle's editor didn't just cover the permit fight — he entered it, appearing as a pro se intervenor in the hearing docket alongside environmental groups and residents.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED scheduling order — party list (Jul 16 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-16-AQB-26-57-Scheduling-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "The Candle", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO107", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "The Candle", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/the-candle" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-07-29" }, { "id": "PJP131", "type": "person", "name": "Julia Kuhn", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/julia-kuhn", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "NMED Air Quality Bureau permit writer of record for the YGI Microgrid application (NSR 10883); the named contact on the public-comment notice (julia.kuhn@env.nm.gov).", "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Permit writer, Air Quality Bureau", "org": "PJO10", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The NMED Air Quality Bureau permit writer of record for the YGI Microgrid air-permit application and the named contact for public comments on its notice.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Permit writer of record for the YGI Microgrid application, NSR 10883.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Named on NMED's comment portal as the contact for the air-permit notice during the July 17 – August 17, 2026 comment window.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-17" } ] }, "summary": "The permit writer — the NMED staffer whose desk the YGI Microgrid application actually sits on, and the named contact for public comments on the notice.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED comment portal — YGI Microgrid docket", "url": "https://nmed.commentinput.com/?id=BKCkAZgf3", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "contact-at", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-07-29" }, { "id": "PJP132", "type": "person", "name": "Todd Hochman", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/todd-hochman", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": "NMED IT Architect (classified state employee since 1998); signed the $499,990 Apaluma amendment as Acting CIO on May 7, 2025 — per The Candle's sources, under pressure from Secretary Kenney.", "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "IT Architect", "org": "PJO10", "current": true } ], "stake": "A career NMED IT architect whose signature, as acting CIO, is on the $499,990 Apaluma contract amendment of May 7, 2025.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "A classified state employee since 1998, per State Personnel Office records.", "date": "1998" }, { "text": "Signed the $499,990 Apaluma amendment as acting chief information officer on May 7, 2025.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-05-07" }, { "text": "Hochman's own email describes Speridian as “host SWPA vendor,” an Epic-based deliverable and “passive income from the upsold subcontracted services.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The Candle's unnamed sources, who fear retaliation, say Hochman felt pressured by Secretary Kenney to sign; the characterization is attributed, not established.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "The career IT architect whose signature is on the Apaluma amendment. His own email lays out the mechanics — Speridian as 'host SWPA vendor,' an Epic-based deliverable, 'passive income from the upsold subcontracted services' — and The Candle's sources say he felt pressured by the Secretary to sign.", "sources": [ { "label": "The Candle — no-bid deal emails", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-nm-economic-secretary-alicia-keyes-scores-big-no-bid-deal-converting-state-enviro-data-for-her-ai-agent-luma/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE61", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Apaluma awarded ~$1.48M no-bid NMED contracts", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP133", "type": "person", "name": "Tilan Ukwatta", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/tilan-ukwatta", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": "Chief Technology Officer, Apaluma; named in NMED's internal 'Project Velocity' emails as the technical counterpart for ingesting the agency's records into Apaluma's RAG system.", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Technology Officer", "org": "PJO64", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Apaluma's chief technology officer, named in NMED's internal “Project Velocity” emails as the technical counterpart for bringing the agency's records into the company's AI retrieval system.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named in an NMED email as the person to make the handoff of state records into Apaluma's RAG system “seamless.”", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Apaluma's CTO — the engineer on the receiving end of NMED's archive, named in the agency's own emails as the person to make the handoff of state records into the company's AI system 'seamless.'", "sources": [ { "label": "The Candle — no-bid deal emails (Hirschl email naming Ukwatta)", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-nm-economic-secretary-alicia-keyes-scores-big-no-bid-deal-converting-state-enviro-data-for-her-ai-agent-luma/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "top-manager-of", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO64", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Apaluma", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/apaluma" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP134", "type": "person", "name": "Mariel Nanasi", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/mariel-nanasi", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Executive director and counsel, New Energy Economy; party representative in the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing.", "profile": { "category": "advocate", "roles": [ { "title": "Executive director and counsel", "org": "PJO108", "current": true }, { "title": "Party representative", "org_label": "NMED air-permit hearing, AQB 26-57(P)", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Executive director and counsel of New Energy Economy, the group whose motion asks NMED to throw out the air-permit application for want of a fuel supply.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Listed on the air-permit hearing's party list as New Energy Economy's representative.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "On August 12, 2026, the hearing officer denied discovery and, the same day, denied New Energy Economy's motion for reconsideration.", "date": "2026-08-12" } ] }, "summary": "Leads the group whose motion asks NMED to throw out the permit application for want of a fuel supply.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (party list)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO108", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Energy Economy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-energy-economy" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE131", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The hearing officer denies discovery — his third reversal (Aug 12 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-12" ], "updated": "2026-08-12" }, { "id": "PJP136", "type": "person", "name": "Colin Cox", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/colin-cox", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Attorney, Center for Biological Diversity Climate Law Institute; party counsel in the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing; moved to reverse the hearing officer's rescheduling.", "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Attorney, Climate Law Institute", "org": "PJO113", "current": true, "src": [ 1 ] } ], "stake": "A Center for Biological Diversity attorney in the air-permit hearing who moved to reverse the hearing officer's decision to move the hearing up.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Party counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity in the air-permit hearing.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "After the hearing officer denied the applicant's request to move the hearing up and then granted it in writing two days later, Cox called the sequence “highly concerning.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Cox asked: “What happened between Monday morning, when he denied their motion for a new schedule, and Wednesday night?”", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-01" }, { "text": "Linked in the record to the Center's August 20, 2026 emergency petition against the State Engineer, the petition that produced the water stay.", "date": "2026-08-20" } ] }, "summary": "The attorney who put the reversal on the record: after the hearing officer denied the applicant's request to move the hearing up and then granted it in writing two days later, Cox called the sequence “highly concerning” and asked out loud, “What happened between Monday morning, when he denied their motion for a new schedule, and Wednesday night?”", "sources": [ { "label": "ABQ Journal — hearing date changes to September", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/project-jupiter-air-quality-hearing-date-changes-to-september/3094091", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (party list)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO113", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Center for Biological Diversity", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/center-for-biological-diversity" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; 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decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29", "2026-08-20" ], "updated": "2026-08-20" }, { "id": "PJP138", "type": "person", "name": "Charles Wollmann", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/charles-wollmann", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Chief Communications Officer, New Mexico State Investment Council; gave the on-record statement about the state's likely indirect exposure to Apaluma.", "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Communications Officer", "org": "PJO106", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The State Investment Council's chief communications officer, who said on the record that the state fund is probably indirectly invested in Apaluma.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Asked by The Candle whether New Mexico owns a stake in the regulator's contractor, Wollmann said: “I don't have official reports thus far that would indicate we are invested in Apaluma, but given the press I've seen, we probably are.”", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "The state fund's spokesman, answering plainly when The Candle asked whether New Mexico owns a piece of the regulator's contractor: “I don't have official reports thus far that would indicate we are invested in Apaluma, but given the press I've seen, we probably are.”", "sources": [ { "label": "The Candle — SIC likely has indirect exposure", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/sic-likely-has-indirect-exposure-on-5-5-million-seed-money-to-company-founded-by-governors-former-economic-secretary/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO106", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Investment Council (SIC)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-investment-council-sic" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP139", "type": "person", "name": "Gabby Contro", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gabby-contro", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Investor at Crosslink Capital, lead investor in Apaluma's $5.55M seed round; author of the firm's public rationale for the investment.", "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "Investor", "org": "PJO115", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "An investor at Crosslink Capital, the lead investor in Apaluma's $5.55M seed round, and the author of the firm's public rationale for the investment.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Crosslink Capital led Apaluma's $5.55M seed round.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Contro's statement in the funding release: “We invest in founders who understand a problem from the inside. Alicia ran economic development for the state of New Mexico… That firsthand insight is what convinced us.”", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "She said the quiet part in a press release: “We invest in founders who understand a problem from the inside. Alicia ran economic development for the state of New Mexico… That firsthand insight is what convinced us.” The government career was the pitch.", "sources": [ { "label": "PR Newswire — Apaluma $5.55M seed", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/apaluma-announces-5-55-million-seed-funding-to-scale-unified-government-data-platform-302828065.html", "kind": "primary-source" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO115", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Crosslink Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/crosslink-capital" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP140", "type": "person", "name": "Billy J. Jimenez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/billy-j-jimenez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Chief of Civil Affairs, New Mexico Department of Justice; signed the July 9, 2026 letter opening the investigation into fraudulent public comments on the Project Jupiter air permit.", "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief of Civil Affairs", "org": "PJO104", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Chief of Civil Affairs at the New Mexico Department of Justice, who signed the July 9, 2026 letter opening the investigation into fraudulent public comments on the air permit.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed the Department of Justice's July 9, 2026 letter to NMED Secretary Kenney on the air-permit comments.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-09" }, { "text": "The letter states: “We have reason to believe that an unknown, but potentially substantial number of the comments were fraudulently submitted without the consent or knowledge of the individuals named.”", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "The official who put the fraud investigation in writing: “We have reason to believe that an unknown, but potentially substantial number of the comments were fraudulently submitted without the consent or knowledge of the individuals named.”", "sources": [ { "label": "NMDOJ letter to NMED Sec. Kenney (Jul 9 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://kvia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-09-NMDOJ-Ltr-to-NMED-JKenney-re-YGI-.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO104", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Department of Justice", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-department-of-justice" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP141", "type": "person", "name": "Chris Chaffin", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/chris-chaffin", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Spokesperson, New Mexico Economic Development Department; commented on the state's $3.06M job-training award to STACK Infrastructure.", "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Spokesperson", "org": "PJO13", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "A New Mexico Economic Development Department spokesperson who commented on the state's $3.06M job-training award to STACK Infrastructure.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The state awarded STACK Infrastructure $3.06M in job-training (JTIP) funds for Project Jupiter hires.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Chaffin called it “one of the largest single JTIP awards we've announced, reflecting both the scale of the project and the significant investment in workforce development that Project Jupiter is making.”", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "The state's voice on the training money: the award is “one of the largest single JTIP awards we've announced, reflecting both the scale of the project and the significant investment in workforce development that Project Jupiter is making.”", "sources": [ { "label": "ABQ Journal — NM kicks in $3M for Project Jupiter hires", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/new-mexico-kicks-in-3m-for-project-jupiter-hires/3075860", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO13", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Economic Development Dept (NMEDD)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-economic-development-dept-nmedd" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP142", "type": "person", "name": "Tyson Slocum", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/tyson-slocum", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Energy Program Director, Public Citizen; filed the organization's FERC protest against the Green Chile pipeline (docket CP26-80).", "profile": { "category": "advocate", "roles": [ { "title": "Energy Program Director", "org": "PJO105", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Energy Program Director at Public Citizen, who filed the organization's FERC protest against the Green Chile pipeline.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Filed Public Citizen's protest in FERC docket CP26-80.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The protest states: “The Commission must reject the application as incomplete.”", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "He filed the national watchdog's protest with a blunt ask: “The Commission must reject the application as incomplete.”", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Citizen — FERC protest (PDF)", "url": "https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/GreenChile.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO105", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Public Citizen", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/public-citizen" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP143", "type": "person", "name": "Joey Keefe", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/joey-keefe", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Assistant Commissioner of Communications, New Mexico State Land Office; the office's public voice on the denial of the pipeline's state-land crossings.", "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Assistant Commissioner of Communications", "org": "PJO11", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Assistant Commissioner of Communications at the State Land Office and the office's public voice on both denials of the Green Chile pipeline's state-land crossings.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Spoke for the State Land Office through both of its denials of Energy Transfer's Green Chile crossings.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "The State Land Office's spokesman through both denials of the Green Chile crossings — the office that told Energy Transfer no twice.", "sources": [ { "label": "Source NM — Land Commissioner rejects pipeline application", "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/03/31/nm-state-land-commissioner-rejects-application-for-gas-pipeline-to-power-project-jupiter-data-center/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO11", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Land Office", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-land-office" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP144", "type": "person", "name": "Vicki Granado", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/vicki-granado", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Vice President of Corporate Communications, Energy Transfer; the company's on-record voice on the Green Chile pipeline routing.", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Vice President of Corporate Communications", "org": "PJO8", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Vice President of Corporate Communications at Energy Transfer and the company's on-record voice on the Green Chile pipeline routing.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Gave Energy Transfer's public answer to the state's refusals of the pipeline's state-land crossings.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Energy Transfer's spokeswoman on the pipeline — the developer side's public answer to the state's refusals.", "sources": [ { "label": "Source NM — Land Commissioner rejects pipeline application", "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/03/31/nm-state-land-commissioner-rejects-application-for-gas-pipeline-to-power-project-jupiter-data-center/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO8", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Energy Transfer (Transwestern)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/energy-transfer-transwestern" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP145", "type": "person", "name": "Morgan O'Grady", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/morgan-o-grady", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Staff attorney, Western Environmental Law Center; counsel for the environmental coalition that protested the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.", "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Staff attorney", "org": "PJO114", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Staff attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center who filed the environmental coalition's FERC protest against the Green Chile pipeline.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Counsel for the coalition whose FERC protest argues the pipeline should not proceed on a blanket certificate.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "The attorney who filed the coalition's FERC protest arguing the pipeline should not slip through on a blanket certificate.", "sources": [ { "label": "WELC — coalition FERC protest", "url": "https://westernlaw.org/environmental-orgs-file-protest-against-green-chile-pipeline-in-southern-new-mexico", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO114", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Western Environmental Law Center", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/western-environmental-law-center" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP146", "type": "person", "name": "Alexa Reynaud", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/alexa-reynaud", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Rural Organizing Manager, Food & Water Watch; part of the coalition protesting the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.", "profile": { "category": "advocate", "roles": [ { "title": "Rural Organizing Manager", "org_label": "Food & Water Watch", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Rural Organizing Manager at Food & Water Watch and part of the coalition protesting the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "One of the organizers behind the coalition's federal challenge to the pipeline.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "One of the organizers behind the coalition's challenge to the pipeline at the federal level.", "sources": [ { "label": "WELC — coalition FERC protest", "url": "https://westernlaw.org/environmental-orgs-file-protest-against-green-chile-pipeline-in-southern-new-mexico", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO19", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Environmental coalition (CBD / Sierra Club / Food & Water Watch)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/environmental-coalition-cbd-sierra-club-food-water-watch" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP147", "type": "person", "name": "Camilla Feibelman", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/camilla-feibelman", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Director, Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter; part of the coalition protesting the Green Chile pipeline and a longstanding public critic of the buildout.", "profile": { "category": "advocate", "roles": [ { "title": "Director", "org_label": "Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Director of the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter and part of the coalition protesting the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.", "jurisdiction": "private", "stance": { "position": "opposes", "src": [ 0 ], "basis": "Part of the coalition's FERC protest against the Green Chile pipeline; a public critic of the pipeline and the campus it would fuel." }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "Part of the coalition protesting the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "A longstanding public critic of the buildout." } ] }, "summary": "The Sierra Club's New Mexico director — one of the steadiest public voices against the pipeline and the campus it would fuel.", "sources": [ { "label": "WELC — coalition FERC protest", "url": "https://westernlaw.org/environmental-orgs-file-protest-against-green-chile-pipeline-in-southern-new-mexico", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO19", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Environmental coalition (CBD / Sierra Club / Food & Water Watch)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/environmental-coalition-cbd-sierra-club-food-water-watch" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP148", "type": "person", "name": "David Zetland", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/david-zetland", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Water economist; quoted in CBS News's June 2026 analysis of AI water use — the source of the marginal-straw framing the Watch cites on Water & Power.", "profile": { "category": "academic", "stake": "A water economist quoted in CBS News's June 2026 analysis of AI water use, the source of the marginal-straw framing the Watch cites.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Zetland: “the straw that breaks the camel's back is only gonna break the back because all the other straw is on the back first.”", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-06" }, { "text": "Argues the underlying problem is that water is priced far below its value.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "The economist whose line does the work in the water argument: “the straw that breaks the camel's back is only gonna break the back because all the other straw is on the back first.” He also argues the real problem is that water is priced far below its value.", "sources": [ { "label": "CBS News — How much water does AI really use?", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/projects/2026/how-much-water-ai-uses/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP149", "type": "person", "name": "Nathaniel Chakeres", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/nathaniel-chakeres", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "General Counsel, New Mexico Office of the State Engineer; counsel of record for OSE as a party in the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing.", "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "General Counsel", "org": "PJO45", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "General counsel of the Office of the State Engineer and its counsel of record in the air-permit hearing, to which the office is a party.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Counsel of record for the Office of the State Engineer, a party in the air-permit hearing.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The roughly one-million-gallon-a-day estimate attributed to the State Engineer's office originated with Chakeres, from “an informal conversation” with a Project Jupiter attorney, per the office's spokeswoman." }, { "text": "On September 1, 2026, told a legislative interim committee he has not “been super thrilled” with Project Jupiter's shifting water needs.", "date": "2026-09-01" } ] }, "summary": "The state water agency's lawyer in the permit hearing — the Office of the State Engineer is now a party to the proceeding that decides the campus's air permit.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — service list, Order on NEE motion (Aug 5 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-04-AQB-26-57-Order-Briefing-Dismissal-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO45", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Office of the State Engineer (OSE)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-office-of-the-state-engineer-ose" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE142", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The state's own numbers reach the Legislature (Sept 1 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "draws-on", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL1", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Actual water use ~1M gal/day (contested)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29", "2026-09-01b", "2026-10-06" ], "updated": "2026-09-01" }, { "id": "PJP150", "type": "person", "name": "Yiwei Chen", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/yiwei-chen", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Counsel for the New Mexico Economic Development Department in the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing.", "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Counsel, air-permit hearing", "org": "PJO13", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Counsel for the Economic Development Department in the air-permit hearing, in which the agency that recruited the project is a party.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "On the air-permit hearing's service list as counsel for the Economic Development Department.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "EDD's lawyer in the permit hearing — the agency that recruited the project is now a party to the proceeding deciding its permit.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — service list, Order on NEE motion (Aug 5 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-04-AQB-26-57-Order-Briefing-Dismissal-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO13", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Economic Development Dept (NMEDD)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-economic-development-dept-nmedd" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-07-29" }, { "id": "PJP151", "type": "person", "name": "Carlos Romo", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/carlos-romo", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Attorney, Williams Weese Pepple & Ferguson; additional counsel of record for applicant Yucca Growth Infrastructure, added to the hearing's service list by August 2026.", "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Attorney", "org_label": "Williams Weese Pepple & Ferguson", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "An attorney at Williams Weese Pepple & Ferguson and additional counsel of record for the permit applicant, Yucca Growth Infrastructure.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Added to the air-permit hearing's service list as counsel for Yucca Growth Infrastructure by August 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08" }, { "text": "Joins Jennifer Biever on the Denver firm's side of the case." } ] }, "summary": "Additional outside counsel for the permit applicant, joining Jennifer Biever on the Denver firm's side of the case.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — service list, Order on NEE motion (Aug 5 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-04-AQB-26-57-Order-Briefing-Dismissal-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-07-29" }, { "id": "PJP152", "type": "person", "name": "Christopher Dodd", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/christopher-dodd", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Attorney for New Energy Economy in the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing; co-counsel on the motion to dismiss or continue the application for lack of a fuel supply.", "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Attorney", "org": "PJO108", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Attorney for New Energy Economy in the air-permit hearing and co-counsel on the motion to dismiss or continue the application for lack of a fuel supply.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-counsel on New Energy Economy's motion arguing the campus has no lawful way to get its gas.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Co-counsel on the motion that asks NMED to throw out the permit application because the campus has no lawful way to get its gas.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — Order on NEE motion (Aug 5 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-04-AQB-26-57-Order-Briefing-Dismissal-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO108", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Energy Economy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-energy-economy" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-07-29" }, { "id": "PJP153", "type": "person", "name": "Esperanza Chairez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/esperanza-chairez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Policy Campaign Manager, Youth United for Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA); party representative in the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing.", "profile": { "category": "advocate", "roles": [ { "title": "Policy Campaign Manager", "org": "PJO119", "current": true }, { "title": "Party representative", "org_label": "NMED air-permit hearing, AQB 26-57(P)", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Policy Campaign Manager at Youth United for Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA), the youth climate group that entered the air-permit hearing as a party.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Listed on the air-permit hearing's party list as YUCCA's representative.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Represents the youth climate group that entered the permit hearing as a party — the generation that inherits the campus, at the table where it's decided.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (party list)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO119", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Youth United for Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/youth-united-for-climate-crisis-action-yucca" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-07-29" }, { "id": "PJP154", "type": "person", "name": "Luis Lopez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/luis-lopez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Hearing Clerk, Office of Public Facilitation, New Mexico Environment Department; the officer of record who files and serves every order in the air-permit docket.", "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Hearing Clerk, Office of Public Facilitation", "org": "PJO10", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The NMED hearing clerk who files and serves every order in the air-permit docket.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The clerk of record whose signature carries each order in the air-permit docket to the parties.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "The clerk whose signature carries each order to the parties — the administrative spine of the hearing record.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (Jul 29 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP155", "type": "person", "name": "Rep. Angelica Rubio", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-angelica-rubio", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "New Mexico State Representative (D–Las Cruces); co-presenter of the 'Conceptual Framework for a Data Center Moratorium' to the interim Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee, Aug 11, 2026.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "New Mexico State Representative (D–Las Cruces)", "org": "PJO52", "current": true } ], "stake": "A Las Cruces state representative and one of three who presented a conceptual framework for a data-center moratorium to an interim legislative committee in August 2026.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-presented the “Conceptual Framework for a Data Center Moratorium” to the interim Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee on August 11, 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "The committee heard the moratorium framework at its August 10–11, 2026 meeting in Socorro." } ] }, "summary": "One of the three representatives who brought the moratorium framework to the interim committee — the legislative front of the pushback.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Legislature — STTC agenda, Aug 10–11 2026 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Agendas/STTCageAug10.26.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE120", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Interim committee hears the moratorium framework — Socorro (Aug 10–11 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-11a" ], "updated": "2026-08-11" }, { "id": "PJP156", "type": "person", "name": "Rep. Eleanor Chávez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-eleanor-chavez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "New Mexico State Representative (D–Albuquerque); co-presenter of the data-center moratorium framework to the interim STTC, Aug 11, 2026.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "New Mexico State Representative (D–Albuquerque)", "org": "PJO52", "current": true } ], "stake": "An Albuquerque state representative and co-presenter of the data-center moratorium framework to an interim legislative committee in August 2026.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-presented the data-center moratorium framework to the interim Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee on August 11, 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "Carries the Albuquerque end of the coalition behind the framework." } ] }, "summary": "Co-presenter of the moratorium framework — carrying the Albuquerque end of the coalition.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Legislature — STTC agenda (PDF)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Agendas/STTCageAug10.26.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO52", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Legislature", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE120", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Interim committee hears the moratorium framework — Socorro (Aug 10–11 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-11a" ], "updated": "2026-08-11" }, { "id": "PJP157", "type": "person", "name": "Eric Jantz", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/eric-jantz", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Legal Director, New Mexico Environmental Law Center; counsel of record (with Maslyn Locke) for the resident parties in the air-permit hearing and on NMELC's Project Jupiter litigation.", "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Legal Director", "org": "PJO16", "current": true } ], "stake": "Legal director of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center and, with Maslyn Locke, counsel of record for the resident parties in the air-permit hearing.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Counsel of record, with Maslyn Locke, for the resident parties in the air-permit hearing.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Appears on every service list in the air-permit docket.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Counsel on NMELC's Project Jupiter litigation." } ] }, "summary": "NMELC's legal director — on every service list in the docket, and half of the counsel team carrying the residents' case.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (service list, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO16", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environmental Law Center (NMELC)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environmental-law-center-nmelc" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-07-29" }, { "id": "PJP158", "type": "person", "name": "Sahil Kassanjee", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sahil-kassanjee", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Air-quality modeler, NMED Air Quality Bureau; authored the June 16, 2026 modeling review of the YGI Microgrid application.", "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Air-quality modeler, Air Quality Bureau", "org": "PJO10", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The NMED Air Quality Bureau modeler who wrote the June 16, 2026 modeling review of the YGI Microgrid application.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Authored NMED's modeling review of the YGI Microgrid application, dated June 16, 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-06-16" }, { "text": "The review carries the permit's figure of 37.2 tons of NOx a year, minor for PSD and major for Title V.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The review concludes: “The permit can be issued based on this modeling analysis.”", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "The NMED modeler whose report carries the current permit's actual numbers — 37.2 tons of NOx a year, minor for PSD, major for Title V — and whose conclusion reads: 'The permit can be issued based on this modeling analysis.'", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — YGI Microgrid modeling review (Jun 16 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/Zjk1ZGJmOWM2YzhiYTJiYTUyZjYzMTA3MF8yMzYxODE~.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD52", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NMED — YGI Microgrid Modeling Review Report (Jun 16 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP159", "type": "person", "name": "Juan de Jesus Sanchez III", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/juan-de-jesus-sanchez-iii", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Democratic nominee for Commissioner of Public Lands, 2026 — the office that twice denied the pipeline's state-land crossings is on the ballot. Won the primary with 55% over Rep. Matthew McQueen. Distinct from Doña Ana Commissioner Manuel A. Sanchez.", "profile": { "category": "candidate", "roles": [ { "title": "Democratic nominee for Commissioner of Public Lands", "start": "2026", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The 2026 Democratic nominee for Commissioner of Public Lands, the office that twice denied the Green Chile pipeline's state-land crossings.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Won the 2026 Democratic primary with 55% over Rep. Matthew McQueen.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026" }, { "text": "The nominee to succeed Stephanie Garcia Richard; faces Michael Jack Perry in the November 3, 2026 general election.", "date": "2026-11-03" }, { "text": "Distinct from Doña Ana County Commissioner Manuel A. Sanchez." } ] }, "summary": "The Democratic nominee to succeed Stephanie Garcia Richard — whoever wins inherits the office that said no to the pipeline twice.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Legislature/SOS — 2026 primary results (via nmlegis roster)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP160", "type": "person", "name": "Michael Jack Perry", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/michael-jack-perry", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Republican nominee for Commissioner of Public Lands, 2026; unopposed in the primary.", "profile": { "category": "candidate", "roles": [ { "title": "Republican nominee for Commissioner of Public Lands", "start": "2026", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The 2026 Republican nominee for Commissioner of Public Lands, the office that twice denied the Green Chile pipeline's state-land crossings.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Unopposed in the 2026 Republican primary.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026" }, { "text": "Faces Juan de Jesus Sanchez III in the November 3, 2026 general election.", "date": "2026-11-03" } ] }, "summary": "The Republican nominee for the land office — the other possible inheritor of the pipeline decision.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM SOS — 2026 primary (unopposed)", "url": "https://www.sos.nm.gov/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP161", "type": "person", "name": "Gilbert G. Mesa", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gilbert-g-mesa", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "Agent for Santa Teresa Capital, LLC", "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "Agent", "org": "PJO103", "current": true } ], "stake": "The agent for Santa Teresa Capital, LLC who signed its October 21, 2025 emergency well letter to the State Engineer's office.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed Santa Teresa Capital's October 21, 2025 request for emergency authorization under § 72-12-22, copied to managing partner Lane Gaddy.", "date": "2025-10-21" }, { "text": "The letter states three wells had failed and lists the industrial project's construction schedule among its nine reasons." }, { "text": "An emergency authorization issued two days later, on October 23, 2025; the Supreme Court stayed it on August 23, 2026.", "date": "2025-10-23" } ] }, "summary": "Signed the October 21, 2025 emergency well letter to the State Engineer's office as agent for Santa Teresa Capital — the letter stating three wells had failed and listing the industrial project's construction schedule among the reasons for emergency authorization.", "sources": [ { "label": "OSE — hearing officer report on LRG-03150-E (Aug 20 2025)", "url": "https://api.realfile.rtsclients.com/PublicFiles/5f809ddfc9864dad89f9d03375144a14/a3304a88-9226-4245-8053-088e86c73e8f/2025-08-20%20Report%20%20Recommendation.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "contact-at", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO103", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Santa Teresa Capital, LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/santa-teresa-capital-llc" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP162", "type": "person", "name": "Christopher O. Lyons", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/christopher-o-lyons", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "President, Paseo Del Norte LLC and Santa Teresa Land LLC", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "President", "org": "PJO125", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "President", "org": "PJO124", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "President of Paseo Del Norte LLC and Santa Teresa Land LLC, the entities that acquired the Santa Teresa land in the December 2013 land-and-water split.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "On December 23, 2013, Instrument #1330941 records Paseo Del Norte and Santa Teresa Land acquiring the land while the Verde entities reserved easements over the wells.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2013-12-23" }, { "text": "Signs for both landholding companies.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The emergency well's point of diversion sits on Paseo Del Norte land." } ] }, "summary": "The land side of the 2013 split: his entities acquired the Santa Teresa acreage in December 2013 while the Verde entities reserved the well easements. Signs for both landholding companies; the emergency well's point of diversion sits on Paseo Del Norte land.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO124", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Santa Teresa Land LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/santa-teresa-land-llc" }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO125", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Paseo Del Norte LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/paseo-del-norte-llc" } ], "timeline": [ "2013-12-23" ], "updated": "2013-12-23" }, { "id": "PJP163", "type": "person", "name": "David Birdwell", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/david-birdwell", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "COO, Verde Realty Operating Partnership", "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "COO, Verde Realty Operating Partnership", "org": "PJO126", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Chief operating officer of Verde Realty Operating Partnership, who signed the 2013 easement agreement that kept the water rights with the Verde entities while the land passed to the Lyons entities.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed the 2013 easement agreement, Instrument #1330941, for all three Verde entities.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2013-12-23" } ] }, "summary": "Signed the 2013 easement agreement (Instrument #1330941) for all three Verde entities — the document that kept the water rights with Verde while the land passed to the Lyons entities.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "top-manager-of", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO126", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "The Verde entities (VROP · VST · VBI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/the-verde-entities-vrop-vst-vbi" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP164", "type": "person", "name": "Jesse Lovegren", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jesse-lovegren", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "Consultant, Trinity Consultants", "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "Consultant", "org": "PJO75", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "A Trinity Consultants consultant and one of the two preparers of the project's air-permit applications.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Prepared the East and West gas-turbine air-permit filings and the 648-page YGI Microgrid application with a Trinity Consultants colleague.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "One of the two Trinity Consultants preparers of the air-permit applications — the East and West gas-turbine filings and the 648-page YGI Microgrid application.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMELC — initial letter re: YGI Microgrid", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Initial-Letter-re_-YGI-Microgrid-.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO75", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Trinity Consultants", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/trinity-consultants" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP165", "type": "person", "name": "Jaimy Karacaoglu", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jaimy-karacaoglu", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "Consultant, Trinity Consultants", "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "Consultant", "org": "PJO75", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "A Trinity Consultants consultant and one of the two preparers of the project's air-permit applications.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Prepared the East and West gas-turbine air-permit filings and the 648-page YGI Microgrid application with a Trinity Consultants colleague.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "One of the two Trinity Consultants preparers of the air-permit applications — the East and West gas-turbine filings and the 648-page YGI Microgrid application.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMELC — initial letter re: YGI Microgrid", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Initial-Letter-re_-YGI-Microgrid-.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO75", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Trinity Consultants", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/trinity-consultants" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP166", "type": "person", "name": "JR Hennessey", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jr-hennessey", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "Deputy District Manager, District IV, NM Office of the State Engineer (the October 21, 2025 letter addressed him as Deputy District IV Supervisor)", "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Deputy District Manager, District IV", "org": "PJO45", "current": true } ], "stake": "The State Engineer's District IV official who signed the October 23, 2025 emergency authorization for Santa Teresa Capital's replacement well.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Santa Teresa Capital's October 21, 2025 emergency well letter was addressed to Hennessey.", "date": "2025-10-21" }, { "text": "Signed for District IV the October 23, 2025 Emergency Authorization, File LRG-03150-E, Permit LRG-03150-POD 50.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025-10-23" }, { "text": "The authorization finds an emergency in which delay from publication and hearing “may result in economic loss,” and limits the well to the same source, amount, place and purpose of use as the right it replaces.", "date": "2025-10-23" }, { "text": "The Supreme Court stayed the authorization on August 23, 2026.", "date": "2026-08-23" } ] }, "summary": "The state official to whom the October 21, 2025 emergency well letter was addressed. The action box on that application form is blank, but two days later, on October 23, 2025, Hennessey signed the emergency authorization for District IV.", "sources": [ { "label": "OSE — hearing officer report on LRG-03150-E (Aug 20 2025)", "url": "https://api.realfile.rtsclients.com/PublicFiles/5f809ddfc9864dad89f9d03375144a14/a3304a88-9226-4245-8053-088e86c73e8f/2025-08-20%20Report%20%20Recommendation.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "CBD — Emergency Verified Petition for Writ of Mandamus (filed Aug 20 2026, 151 pp, PDF), carrying the Oct 21 2025 letter and the Oct 23 2025 authorization as attachments", "url": "https://biologicaldiversity.org/programs/climate_law_institute/pdfs/26-08-20-NM-Final-Writ-w-attach.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO45", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Office of the State Engineer (OSE)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-office-of-the-state-engineer-ose" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD54", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "OSE Emergency Authorization to Drill and Use Replacement Well LRG-03150-POD 50 (Oct 23 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-10-23" ], "updated": "2025-10-23" }, { "id": "PJP167", "type": "person", "name": "Samantha Barncastle Salopek", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/samantha-barncastle-salopek", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Attorney (water and natural-resources policy); Republican nominee, County Commission District 1", "profile": { "category": "candidate", "roles": [ { "title": "Republican nominee, Doña Ana County Commission District 1", "start": "2026", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Attorney (water and natural-resources policy)", "current": true } ], "stake": "A water and natural-resources attorney and the Republican nominee for the open Doña Ana County Commission District 1 seat.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Unopposed in the June 2026 Republican primary for the open District 1 commission seat.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-06" }, { "text": "Faces Daisy Maldonado in the November 3, 2026 general election.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-11-03" }, { "text": "The seat is open because Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez, who chaired the county's $165B vote, is not seeking reelection." }, { "text": "Ran for the state Senate in 2024, losing to Sen. Carrie Hamblen by 298 votes.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2024" } ] }, "summary": "Water and natural-resources attorney, unopposed in the June 2026 Republican primary for the open District 1 commission seat. Faces Daisy Maldonado in November. Ran for state Senate District 38 in 2024, losing to Sen. Carrie Hamblen by 298 votes.", "sources": [ { "label": "Organ Mountain News — Maldonado wins the D1 Democratic primary (Jun 3 2026)", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/daisy-maldonado-wins-dona-ana-county-commission-district-1-primary-2026/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "candidate-in", "raw": "candidate-in", "label": "Candidate in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE51", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM gubernatorial election (Nov 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "election-opponent-of", "raw": "opponent-of", "label": "Election opponent of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP104", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Daisy Maldonado", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/daisy-maldonado" }, { "predicate": "election-opponent-of", "raw": "seeks-seat-of", "label": "Election opponent of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP4", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/christopher-schaljo-hernandez" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-06-02", "2026-11-03" ], "updated": "2026-06-02" }, { "id": "PJP168", "type": "person", "name": "Scott Twaddle", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/scott-twaddle", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Senior Vice President", "org": "PJO1", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "A senior vice president at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle's named voice on the Arable water-conservation program announced in August 2026.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Quoted in Oracle's August 11, 2026 announcement of a watershed conservation program with Arable.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "Twaddle's statement: “use water as efficiently as possible in our operations, then invest in practical, local projects that improve local water infrastructure, conservation, and availability for the community.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The program funds irrigation-efficiency work in the Rio Grande–Bravo watershed to conserve about 21 million gallons a year.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle's named voice on the Arable water program: \"use water as efficiently as possible in our operations, then invest in practical, local projects that improve local water infrastructure, conservation, and availability for the community.\"", "sources": [ { "label": "Oracle press release — Project Jupiter Launches Initiative to Save More Water Than It Uses in New Mexico (Aug 11 2026)", "url": "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/project-jupiter-launches-initiative-with-arable-2026-08-11/", "kind": "company" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE130", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle and Arable announce a watershed conservation program (Aug 11 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-11c" ], "updated": "2026-08-11" }, { "id": "PJP169", "type": "person", "name": "Jim Ethington", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jim-ethington", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Executive", "org": "PJO136", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Chief executive of Arable, the agricultural-technology company in Oracle's August 2026 watershed conservation program for Project Jupiter.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Quoted in Oracle's August 11, 2026 announcement of the conservation program with Arable.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "Ethington's statement: “Growers know their land and crops better than anyone, and our role is to give them trusted, timely information to support and inform more precise irrigation decisions.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The program relies on in-field sensors and grower training in the Rio Grande–Bravo watershed.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Chief executive of Arable. On the conservation program: \"Growers know their land and crops better than anyone, and our role is to give them trusted, timely information to support and inform more precise irrigation decisions.\"", "sources": [ { "label": "Oracle press release — Project Jupiter Launches Initiative to Save More Water Than It Uses in New Mexico (Aug 11 2026)", "url": "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/project-jupiter-launches-initiative-with-arable-2026-08-11/", "kind": "company" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO136", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Arable", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/arable" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE130", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle and Arable announce a watershed conservation program (Aug 11 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-11c" ], "updated": "2026-08-11" }, { "id": "PJP170", "type": "person", "name": "Bobby Hollis", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/bobby-hollis", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief Development Officer", "org": "PJO5", "current": true } ], "stake": "STACK Infrastructure's chief development officer, who presented Project Jupiter's job figures to the Doña Ana County commission in late July 2026.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Presented to county commissioners with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure EVP Mahesh Thiagarajan in late July 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07" }, { "text": "The presentation cited nearly 700 New Mexicans in ongoing construction, nearly 2,800 construction workers to date and $734 million in contracts with New Mexico suppliers.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The presenters committed to 100% carbon-free energy matching by 2031.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The developers' annual jobs report, due that week, was not produced on the deadline; the county said it contains personally identifying information and that a summary would be posted.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Chief Development Officer, STACK Infrastructure. Presented Project Jupiter's job figures to the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners in late July 2026 alongside Oracle Cloud Infrastructure EVP Mahesh Thiagarajan — days before the developers' annual jobs report was due to the county, and the report was not produced on the deadline.", "sources": [ { "label": "Organ Mountain News / Source New Mexico — hearing rescheduled to September (Aug 1 2026)", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/project-jupiter-air-quality-permit-hearing-rescheduled-september-2026/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO5", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "STACK Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stack-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE135", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle and STACK present job numbers to the county — the required report does not arrive (late Jul 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-28b" ], "updated": "2026-07-28" }, { "id": "PJP171", "type": "person", "name": "Terra V. Winter", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/terra-v-winter", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "President and Chief Executive", "org": "PJO137", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "President and chief executive of the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico, quoted on the Oracle scholarship fund.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Quoted when the Oracle scholarship fund awarded 25 scholarships in August 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08" }, { "text": "Winter's statement: “By helping reduce financial barriers, these scholarships make it possible for more students to complete their degrees and pursue meaningful careers.”", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "President and chief executive of the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico. On the Oracle scholarships: \"By helping reduce financial barriers, these scholarships make it possible for more students to complete their degrees and pursue meaningful careers.\"", "sources": [ { "label": "Organ Mountain News — Oracle scholarship fund awards 25 scholarships (Aug 10 2026)", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/oracle-scholarship-fund-dona-ana-county-students-cfsnm-2026/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO137", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/community-foundation-of-southern-new-mexico" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP172", "type": "person", "name": "Colleen Cassity", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/colleen-cassity", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Global head of social impact", "org": "PJO1", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Oracle's global head of social impact and the company's named voice on the Doña Ana County scholarship fund.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Oracle's named voice when its Doña Ana County scholarship fund awarded 25 scholarships in August 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08" } ] }, "summary": "Oracle's global head of social impact, the company's named voice on the Doña Ana County scholarship fund.", "sources": [ { "label": "Organ Mountain News — Oracle scholarship fund awards 25 scholarships (Aug 10 2026)", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/oracle-scholarship-fund-dona-ana-county-students-cfsnm-2026/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP173", "type": "person", "name": "Melanie Stansbury", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/melanie-stansbury", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "U.S. Representative, New Mexico's First Congressional District", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The U.S. representative for New Mexico's First Congressional District, who on August 24, 2026 wrote to five state officials asking for a public accounting of Project Jupiter's water.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "On August 24, 2026, wrote to the Attorney General, the State Engineer, the Environment Secretary and the chair and director of the Interstate Stream Commission, asking for a “clear public accounting” of the project's water sources, rights and permits by August 28.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-24" }, { "text": "Stansbury's framing: “Every new major water use deserves a transparent accounting of where its water is coming from and how that use fits within our state's obligations.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The letter cites record-low snowpack, statewide curtailments, Elephant Butte at its lowest storage since 1971 and the Rio Grande dry through the middle reach for more than three months.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The State Engineer replied on August 28, 2026 that the construction water comes from an existing, verified right and “is not a new depletion of water in the Lower Rio Grande.”", "date": "2026-08-28" }, { "text": "The campus is not in Stansbury's district; it is in the Second." } ] }, "summary": "United States Representative for New Mexico's First Congressional District. On August 24, 2026 she wrote to five state officials demanding a public accounting of Project Jupiter's water — the first federal-level demand for the specific record this site has been assembling by hand. Her framing: \"Every new major water use deserves a transparent accounting of where its water is coming from and how that use fits within our state's obligations.\" The campus is not in her district; it is in the Second.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rep. Melanie Stansbury — letter to five New Mexico officials (Aug 24 2026)", "url": "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-demands-answers-project-jupiters-water-use-new-mexico-supreme", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD58", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Rep. Stansbury's letter to five state officials (Aug 24 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE139", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "A member of Congress asks the state to account for the water (Aug 24 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP196", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Teresa Leger Fernández", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/teresa-leger-fernandez" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-24b", "2026-08-28", "2026-09-24b" ], "updated": "2026-09-24" }, { "id": "PJP174", "type": "person", "name": "Gabe Vasquez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gabe-vasquez", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "U.S. Representative, New Mexico's Second Congressional District", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The U.S. representative for New Mexico's Second Congressional District, which contains the campus, who cosponsored two federal data-center bills on August 25, 2026.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "On August 25, 2026, cosponsored H.R. 9655, which would stop utilities recovering large data centers' grid costs from ordinary ratepayers, and H.R. 9825, which would compel disclosure of data-center water and energy use.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-25" }, { "text": "Vasquez's statement: “New Mexico's water, air and resources belong to us, not to billionaires from coastal states who see an opportunity to extract profit from our land.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The only direct reference to Project Jupiter in that announcement was his July condemnation of a security guard's use of force at a county meeting.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "United States Representative for New Mexico's Second Congressional District — the district containing the campus. On August 25, 2026 he cosponsored two federal data-center bills, H.R. 9655 and H.R. 9825. His statement: \"New Mexico's water, air and resources belong to us, not to billionaires from coastal states who see an opportunity to extract profit from our land. I've been appalled at the backroom deals, silencing of dissenting voices, shady NDAs and shell companies, and the overall lack of transparency.\" Worth noting precisely: the only direct reference to Project Jupiter in that announcement was his July condemnation of a security guard's use of force at a county meeting.", "sources": [ { "label": "Organ Mountain News / Source New Mexico — Vasquez backs two federal data center bills (Aug 31 2026)", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/gabe-vasquez-federal-data-center-bills-project-jupiter-2026/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE141", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Two federal bills gain the district's congressman (Aug 25 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-25b" ], "updated": "2026-08-25" }, { "id": "PJP175", "type": "person", "name": "Aletheia V.P. Allen", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/aletheia-v-p-allen", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Solicitor General of New Mexico", "org": "PJO104", "current": true, "src": [ 0, 1 ] } ], "stake": "New Mexico's Solicitor General, whose name is on both of the Attorney General's September 2026 responses supporting the emergency petitions in the air and water cases.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named on the Attorney General's response in the air case, S-1-SC-41579.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09" }, { "text": "Named on the Attorney General's September 2, 2026 response in the water case, S-1-SC-41580.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026-09-02" }, { "text": "The responses argue that NMED violated the air petitioner's due-process rights and that § 72-12-22 does not reach a change of purpose and place.", "src": [ 0, 1 ] } ] }, "summary": "Solicitor General of New Mexico. Her name is on both of the Attorney General's September 2026 responses — the air case and the water case — which is the structural fact worth holding: the state's appellate lawyer arguing, in two separate matters at once, that two state agencies failed to follow the law.", "sources": [ { "label": "Response of the Attorney General — S-1-SC-41579 (Sept 2026)", "url": "https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/attorney-general-raul-torrez-files-responses-backing-emergency-petitions-challenging-project-jupiter-permitting-decisions/", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "Response of the Attorney General — S-1-SC-41580 (Sept 2 2026)", "url": "https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/attorney-general-raul-torrez-files-responses-backing-emergency-petitions-challenging-project-jupiter-permitting-decisions/", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD55", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Response of the Attorney General — the air case (S-1-SC-41579)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD56", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Response of the Attorney General — the water case (S-1-SC-41580)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-02b" ], "updated": "2026-09-02" }, { "id": "PJP176", "type": "person", "name": "Serena R. Wheaton", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/serena-r-wheaton", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Assistant Solicitor General", "org": "PJO104", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "An Assistant Solicitor General at the New Mexico Department of Justice and lead signatory on the Attorney General's response in the air case.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Lead signatory on the Attorney General's response in S-1-SC-41579, the air case.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09" }, { "text": "That response argues NMED violated the petitioner's constitutional due-process rights, and that § 74-2-7(B)(3) let the department extend its own deadline.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Assistant Solicitor General, New Mexico Department of Justice; lead signatory on the Attorney General's response in the air case, S-1-SC-41579.", "sources": [ { "label": "Response of the Attorney General — S-1-SC-41579 (Sept 2026)", "url": "https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/attorney-general-raul-torrez-files-responses-backing-emergency-petitions-challenging-project-jupiter-permitting-decisions/", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD55", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Response of the Attorney General — the air case (S-1-SC-41579)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP177", "type": "person", "name": "Justin McCarthy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/justin-mccarthy", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Assistant Solicitor General", "org": "PJO104", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "An Assistant Solicitor General at the New Mexico Department of Justice and lead signatory on the Attorney General's response in the water case.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Lead signatory on the Attorney General's September 2, 2026 response in S-1-SC-41580, the water case.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09-02" }, { "text": "That response argues § 72-12-22 does not reach a change of purpose and place, and attaches the State Engineer's own guidance as an exhibit.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Assistant Solicitor General, New Mexico Department of Justice; lead signatory on the Attorney General's response in the water case, S-1-SC-41580 — the filing that attaches the State Engineer's own guidance as an exhibit against her office.", "sources": [ { "label": "Response of the Attorney General — S-1-SC-41580 (Sept 2 2026)", "url": "https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/attorney-general-raul-torrez-files-responses-backing-emergency-petitions-challenging-project-jupiter-permitting-decisions/", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD56", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Response of the Attorney General — the water case (S-1-SC-41580)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP178", "type": "person", "name": "Ellen Venegas", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/ellen-venegas", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Senior Solicitor General", "org": "PJO104", "current": true, "src": [ 0, 1 ] } ], "stake": "Senior Solicitor General at the New Mexico Department of Justice and a signatory on both of the Attorney General's September 2026 responses in the air and water cases.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signatory on the Attorney General's response in the air case, S-1-SC-41579.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09" }, { "text": "Signatory on the Attorney General's September 2, 2026 response in the water case, S-1-SC-41580.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026-09-02" } ] }, "summary": "Senior Solicitor General, New Mexico Department of Justice; signatory on both September 2026 responses.", "sources": [ { "label": "Response of the Attorney General — S-1-SC-41579 (Sept 2026)", "url": "https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/attorney-general-raul-torrez-files-responses-backing-emergency-petitions-challenging-project-jupiter-permitting-decisions/", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "Response of the Attorney General — S-1-SC-41580 (Sept 2 2026)", "url": "https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/attorney-general-raul-torrez-files-responses-backing-emergency-petitions-challenging-project-jupiter-permitting-decisions/", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD55", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Response of the Attorney General — the air case (S-1-SC-41579)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD56", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Response of the Attorney General — the water case (S-1-SC-41580)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP179", "type": "person", "name": "Margaret Cook", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/margaret-cook", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "academic", "roles": [ { "title": "Vice President of Water and Community Resilience", "org": "PJO139", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "A Houston Advanced Research Center vice president who testified to a New Mexico interim legislative committee on September 1, 2026 about data-center water use in the state.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Told the interim Water and Natural Resources Committee that data centers in New Mexico currently use just over 500 million gallons a year, about half of one percent of state water use.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09-01" }, { "text": "Testified that every facility now planned would take that to 23.6 billion gallons a year, most of it indirect, for cooling the plants that power them.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The 23.6-billion figure is testimony, not a published study." }, { "text": "Cook's caveat: “There's a lot of data uncertainty with data centers, which is a bit ironic. The lack of transparency from data centers means that we don't have enough information for planning.”", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Vice President of Water and Community Resilience at the Houston Advanced Research Center. On September 1, 2026 she told New Mexico's interim Water and Natural Resources Committee that data centers in the state currently use just over 500 million gallons a year — about half of one percent of state water use — and that every facility now planned would take that to 23.6 billion gallons a year, most of it indirect, for cooling the plants that power them. Her own caveat is the part to keep: \"There's a lot of data uncertainty with data centers, which is a bit ironic. The lack of transparency from data centers means that we don't have enough information for planning.\"", "sources": [ { "label": "Source New Mexico — data center water use could soar, researcher tells lawmakers (Sept 1 2026)", "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/09/01/new-mexico-data-center-water-use-could-soar-in-coming-years-researcher-tells-state-lawmakers/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO139", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Houston Advanced Research Center", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/houston-advanced-research-center" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE142", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The state's own numbers reach the Legislature (Sept 1 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-01b" ], "updated": "2026-09-01" }, { "id": "PJP180", "type": "person", "name": "Hannah Riseley-White", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/hannah-riseley-white", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Director, Interstate Stream Commission", "org": "PJO138", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Director of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission and one of five officials Rep. Melanie Stansbury wrote to on August 24, 2026 about Project Jupiter's water.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "An addressee of Rep. Stansbury's August 24, 2026 letter asking for a public accounting of the project's water.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-24" }, { "text": "The Commission manages New Mexico's obligations under the Rio Grande Compact." } ] }, "summary": "Director of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, one of five officials Rep. Stansbury wrote to on August 24, 2026. The Commission is the body that manages New Mexico's obligations under the Rio Grande Compact — the obligations a new industrial groundwater user in the Lower Rio Grande runs into.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rep. Melanie Stansbury — letter to five New Mexico officials (Aug 24 2026)", "url": "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-demands-answers-project-jupiters-water-use-new-mexico-supreme", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO138", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-mexico-interstate-stream-commission" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP181", "type": "person", "name": "Mark Sanchez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/mark-sanchez", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "Chair, Interstate Stream Commission", "org": "PJO138", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Chair of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission and an addressee of Rep. Melanie Stansbury's August 24, 2026 letter on Project Jupiter's water.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "An addressee of Rep. Stansbury's August 24, 2026 letter asking for a public accounting of the project's water.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-24" }, { "text": "Not the same person as Doña Ana County Commission Chair Manuel A. Sanchez, who holds a different office." } ] }, "summary": "Chair of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission; addressee of Rep. Stansbury's August 24, 2026 letter. Not to be confused with Doña Ana County Commission Chair Manuel A. Sanchez, a different person in a different office.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rep. Melanie Stansbury — letter to five New Mexico officials (Aug 24 2026)", "url": "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-demands-answers-project-jupiters-water-use-new-mexico-supreme", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO138", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-mexico-interstate-stream-commission" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP182", "type": "person", "name": "Tanya Trujillo", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/tanya-trujillo", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "appointed-official", "roles": [ { "title": "Deputy State Engineer", "org": "PJO45", "current": true }, { "title": "New Mexico's representative to the Upper Colorado River Commission", "current": true }, { "title": "Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, U.S. Department of the Interior", "current": false } ], "stake": "New Mexico's Deputy State Engineer, who briefed the Legislature's interim Water and Natural Resources Committee on Project Jupiter's water on October 29, 2025.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Briefed the interim Water and Natural Resources Committee in Artesia on October 29, 2025, six days after the emergency well was authorized.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-10-29" }, { "text": "Told members that the development of a new data center “should align with the objectives outlined in the state's 50-year strategic water action plan.”", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Deputy State Engineer of New Mexico, and the state's representative to the Upper Colorado River Commission. She briefed the Legislature's Water and Natural Resources Committee on October 29, 2025 — ten months before the hearing fight — telling members that the development of a new data center \"should align with the objectives outlined in the state's 50-year strategic water action plan.\" Formerly Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the Department of the Interior.", "sources": [ { "label": "New Mexico Legislature — Water and Natural Resources Committee 2025 final report", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Publications/Interim_Reports/WNR25.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE137", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Legislature is briefed on Project Jupiter (Oct 29 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-10-29" ], "updated": "2025-10-29" }, { "id": "PJP184", "type": "person", "name": "Susan Day", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/susan-day", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "roles": [ { "title": "Senior Economist", "org": "PJO141", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "A senior economist at Eastern Research Group whom hearing officer Max Shepherd named in July 2026 as the person completing the service contract he needed before he could act in the air-permit proceeding.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "On July 7, 2026, Max Shepherd wrote that he was “waiting for Susan Day at ERG to complete my new service contract” before he could perform hearing-officer duties.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-07" }, { "text": "In 2021, NMED offered Day as a technical witness in EIB 21-27(R), its oil-and-gas ozone-precursor rulemaking, where she testified that she had been asked to provide testimony “in support of” the Department's proposed regulations.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2021" }, { "text": "Nothing in the record establishes that Day selected, directs or evaluates the hearing officer, or acted improperly, and the filing that surfaced this says so explicitly.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Senior Economist at Eastern Research Group. In 2021 NMED offered her as a technical witness in EIB 21-27(R), its oil-and-gas ozone-precursor rulemaking, where she testified that she had been asked to provide testimony \"in support of\" the Department's proposed regulations, describing analysis ERG performed using data NMED supplied. She is also the ERG representative whom Max Shepherd identified, in July 2026, as the person completing the individual service contract he said he needed before he could perform hearing-officer duties in this matter. Nothing in the record establishes that she selected him, directs him, evaluates him, or acted improperly, and the filing that surfaced this says so explicitly.", "sources": [ { "label": "Maxwell's Response in Substantial Support of Joint Emergency Motion for Disqualification and Stay, and Supplemental Motion for Expedited Disclosure Concerning the ERG Contractual Relationship — AQB 26-57(P), Aug 21 2026 (133 pp. with exhibits, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/08/2026-08-21-AQB-26-57-Resp-Mot-Disqualify-Supplemental-Mot-wExhibits.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO141", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Eastern Research Group, LLC (ERG)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/eastern-research-group-llc-erg" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE154", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The appointed hearing officer waits on a contract before he can act (July 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-07" ], "updated": "2026-07-07" }, { "id": "PJP185", "type": "person", "name": "John Koupal", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/john-koupal", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "expert-witness", "roles": [ { "title": "Vice President and Senior Scientist", "org": "PJO141", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "A vice president and senior scientist at Eastern Research Group whose 2023 testimony for NMED is cited in a filing about ERG's relationship with the Department in the air-permit proceeding.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "In the 2023 Advanced Clean Cars II rulemaking, EIB 23-56(R), NMED's Notice of Intent identified Koupal as an ERG senior scientist and “a consultant for the Department's Climate Change Bureau.”", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2023" }, { "text": "NMED entered Koupal's direct testimony as NMED Exhibit 45, alongside supporting material its exhibit list called the “ERG Report.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Asked what steps were taken to assure objectivity, Koupal answered: “ERG is very committed to conflict of interest — avoiding any conflict of interest, and it's something that is part of our contractual relationships with clients.”", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Vice president and senior scientist at Eastern Research Group. In the 2023 Advanced Clean Cars II rulemaking, EIB 23-56(R), NMED's Notice of Intent identified him as an ERG senior scientist and \"a consultant for the Department's Climate Change Bureau,\" and entered his direct testimony as NMED Exhibit 45, alongside hundreds of pages of supporting material the Department's own exhibit list called the \"ERG Report.\" Asked at hearing what steps he took to assure objectivity, he answered: \"ERG is very committed to conflict of interest — avoiding any conflict of interest, and it's something that is part of our contractual relationships with clients.\"", "sources": [ { "label": "Maxwell's Response in Substantial Support of Joint Emergency Motion for Disqualification and Stay, and Supplemental Motion for Expedited Disclosure Concerning the ERG Contractual Relationship — AQB 26-57(P), Aug 21 2026 (133 pp. with exhibits, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/08/2026-08-21-AQB-26-57-Resp-Mot-Disqualify-Supplemental-Mot-wExhibits.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO141", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Eastern Research Group, LLC (ERG)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/eastern-research-group-llc-erg" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP186", "type": "person", "name": "Brian Yardman-Frank", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brian-yardman-frank", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "attorney", "roles": [ { "title": "Assistant General Counsel", "org": "PJO10", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "NMED's assistant general counsel and counsel of record in the air-permit docket, who circulated the July 2, 2026 Notice of Docketing and followed up on the hearing officer's service contract.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Counsel of record in AQB 26-57 and co-author of the Department's July 2026 Position Statement.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "On July 2, 2026, circulated the signed Notice of Docketing, explaining it served “to appoint the hearing officer and delegate decision authority to Deputy Secretary John Rhoderick.”", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-02" }, { "text": "On July 9, 2026, wrote to the hearing officer, copying ERG's Susan Day, to check whether the new service contract was in place before setting the scheduling conference.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-09" } ] }, "summary": "Assistant General Counsel, New Mexico Environment Department; counsel of record in AQB 26-57 and co-author of the Department's July 2026 Position Statement. On July 2, 2026 he circulated the signed Notice of Docketing, explaining that it served both \"to appoint the hearing officer and delegate decision authority to Deputy Secretary John Rhoderick.\" On July 9 he wrote to the hearing officer, copying ERG's Susan Day: \"I just wanted to check to see if your new service contract is in place. If so, the Department is looking forward to setting up the scheduling conference.\"", "sources": [ { "label": "Maxwell's Response in Substantial Support of Joint Emergency Motion for Disqualification and Stay, and Supplemental Motion for Expedited Disclosure Concerning the ERG Contractual Relationship — AQB 26-57(P), Aug 21 2026 (133 pp. with exhibits, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/08/2026-08-21-AQB-26-57-Resp-Mot-Disqualify-Supplemental-Mot-wExhibits.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE154", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The appointed hearing officer waits on a contract before he can act (July 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-07" ], "updated": "2026-07-07" }, { "id": "PJP187", "type": "person", "name": "Marisa Blackshire", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/marisa-blackshire", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "executive", "roles": [ { "title": "Vice President of Environmental and Regulatory Law", "org": "PJO7", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Bloom Energy's vice president of environmental and regulatory law, named as the Responsible Official on Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air-permit application.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named as the Responsible Official on the YGI air-permit application, listed with a Bloom Energy email address.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Signed the Section 22 certification at page 648 of the 648-page application.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "New Energy Economy argued from this that “This is not simply an application submitted by Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC.”", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-03" }, { "text": "Another intervenor responded that these facts may establish Bloom's operational or representative role but do not by themselves make Bloom the applicant; the applicant of record is Yucca Growth Infrastructure.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026-08-07" } ] }, "summary": "Vice President of Environmental and Regulatory Law at Bloom Energy. She is the Responsible Official named on Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air permit application, listed with a Bloom Energy email address, and she signed the Section 22 certification at page 648 of the 648-page application. New Energy Economy's point in surfacing this: \"This is not simply an application submitted by Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC\" — the application was executed and certified by a Bloom officer on behalf of Bloom's own fuel cells, so questions directed to Bloom \"go directly to the evidentiary basis upon which the Department is being asked to issue this permit.\" Another intervenor put the limit on it: those facts may establish Bloom's operational or representative role, but do not by themselves make Bloom the applicant. The applicant of record is Yucca Growth Infrastructure.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED docket AQB 26-57 — New Energy Economy's Response to YGI/Bloom Energy's Request for Denial of Discovery, Aug 3 2026 (51 pp., PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/08/2026-08-03-AQB-26-57-NEEs-Resp-to-YGI-Req-for-Denial-of-Disco-filed.pdf", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "NMED docket AQB 26-57 — Maxwell's Response in Opposition to NEE's Motion to Dismiss, Aug 7 2026 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/08/2026-08-07-AQB-26-57-Maxwell-Response-NEE-Objection-filed.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO7", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bloom Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bloom-energy" }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD44", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "YGI Microgrid — Bloom fuel-cell air application (2.45 GW, Apr 26 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO66", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": null }, { "id": "PJP188", "type": "person", "name": "Robert Aubert", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/robert-aubert", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "stake": "A member of IUPAT District Council 36, Local 823, who entered an appearance in the air-permit proceeding on August 24, 2026, the last filing in the docket.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Entered an appearance on August 24, 2026, the day after the Supreme Court stayed the proceeding and two days after the hearing officer recused.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-24" }, { "text": "The appearance is the last filing in the docket.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The sixth union to appear; the other five all asked for the hearing to be moved forward." } ] }, "summary": "Of IUPAT District Council 36, Local 823 — the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. He entered an appearance in the air-permit proceeding on August 24, 2026, the day after the Supreme Court stayed it and two days after the hearing officer recused. His is the last filing in the docket. He is the sixth union to appear; the other five all asked for the hearing to be moved forward.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED docket AQB 26-57 — Entry of Appearance for Robert Aubert, Aug 24 2026 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/08/2026-08-24-AQB-26-57-EOA-Robert-Aubert-filed.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-07-29" }, { "id": "PJP189", "type": "person", "name": "Cindy Hollenberg", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/cindy-hollenberg", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "Chief of NMED's Air Quality Bureau; recommended that a public hearing be held on the Jupiter air permit.", "profile": { "category": "agency-staff", "roles": [ { "title": "Chief, Air Quality Bureau", "org": "PJO10", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "Chief of NMED's Air Quality Bureau, who on July 1, 2026 recommended that a public hearing be held on the Project Jupiter air permit.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The bureau received the YGI Microgrid application on April 27, 2026 and ruled it complete on May 27.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-04-27" }, { "text": "On July 1, 2026, wrote to Cabinet Secretary James Kenney, through Division Director Michelle Miano, recommending a public hearing.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-01" }, { "text": "The memorandum cites “approximately 6,700 public comments,” “with comments both supporting and opposing the application,” and “significant public interest” under 20.2.72.206 NMAC.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Kenney checked “I concur” and signed the same day; the docket opened the next day.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-01" } ] }, "summary": "Chief of the Air Quality Bureau at the New Mexico Environment Department — the bureau that received the YGI Microgrid application on April 27, 2026 and ruled it complete a month later. On July 1, 2026 she wrote to Cabinet Secretary James Kenney, through Division Director Michelle Miano, recommending that a public hearing be held. Her stated grounds were the volume of comment and \"significant public interest\" under 20.2.72.206 NMAC. Kenney checked \"I concur\" and signed it by DocuSign the same day; the docket opened the next day. The hearing that has since been scheduled, accelerated, fought over, stayed and left unheld exists because a bureau chief asked for it and a cabinet secretary said yes.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED docket AQB 26-57 — Request for Public Hearing Determination, memorandum from Air Quality Bureau Chief Cindy Hollenberg to Cabinet Secretary James Kenney, July 1 2026, received July 2 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-02-AQB-26-57-Req-for-Public-Hrg-Determination-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "authored", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD78", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Request for Public Hearing Determination (July 1 2026 memorandum)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Officer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "names", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD78", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Request for Public Hearing Determination (July 1 2026 memorandum)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-01" ], "updated": "2026-07-01" }, { "id": "PJP190", "type": "person", "name": "Scott Forrester", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/scott-forrester", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Registered lobbyist (2026); reported as lobbying for Bloom Energy; former executive director of the Democratic Party of New Mexico.", "profile": { "category": "lobbyist", "roles": [ { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO7", "start": "2026-07-01", "current": true, "src": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Executive director, Democratic Party of New Mexico", "current": false } ], "stake": "A registered lobbyist for Bloom Energy, the fuel-cell supplier whose installation is the subject of the air permit, and a former executive director of the Democratic Party of New Mexico.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named with Brent Moore as a lobbyist for Bloom Energy in the September 21, 2026 email to the Legislative Finance Committee, as reported by The New Mexican.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09-21" }, { "text": "Registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's lobbyist system; Forrester's own registration lists Bloom Energy as a client from July 1, 2026.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026-07-01" }, { "text": "Bloom Energy's 2026 roster lists Forrester from July 1, 2026, marked “Authorized: No,” alongside Brent Moore, marked “Authorized: Yes.”", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "The registry's page does not say what “Authorized: No” means, and this record does not interpret it." } ] }, "summary": "A veteran New Mexico Democratic consultant and former executive director of the state Democratic Party, reported by The New Mexican to be a registered lobbyist for Bloom Energy, the fuel-cell supplier whose 2.45-gigawatt installation is the subject of the air permit. The Secretary of State's lobbyist system shows him registered and active for 2026. His own registration lists Bloom Energy as a client from July 1, 2026, and Bloom's roster lists him from the same date, marked Authorized: No, alongside Brent Moore (Authorized: Yes). (Corrected Sept 28: an earlier version said Bloom's filing listed only Moore.)", "sources": [ { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — A ‘who’s who of power brokers in New Mexico’ lobbying for Project Jupiter (Sept 25 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/a-whos-who-of-power-brokers-in-new-mexico-lobbying-for-project-jupiter/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — Campaign Finance Information System, public lobbyist and lobbyist-employer search, 2026 filing year (queried Sept 27 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — employer lobbyist rosters, as shown on the public client pages (GetAuthorizedLobbyists), 2026 (read Sept 27–28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO7", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bloom Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bloom-energy" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-21" }, { "id": "PJP191", "type": "person", "name": "Marco Gonzales", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/marco-gonzales", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Registered lobbyist (2026); reported as lobbying for STACK Infrastructure; sent the lobbyist list to the Legislative Finance Committee.", "profile": { "category": "lobbyist", "roles": [ { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO5", "start": "2025-08-28", "current": true } ], "stake": "The registered lobbyist for STACK Infrastructure who on September 21, 2026 emailed the Legislative Finance Committee the list of Project Jupiter's lobbyists.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "On September 21, 2026, emailed members of the Legislative Finance Committee a list of the lobbyists working for Project Jupiter's companies; The New Mexican obtained it.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09-21" }, { "text": "STACK Infrastructure's lobbyist roster lists Gonzales from August 28, 2025.", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2025-08-28" }, { "text": "Registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's lobbyist system.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "A Democrat who ran for the Bernalillo County Commission.", "src": [ 0 ] } ] }, "summary": "Reported as the registered lobbyist for STACK Infrastructure, the developer, and the person who on September 21 emailed legislators on the Legislative Finance Committee the list of Project Jupiter's lobbyists. A Democrat who ran for the Bernalillo County Commission. Registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's system.", "sources": [ { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — A ‘who’s who of power brokers in New Mexico’ lobbying for Project Jupiter (Sept 25 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/a-whos-who-of-power-brokers-in-new-mexico-lobbying-for-project-jupiter/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — Campaign Finance Information System, public lobbyist and lobbyist-employer search, 2026 filing year (queried Sept 27 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — employer lobbyist rosters, as shown on the public client pages (GetAuthorizedLobbyists), 2026 (read Sept 27–28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO5", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "STACK Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stack-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-21" }, { "id": "PJP192", "type": "person", "name": "Rich Guay", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rich-guay", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Registered lobbyist (2026); reported as lobbying for Oracle.", "profile": { "category": "lobbyist", "roles": [ { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO1", "start": "2026-01-26", "current": true, "src": [ 1 ] } ], "stake": "The registered lobbyist for Oracle, the campus's anchor tenant, named in the September 2026 lobbyist list and in Oracle America's registry filing.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Reported by The New Mexican as Oracle's lobbyist in the September 21, 2026 email to the Legislative Finance Committee.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09-21" }, { "text": "Oracle America, Inc. is registered as a 2026 lobbyist employer, and Richard Guay is registered and active for 2026.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Oracle America's roster lists Guay from January 26, 2026, and, from July 23, 2026, Kathryn Gunter and Merissa Khachigian.", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2026-01-26" } ], "aliases": [ "Richard Guay" ] }, "summary": "Reported by The New Mexican as the lobbyist for Oracle, the campus's anchor tenant. Oracle America, Inc. is registered as a 2026 lobbyist employer, and Richard Guay is registered and active for 2026, in the Secretary of State's system.", "sources": [ { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — A ‘who’s who of power brokers in New Mexico’ lobbying for Project Jupiter (Sept 25 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/a-whos-who-of-power-brokers-in-new-mexico-lobbying-for-project-jupiter/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — Campaign Finance Information System, public lobbyist and lobbyist-employer search, 2026 filing year (queried Sept 27 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — employer lobbyist rosters, as shown on the public client pages (GetAuthorizedLobbyists), 2026 (read Sept 27–28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-21" }, { "id": "PJP193", "type": "person", "name": "Jessie Lane Hunt", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jessie-lane-hunt", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": "Registered lobbyist (2026); reported as lobbying for OpenAI.", "profile": { "category": "lobbyist", "roles": [ { "title": "Registered lobbyist, under her own firm", "org_label": "Rio Strategies", "current": true } ], "stake": "A lobbyist reported by The New Mexican as lobbying for OpenAI; the Secretary of State's registry shows her registered only under her own firm, Rio Strategies, with no OpenAI entity registered.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The September 21, 2026 email to the Legislative Finance Committee, as reported by The New Mexican, lists Hunt as lobbying for OpenAI.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09-21" }, { "text": "Registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's lobbyist system.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "The registry shows Hunt registered only under her own firm, Rio Strategies; no OpenAI entity is registered as a lobbyist employer in New Mexico." }, { "text": "The OpenAI pairing rests on the email as reported." } ] }, "summary": "Reported by The New Mexican as the lobbyist for OpenAI, the Stargate partner whose computing the campus is built to serve. Registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's system. Registry (Sept 28 2026): she is registered only under her own firm, Rio Strategies, and no OpenAI entity is registered as a lobbyist employer in New Mexico. The OpenAI pairing rests on the email as reported.", "sources": [ { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — A ‘who’s who of power brokers in New Mexico’ lobbying for Project Jupiter (Sept 25 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/a-whos-who-of-power-brokers-in-new-mexico-lobbying-for-project-jupiter/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — Campaign Finance Information System, public lobbyist and lobbyist-employer search, 2026 filing year (queried Sept 27 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-21" }, { "id": "PJP194", "type": "person", "name": "Brent Moore", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brent-moore", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Registered lobbyist (2026); reported as lobbying for Bloom Energy.", "profile": { "category": "lobbyist", "roles": [ { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO7", "start": "2026-07-14", "current": true } ], "stake": "A longtime Santa Fe lobbyist and attorney registered for Bloom Energy, the fuel-cell supplier whose installation is the subject of the air permit.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named with Scott Forrester as a lobbyist for Bloom Energy in the September 21, 2026 email to the Legislative Finance Committee, as reported by The New Mexican.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09-21" }, { "text": "J. Brent Moore is registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's lobbyist system.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Bloom Energy's 2026 roster lists Moore from July 14, 2026, marked “Authorized: Yes,” alongside Scott Forrester, marked “Authorized: No.”", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2026-07-14" } ], "aliases": [ "J. Brent Moore" ] }, "summary": "A longtime Santa Fe lobbyist and attorney, reported by The New Mexican as registered for Bloom Energy. J. Brent Moore is registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's system.", "sources": [ { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — A ‘who’s who of power brokers in New Mexico’ lobbying for Project Jupiter (Sept 25 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/a-whos-who-of-power-brokers-in-new-mexico-lobbying-for-project-jupiter/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — Campaign Finance Information System, public lobbyist and lobbyist-employer search, 2026 filing year (queried Sept 27 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — employer lobbyist rosters, as shown on the public client pages (GetAuthorizedLobbyists), 2026 (read Sept 27–28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO7", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bloom Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bloom-energy" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-21" }, { "id": "PJP195", "type": "person", "name": "Gregg Hull", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gregg-hull", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "2026 Republican nominee for governor; former mayor of Rio Rancho. Opposes a statewide data-center moratorium.", "profile": { "category": "candidate", "roles": [ { "title": "Republican nominee for Governor of New Mexico", "start": "2026", "current": true, "src": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Mayor of Rio Rancho", "current": false } ], "stake": "The 2026 Republican nominee for governor of New Mexico and former mayor of Rio Rancho, who opposes a statewide data-center moratorium and would write clawbacks into state incentive deals.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Opposes a statewide moratorium: “If you do a statewide moratorium then that sends the message that we're not even open for discussion.”", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09" }, { "text": "Would evaluate projects one at a time, with guardrails and clawbacks written into state incentive deals.", "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "text": "On Project Jupiter: “Project Jupiter had guardrails built into it. Now, did they follow through on those? From what I'm hearing, no. So then you put clawbacks in the deal.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "His campaign says he has not accepted or solicited donations from “big data.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "State filings show no contribution to him from Oracle, BorderPlex, STACK, Bloom, Energy Transfer or OpenAI, and none of $1,000 or more from those companies' executives or the construction contractors.", "src": [ 2 ] } ] }, "summary": "The 2026 Republican nominee for governor and former mayor of Rio Rancho. He opposes a statewide moratorium — \"If you do a statewide moratorium then that sends the message that we're not even open for discussion\" — and would evaluate projects one at a time, with guardrails and clawbacks written into state incentive deals. On this project specifically: \"Project Jupiter had guardrails built into it. Now, did they follow through on those? From what I'm hearing, no. So then you put clawbacks in the deal.\" His campaign says he has not accepted or solicited donations from \"big data.\" The state's filings, searched by contributor, show no contribution to him from Oracle, BorderPlex, STACK, Bloom, Energy Transfer or OpenAI; and among all 317 contributions of $1,000 or more to his campaign, none comes from those companies' executives or from the construction contractors either (PJCL204).", "sources": [ { "label": "KOB 4 — Data center debate enters gubernatorial race, candidates spar over Project Jupiter donations (Sept 2026)", "url": "https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/data-center-debate-enters-gubernatorial-race-candidates-spar-over-project-jupiter-donations/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Source New Mexico — New Mexico Election 2026: New Mexico governor (Sept 24 2026)", "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/09/24/new-mexico-election-2026-new-mexico-governor/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — Campaign Finance Information System, contribution search (queried Sept 28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC128", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "The national data-center backlash (2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "in-tension-with", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP125", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Deb Haaland", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/deb-haaland" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL203", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "What the project's companies gave, in the state's own filings (2025–26)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL204", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The project's executives gave the Democratic nominee $112,200; the Republican, nothing", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-14c", "2026-09-16b", "2026-09-17b" ], "updated": "2026-09-17" }, { "id": "PJP196", "type": "person", "name": "Teresa Leger Fernández", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/teresa-leger-fernandez", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "U.S. Representative, New Mexico's 3rd District (D). Called on Sept 24 2026 for a pause on new data centers in New Mexico.", "profile": { "category": "elected-official", "roles": [ { "title": "U.S. Representative, New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District (D)", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The U.S. representative for New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District, who on September 24, 2026 called for a pause on new data-center development in New Mexico.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "On September 24, 2026, called for a moratorium on new data-center development in New Mexico until companies meet six “No Blank Checks for Data Centers” principles.", "src": [ 0, 1 ], "date": "2026-09-24" }, { "text": "The principles: data centers pay for their own power and infrastructure, don't harm local water, meet the state's renewable and zero-carbon requirements, create union jobs, get community approval before permitting and building, and take no taxpayer subsidies.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Leger Fernández: “The role of government is to protect us from greedy corporations … we will not give them a blank check.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The release does not name Project Jupiter or Oracle; it came the day Oracle's force majeure notice was reported.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The second member of the state's House delegation to take a public position, after Rep. Melanie Stansbury's August letter." } ] }, "summary": "On September 24, 2026 she called for a moratorium on new data center development in New Mexico until companies meet six conditions she titled the \"No Blank Checks for Data Centers\" principles: don't raise electric bills — data centers pay for their own power and infrastructure; don't harm local water; use energy that meets New Mexico's renewable and zero-carbon requirements; create good-paying union jobs; get community approval and consult before permitting and building; and no taxpayer subsidies, with community benefits. \"The role of government is to protect us from greedy corporations … we will not give them a blank check.\" Her release does not name Project Jupiter or Oracle; it came the day the force majeure notice was reported. She is the second member of the state's House delegation to take a public position, after Rep. Melanie Stansbury's August letter.", "sources": [ { "label": "Office of Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández — Leger Fernández calls for pause on data center development, unveils “No Blank Checks for Data Centers” principles (Sept 24 2026)", "url": "https://fernandez.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=663", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Source New Mexico — U.S. Rep. Leger Fernández calls for ‘pause’ on data centers in New Mexico (Sept 24 2026)", "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/09/24/u-s-rep-leger-fernandez-calls-for-pause-on-data-centers-in-new-mexico-as-oracle-stock-falls/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC128", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "The national data-center backlash (2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP173", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Melanie Stansbury", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/melanie-stansbury" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE155", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle sends a force majeure notice on Project Jupiter (Sept 24 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-16b", "2026-09-24", "2026-09-24b" ], "updated": "2026-09-24" }, { "id": "PJP197", "type": "person", "name": "Roberto A. Ramirez", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/roberto-a-ramirez", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "Registered lobbyist for Yucca Growth Infrastructure (from Jan 1 2026) and BorderPlex Digital Assets (from Feb 1 2025).", "profile": { "category": "lobbyist", "roles": [ { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO66", "start": "2026-01-01", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO4", "start": "2025-02-01", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "A registered lobbyist for Yucca Growth Infrastructure, the air-permit applicant, and for BorderPlex Digital Assets, who was not on the list emailed to the Legislative Finance Committee.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "One of five lobbyists on Yucca Growth Infrastructure's 2026 roster with the Secretary of State, and one of two marked “Authorized: Yes”; the other is Vanessa Alarid.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-01-01" }, { "text": "A registered lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets since February 1, 2025.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-02-01" }, { "text": "Not on the list of the project's lobbyists emailed to the Legislative Finance Committee in September 2026.", "date": "2026-09-21" } ] }, "summary": "One of five lobbyists on Yucca Growth Infrastructure's 2026 roster with the Secretary of State, and one of the two marked Authorized: Yes — the other is Vanessa Alarid — and a registered lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets since February 1, 2025. He was not on the list emailed to the Legislative Finance Committee in September 2026.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Secretary of State — lobbyist registrations and employer filings, 2026 (queried Sept 28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO66", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-21" }, { "id": "PJP198", "type": "person", "name": "Kathryn Gunter", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/kathryn-gunter", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "Registered lobbyist for Oracle America, Inc. (from Jul 23 2026).", "profile": { "category": "lobbyist", "roles": [ { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO1", "start": "2026-07-23", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "A registered lobbyist listed in Oracle America's 2026 lobbyist-employer filing from July 23, 2026, who was not on the list emailed to the Legislative Finance Committee.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Listed in Oracle America's 2026 lobbyist-employer filing with the Secretary of State from July 23, 2026, alongside Rich Guay.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-23" }, { "text": "Not on the list of the project's lobbyists emailed to the Legislative Finance Committee in September 2026.", "date": "2026-09-21" } ] }, "summary": "Listed in Oracle America's 2026 lobbyist-employer filing with the Secretary of State from July 23, 2026, alongside Rich Guay. Not on the list emailed to the Legislative Finance Committee in September 2026.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Secretary of State — lobbyist registrations and employer filings, 2026 (queried Sept 28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-21" }, { "id": "PJP199", "type": "person", "name": "Merissa Khachigian", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/merissa-khachigian", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "Registered lobbyist for Oracle America, Inc. (from Jul 23 2026).", "profile": { "category": "lobbyist", "roles": [ { "title": "Registered lobbyist", "org": "PJO1", "start": "2026-07-23", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "A registered lobbyist listed in Oracle America's 2026 lobbyist-employer filing from July 23, 2026, who was not on the list emailed to the Legislative Finance Committee.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Listed in Oracle America's 2026 lobbyist-employer filing with the Secretary of State from July 23, 2026, alongside Rich Guay.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-23" }, { "text": "Not on the list of the project's lobbyists emailed to the Legislative Finance Committee in September 2026.", "date": "2026-09-21" } ] }, "summary": "Listed in Oracle America's 2026 lobbyist-employer filing with the Secretary of State from July 23, 2026, alongside Rich Guay. Not on the list emailed to the Legislative Finance Committee in September 2026.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Secretary of State — lobbyist registrations and employer filings, 2026 (queried Sept 28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-21" }, { "id": "PJP200", "type": "person", "name": "James O. Browning", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/james-o-browning", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "category": "judge-or-hearing-officer", "roles": [ { "title": "Substitute Hearing Officer, air-permit case AQB 26-57(P)", "org": "PJO10", "start": "2026-10-02", "current": true, "src": [ 0 ] } ], "stake": "The substitute hearing officer appointed to run the air-permit proceeding after the first hearing officer recused; final decisions stay with the Deputy Cabinet Secretary.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Appointed substitute hearing officer in AQB 26-57(P) by Cabinet Secretary James Kenney on October 2, 2026; the notice keeps all final and dispositive decisions with Deputy Cabinet Secretary John Rhoderick.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-10-02" }, { "text": "United States District Judge for the District of New Mexico from 2003; took senior status February 1, 2026 and retired August 28, 2026.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026-08-28" }, { "text": "The notice sets no scheduling conference and no hearing date.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-10-02" } ], "as_of": "2026-10-03" }, "summary": "Appointed substitute hearing officer in the air-permit case on October 2, 2026; a United States District Judge for New Mexico from 2003 until retirement on August 28, 2026.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED docket AQB 26-57 — Notice of Substitution of Hearing Officer (Oct 2 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/10/2026-10-02-AQB-26-57-Notice-of-Substitution-of-Hearing-Officer.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Federal Judicial Center — Browning, James O. (biographical directory)", "url": "https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/browning-james-o", "kind": "official-bio" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "appointed", "raw": "appointed", "label": "Appointed by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP21", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "James Kenney", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/james-kenney" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "presides-over", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29", "2026-10-02" ], "updated": "2026-10-03" }, { "id": "PJO1", "type": "organization", "name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "tenant" ], "key_people": [ "PJP28", "PJP29", "PJP106", "PJP51", "PJP172" ], "stake": "The campus's confirmed tenant, which the record says funds all energy costs and hosts OpenAI workloads.", "jurisdiction": "private", "stance": { "position": "supports", "src": [ 2 ], "basis": "Published a July 2026 announcement presenting the project as “$4.7 billion to New Mexico.”" }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "Registered “Green Chile Ventures” as an alternate name of Oracle America Cloud Services LLC on September 18, 2025, the day before the county's bond vote.", "date": "2025-09-18" }, { "text": "Published its “Project Jupiter Water Facts” statement on April 27, 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-04-27" }, { "text": "Its July 28, 2026 presentation to the county built a $4.7 billion benefit figure that, by its own footnote, assumed the air permit and pipeline would be approved on time.", "date": "2026-07-28" }, { "text": "Told commissioners on September 8, 2026 that it is contractually obligated to STACK for 17.9 years, against 30-year bonds, and that its intent is to renew.", "date": "2026-09-08" }, { "text": "Registered a $3,444,500 lobbying advertising campaign, paid entirely to Brabender Cox, which the State Ethics Commission called the largest reported since 2021.", "date": "2026-09-16" }, { "text": "Sent STACK Infrastructure a force majeure notice, reported September 24, 2026, pointing to delays in the air permit and the Green Chile pipeline; Oracle called such notices “commonplace.”", "date": "2026-09-24" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "tenant; funds all energy costs; hosts OpenAI workloads", "sources": [ { "label": "Oracle — \"Project Jupiter Water Facts\" statement (Apr. 27, 2026)", "url": "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/project-jupiter-water-facts-2026-04-27/", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "El Paso Matters — explainer on Oracle's role in Project Jupiter and the Stargate initiative", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/25/stargate-open-ai-oracle-project-jupiter-data-center-dona-ana-new-mexico-el-paso-texas/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Oracle — Project Jupiter announcement, \"$4.7 billion to New Mexico\" (Jul. 28, 2026)", "url": "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/project-jupiter-2026-07-28/", "kind": "primary-source" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "tenant-of", "raw": "tenant-of", "label": "Tenant or customer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "hosts-workloads-for", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO2", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "OpenAI", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/openai" }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partner-in", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO18", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Stargate initiative", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stargate-initiative" }, { "predicate": "subsidiary-of", "raw": "part-of-stack", "label": "Subsidiary or vehicle of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO18", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Stargate initiative", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stargate-initiative" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "layer-3", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC93", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Five-layer value-extraction structure", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "characterizes", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC96", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Oracle debt pyramid (~$108-150B)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "revenue-thesis-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC97", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Oracle-OpenAI $300B compute contract", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "against", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE57", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle bondholder securities-fraud class action", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "held-by", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC101", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Oracle $400M Bloom warrant (synthetic supply-chain equity)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "tenant-of", "raw": "anchor-customer-of", "label": "Tenant or customer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO7", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bloom Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bloom-energy" }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP28", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Larry Ellison", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/larry-ellison" }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP29", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Safra Catz", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/safra-catz" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "govt-affairs-lead-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP51", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Josh Pitcock", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/josh-pitcock" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC107", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Oracle's Pence-network revolving door (Pitcock)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC117", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Five-layer institutional stack (synthesis)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP106", 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"target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#circular-financing-oracle-openai-softbank" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO4", "type": "organization", "name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "special-purpose-entity", "hq": "Austin, TX", "roles_in_project": [ "developer" ], "key_people": [ "PJP2", "PJP25", "PJP17", "PJP18", "PJP168", "PJP121", "PJP31", "PJP65", "PJP197" ], "stake": "The originating deal vehicle for Project Jupiter, which signed the state MOU and whose name is on the project's early commitments.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Held an option on 400 acres of the Santa Teresa assembly from January 6, 2025, before the February MOU and the September bond vote.", "date": "2025-01-06" }, { "text": "Signed a memorandum of understanding with the State of New Mexico on February 25, 2025.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-02-25" }, { "text": "Its SEC Form D, filed February 18, 2025, reports a first sale on January 31, 2025, in a $20.5 million Regulation D 506(b) raise.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025-01-31" }, { "text": "The Austin headquarters on its Form D is a WeWork virtual office, and its phone number carries a Houston area code." }, { "text": "Announced a $5 billion Digital Infrastructure Campus on March 20, 2025.", "date": "2025-03-20" }, { "text": "Gave $98,325 across 2025 and 2026 to state legislators, The Speaker Fund and the Doña Ana County Democratic Party, per state campaign filings." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "BorderPlex Digital Assets — the originating deal vehicle. Form D HQ (600 Congress Ave Ste 15041, Austin) is a WeWork virtual office; phone is a Houston area code → a deal-structuring shell, not an operating company", "sources": [ { "label": "BorderPlex Digital–State of New Mexico Memorandum of Understanding, Feb. 25, 2025 (mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2.25.25.BorderPlexDigitalMOU.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "SEC EDGAR — Form D filed by BorderPlex Digital Assets, LLC (Feb. 2025)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2048625/000204862525000001/0002048625-25-000001-index.html", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "BorderPlex Digital Assets — company leadership page (Wayback Machine capture, Aug. 30, 2025)", "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250830095814/https://www.borderplexdigital.com/leadership", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "Heath Haussamen — \"Developer must guarantee Project Jupiter's rosy promises\"", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2025/09/03/developer-must-guarantee-project-jupiters-rosy-promises/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "El Paso News — Project Jupiter's El Paso connection to the Santa Teresa data center", "url": "https://elpasonews.org/2025/09/18/project-jupiter-the-el-paso-connection-to-the-santa-teresa-data-center/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "develops", "raw": "develops", "label": "Develops or operates", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD11", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "BorderPlex–State of NM MOU (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "develops", "raw": "develops", "label": "Develops or operates", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC65", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Original multi-tenant 'Digital Infrastructure Campus' vision", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partnered-with", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO38", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "El Paso Electric (EPE)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/el-paso-electric-epe" }, { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "founded", "label": "Founded by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP2", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Lanham Napier", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/lanham-napier" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD13", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NMSU–BorderPlex desal advisory agreement (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP17", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Jacques Greyling", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jacques-greyling" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP18", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Harvey Powers", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/harvey-powers" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "contact-at", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP19", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Alicia Keyes", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/alicia-keyes" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "layer-1", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC93", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Five-layer value-extraction structure", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "finances", "raw": "capitalizes", "label": "Financed by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJC94", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "BorderPlex $20.5M Reg D 506(b) raise", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subsidiary-of", "raw": "vehicle-of", "label": "Parent of", "direction": "in", "target": "PJC95", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Delaware SPE network (Yucca / Green Chile / Red Chiles A-D)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "co-founder-of", "label": "Founded by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP25", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rajiv S. Patel", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rajiv-s-patel" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC102", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Keyes→Apaluma→NMED conflict nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP31", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Jennifer Bradfute", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jennifer-bradfute" }, { "predicate": "subsidiary-of", "raw": "spe-of", "label": "Parent of", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO66", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC105", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "P23 related-party governance (Powers↔Napier)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "borrowed-name-from", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO73", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "The Borderplex Alliance", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/the-borderplex-alliance" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC106", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Borderplex Alliance naming nexus (legitimacy laundering)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "characterizes", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC108", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "BorderPlex as a virtual-address deal vehicle", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partner-of", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO79", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "EPCOR (Water)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/epcor-water" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "announces", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD19", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Governor's Feb 25 2025 BorderPlex press release", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbies-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO86", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bradfute Sayer Consulting & Legal Services", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bradfute-sayer-consulting-legal-services" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC117", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Five-layer institutional stack (synthesis)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "against", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE71", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "County declares Project Jupiter 'out of compliance' (Jun 24 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "supports", "raw": "supports", "label": "Supported by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP98", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Nathan Small", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-nathan-small" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contractor-for", "label": "Retains", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO97", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Clayco", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/clayco" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contractor-for", "label": "Retains", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO98", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Kiewit", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/kiewit" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "consultant-for", "label": "Retains", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP109", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Jose Ibarra", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jose-ibarra" }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "promised-by", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPR1", "target_type": "promise", "target_name": "Quarterly job reports and environmental assessments will be filed.", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "promised-by", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPR2", "target_type": "promise", "target_name": "Up to 1,500 permanent jobs ($75k–100k) plus ~2,500–4,000 construction jobs.", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "promised-by", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPR5", "target_type": "promise", "target_name": "$360M in PILOT payments over 30 years; first $50M of GRT to a community water fund; >$600M GRT to state/county.", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "promised-by", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPR9", "target_type": "promise", "target_name": "No public money borrowed; no financial risk to county taxpayers.", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "hosted", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO88", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Border Authority", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-border-authority" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE52", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "BorderPlex Form D — first sale Jan 31 2025 (signed Feb 18, filed Feb 20)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "advisor-to", "label": "Retains", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP20", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Dr. Pei Xu", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/dr-pei-xu" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE1", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "MOU signed (Feb 25 2025, pre-public)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE38", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "BorderPlex announces $5B Digital Infrastructure Campus (Mar 20 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE40", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMSU–BorderPlex desal advisory agreement signed (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE6", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Bloom fuel cell pivot (Apr 27 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "shares-address-with", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO75", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Trinity Consultants", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/trinity-consultants" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP65", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Matthias Sayer", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/matthias-sayer" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "hosted", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP88", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Gerardo Fierro", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gerardo-fierro" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "references", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL4", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "NMSU NDA required records-request notification", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "promised-by", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPR4", "target_type": "promise", "target_name": "$50M water-system investment + $10M to Sunland Park ($56.9M cumulative water/community commitments).", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "develops", "raw": "develops-at", "label": "Develops or operates", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPL1", "target_type": "place", "target_name": "Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, NM", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/place/santa-teresa-dona-ana-county-nm" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI1", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Revolving door — Alicia Keyes", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#revolving-door-alicia-keyes" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI7", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Academic capture — NMSU's records-NDA", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#academic-capture-nmsu-s-records-nda" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI8", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Sealed interests — undisclosed owners & terms", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#sealed-interests-undisclosed-owners-terms" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP121", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Vanessa Alarid", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/vanessa-alarid" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI9", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Lobbyist on both sides — Vanessa Alarid (BorderPlex + MVEDA)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#lobbyist-on-both-sides-vanessa-alarid-borderplex-mveda" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL117", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "BorderPlex's captured lobbyist (per F Minus) is Jackson Walker L.L.P.", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "announced", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE130", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle and Arable announce a watershed conservation program (Aug 11 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "announced", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE134", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Oracle scholarship fund makes its first twenty-five awards (Aug 10 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL172", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The developers have given more than $272,000 to New Mexico politicians this cycle", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL203", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "What the project's companies gave, in the state's own filings (2025–26)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP197", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Roberto A. Ramirez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/roberto-a-ramirez" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL205", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "BorderPlex's political gifts, reported twice: by its lobbyist and by the recipients", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-01-06", "2025-02-25", "2026-08-10b", "2026-08-11c", "2026-09-14c", "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO5", "type": "organization", "name": "STACK Infrastructure", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stack-infrastructure", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "parent": "PJO6", "roles_in_project": [ "developer", "builder", "operator" ], "key_people": [ "PJP39", "PJP76", "PJP170", "PJP191" ], "stake": "The campus's construction and operating partner, owned by Blue Owl Capital and the provider under Oracle's lease.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The CEO of STACK Americas is Matt VanderZanden, formerly in site selection at Facebook." }, { "text": "Chief Development Officer Bobby Hollis told county commissioners on July 28, 2026 that the project employs nearly 700 New Mexicans in ongoing construction and has $734 million in contracts with New Mexico suppliers.", "date": "2026-07-28" }, { "text": "Asked that day to define long-term, the presenters gave Oracle's duration as about 17.9 years and STACK's as at least 25 to 30.", "date": "2026-07-28" }, { "text": "The state approved $3.06 million in job-training funds for STACK in 2026.", "date": "2026" }, { "text": "Offered data-center technician roles at $40 an hour, after a three-month program run with Oracle at Doña Ana Community College, at a September 18, 2026 NMSU career fair.", "date": "2026-09-18" }, { "text": "Received Oracle's force majeure notice, reported September 24, 2026; STACK said the notice “does not change the financial commitments.”", "date": "2026-09-24" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "STACK Infrastructure — Jupiter's construction/operating partner; CEO of STACK Americas = Matt VanderZanden (ex-Facebook site selection). 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"Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP39", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Matt VanderZanden", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/matt-vanderzanden" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC117", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Five-layer institutional stack (synthesis)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP76", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Brian Cox", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brian-cox" }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "promised-by", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPR4", "target_type": "promise", "target_name": "$50M water-system investment + $10M to Sunland Park ($56.9M cumulative water/community commitments).", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "oversees", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP40", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Matt A'Hearn", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/matt-a-hearn" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE24", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "STACK APAC sale process $30B+ (May-Jun 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "beneficiary-of", "raw": "beneficiary-of", "label": "Benefits from", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE47", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "SB 235 passes Senate, dies in House (2026 session)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "transfers-control-of", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE70", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Blue Owl acquires IPI Partners (announced Oct 7 2024, completed Jan 6 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "beneficiary-of", "raw": "benefits", "label": "Benefits from", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE108", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "State approves $3.06M in job-training funds for STACK (2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP170", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Bobby Hollis", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/bobby-hollis" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE135", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle and STACK present job numbers to the county — the required report does not arrive (late Jul 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE152", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Project Jupiter's partners recruit at NMSU — without saying Project Jupiter (Sept 18 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE155", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle sends a force majeure notice on Project Jupiter (Sept 24 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP191", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Marco Gonzales", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/marco-gonzales" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL201", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Oracle's contract runs 17.9 years; the tax break runs 30", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL204", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The project's executives gave the Democratic nominee $112,200; the Republican, nothing", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP114", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Tim Kuester", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/tim-kuester" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "cites", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJN1", "target_type": "narrative", "target_name": "Who lent Project Jupiter $165 billion?", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/narratives/who-lent-project-jupiter-165-billion" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-02-14", "2026-02-19", "2026-07-28b", "2026-07-28c", "2026-09-08c", "2026-09-17b", "2026-09-18", "2026-09-21c", "2026-09-24", "2026-09-30" ], "updated": "2026-09-30" }, { "id": "PJO6", "type": "organization", "name": "Blue Owl Capital", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "roles_in_project": [ "investor" ], "key_people": [ "PJP40", "PJP77", "PJP78", "PJP79", "PJP80", "PJP81", "PJP82", "PJP83" ], "stake": "The private-capital firm that owns STACK Infrastructure, the campus's builder and operator.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Owns STACK Infrastructure through its acquisition of IPI Partners." }, { "text": "Its Digital Infrastructure business is led by Matt A'Hearn." }, { "text": "The record shows no Jupiter-specific financing announced by Blue Owl." }, { "text": "Suspended OBDC II redemptions in November 2025, halted redemptions alongside a $1.4 billion loan sale in February 2026, and set 5% withdrawal caps on April 2, 2026." }, { "text": "Carved STACK's European business out to Apollo in April 2025 and ran a sale process of more than $30 billion for STACK's Asia-Pacific business in May–June 2026." }, { "text": "Its shares closed down 3.6% on the day Oracle's force majeure notice was reported.", "date": "2026-09-24" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Blue Owl Capital — owns STACK via the IPI acquisition (announced Oct 7 2024, completed Jan 6 2025) (~$10.5B AUM, 82 data centers); Digital Infrastructure led by Matt A'Hearn.", "sources": [ { "label": "Blue Owl Capital — press release (SEC Form 8-K, Ex. 99.1): agreement to acquire IPI Partners, Oct 7 2024", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1823945/000119312524233331/d869362dex991.htm", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Blue Owl Capital — Blue Owl Capital completes acquisition of IPI Partners' business (Jan 6 2025)", "url": "https://www.blueowl.com/news/blue-owl-capital-completes-acquisition-ipi-partners-business", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "owns", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO5", "target_type": "organization", 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"predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP81", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Liam Fleming", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/liam-fleming" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP82", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Karen Hager", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/karen-hager" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP83", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Neena Reddy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/neena-reddy" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "expanded", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE70", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Blue Owl acquires IPI Partners (announced Oct 7 2024, completed Jan 6 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC117", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Five-layer institutional stack (synthesis)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "joint-venture-with", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO54", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Crusoe Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/crusoe-energy" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE19", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "STACK European carve-out to Apollo (Apr 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE21", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Blue Owl suspends OBDC II redemptions (Nov 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE22", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Blue Owl halts redemptions / $1.4B loan sale (Feb 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE23", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Blue Owl 5% withdrawal caps; stock -45% (Apr 2 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE24", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "STACK APAC sale process $30B+ (May-Jun 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE155", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle sends a force majeure notice on Project Jupiter (Sept 24 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL198", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The Jupiter loans were quoted at 89 to 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"target_name": "“Financing the AI Buildout” — Van Nieuwerburgh, Brookings conference draft (Sept 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-03-13", "2026-09-24" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO7", "type": "organization", "name": "Bloom Energy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bloom-energy", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "supplier", "operator" ], "key_people": [ "PJP8", "PJP187", "PJP190", "PJP194" ], "stake": "The fuel-cell supplier for the campus's 2.45 GW on-site microgrid, named in the air permit as the operator of the fuel-cell system.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "NMED's modeling review under permit NSR 10883 names Bloom the operator of the 2,275-stack fuel-cell system.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Supplies 2.45 GW of solid-oxide fuel cells in a deal the record puts at about $6–7 billion." }, { "text": "The switch to Bloom fuel cells from the original gas-turbine plan is dated April 27, 2026.", "date": "2026-04-27" }, { "text": "Oracle holds a $400 million warrant in Bloom." }, { "text": "Reported its first positive operating cash flow, about $73.6 million, in the first quarter of 2026.", "date": "2026" }, { "text": "Its lobbyists on the Secretary of State's registry are Scott Forrester and Brent Moore." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "2.45GW solid-oxide fuel cell supplier; ~$6-7B deal Under the live permit (NSR 10883) Bloom is the OPERATOR of the 2,275-stack fuel-cell system — no longer just the technology vendor and warrant-holder on the money side, but the named…", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — YGI modeling review ('Bloom Energy Corp (Bloom) will be the operator')", "url": "https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/Zjk1ZGJmOWM2YzhiYTJiYTUyZjYzMTA3MF8yMzYxODE~.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "supplies", "label": "Supplies", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC2", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bloom fuel cell microgrid (2.45 GW)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "depends-on", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC13", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Scandium supply-chain constraint ('Sixty-Ton Problem')", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "supplies-scandium-to", "label": "Supplied by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO25", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Sumitomo Metal Mining", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/sumitomo-metal-mining" }, { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "potential-supplier-to", "label": "Supplied by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO26", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Sunrise Energy Metals", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/sunrise-energy-metals" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "layer-5", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC93", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Five-layer value-extraction structure", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "stake-in", "label": "Owned by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJC101", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Oracle $400M Bloom warrant (synthetic supply-chain equity)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "milestone-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE58", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Bloom Q1 2026 first positive operating cash flow (~$73.6M)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "tenant-of", "raw": "anchor-customer-of", "label": "Has as tenant", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO63", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "AEP (American Electric Power)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/aep-american-electric-power" }, { "predicate": "tenant-of", "raw": "anchor-customer-of", "label": "Has as tenant", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle 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"Brent Moore", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brent-moore" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-25", "2026-09-18", "2026-09-21c" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO8", "type": "organization", "name": "Energy Transfer (Transwestern)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/energy-transfer-transwestern", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "hq": "Dallas, TX", "roles_in_project": [ "supplier" ], "key_people": [ "PJP127", "PJP144" ], "stake": "The Dallas pipeline company proposing the Green Chile lateral that would carry gas to the campus.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Filed the Green Chile pipeline at FERC on January 29, 2026, in docket CP26-80.", "date": "2026-01-29" }, { "text": "The State Land Office twice denied the pipeline's crossing of state trust land; the 30-day window to contest the second denial closed around August 13, 2026.", "date": "2026-08-13" }, { "text": "In August 2026 FERC filings, moved 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Its registered New Mexico lobbyists are Matthew A. 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"target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/affordable-nm-political-committee" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL203", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "What the project's companies gave, in the state's own filings (2025–26)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-13", "2026-08-14b", "2026-09-10", "2026-09-14c", "2026-12-03" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO9", "type": "organization", "name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "county", "roles_in_project": [ "approver", "litigant" ], "key_people": [ "PJP4", "PJP5", "PJP33", "PJP34", "PJP55", "PJP110" ], "stake": "The county body that approved $165 billion in industrial revenue bonds for the project and is a defendant in the suits over that vote.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "stance": { 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a Community Monitoring Committee by Resolution 2026-101 on August 11, 2026, seated it on September 22, 2026, and that day adopted open-meetings rules stricter than the law requires.", "date": "2026-09-22" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Approved $165B IRBs 4-1; defendant in multiple suits", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB inducement resolution of Aug. 26, 2025 (mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "New Mexico Environmental Law Center — Open Meetings Act complaint against Doña Ana County (Feb. 6, 2026)", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-Complaint-Open-Meetings-Act-Lawsuit-Exs.-1-3-endorsed_-02-06-26.pdf", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "Albuquerque Journal — legal challenges to Project Jupiter funding meet headwinds", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/legal-challenges-to-project-jupiter-funding-meet-headwinds/2901165", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Santa Fe New Mexican — judge dismisses Project Jupiter lawsuit, allows chance to refile", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/environment/judge-dismissed-project-jupiter-lawsuit-allows-chance-to-refile/article_58e04d4f-dca4-45e3-ab63-e3c7a750a8f9.html", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Santa Fe New Mexican — Doña Ana County approves $165 billion in bonds for massive AI data center", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/do-a-ana-county-approves-165-billion-in-bonds-for-massive-ai-data-center-near/article_29bdb65d-ada4-43c4-8a0f-ba54f5e2a1b9.html", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Albuquerque Journal — Doña Ana commissioners mull citizens committee to monitor Project Jupiter", "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/news/dona-ana-commissioners-mull-citizens-committee-to-monitor-project-jupiter/3096003", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Doña Ana County — agenda and full packet for the Sept. 19, 2025 commission meeting (mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/9.19.25.DACAgendaAndPacket.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "Doña Ana County — Ordinance No. 367-2025, IRB adoption, executed and recorded (mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ordinance-No.-367-2025-IRB-Adoption_ExecutedRecorded.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "Doña Ana County — Ordinance No. 368-2025, LEDA gross-receipts-tax share, executed and recorded (mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ordinance-No.-368-2025-LEDA-GRT-Share_-ExecutedRecorded.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "Doña Ana County — Ordinance No. 369-2025, LEDA building permit fees, executed and recorded (mirrored at haussamen.com)", "url": 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"target": "PJE7", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMFOG public-records lawsuit (Jun 22 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "against", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE7", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMFOG public-records lawsuit (Jun 22 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP33", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Gloria Gameros", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gloria-gameros" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP34", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Shannon Reynolds", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/shannon-reynolds" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP55", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Manuel A. Sanchez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/manuel-a-sanchez" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO96", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County government (staff)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-government-staff" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "corrects", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE72", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "County OMA corrective action (Oct 14 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP110", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Susie Kimble", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/susie-kimble" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "against", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE79", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "DOJ/AG complaint filed re OMA violations (Dec 8 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "by", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE74", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "County 'inducement resolution' (Aug 27 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "promised-by", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPR7", "target_type": "promise", "target_name": "An open, transparent public process.", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE2", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "IRB approval + closed session (Sept 19 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "chair-of", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP4", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/christopher-schaljo-hernandez" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "commissioner-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP5", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Susana Chaparro", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/susana-chaparro" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "resigned-from", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE80", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Commissioner Shannon Reynolds resigns (Dec 28 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "appointed", "raw": "appointed-to", "label": "Appointed", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE81", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Susie Kimble appointed to District 3 seat (Feb 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "defendant-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE89", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Motion to dismiss DENIED in the IRB suit; shells intervene (Mar 20 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "concealed-from", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC110", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "EQT institutional-PE layer (undisclosed)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "targets", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC119", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Electoral capture (Jupiter-connected figures seeking county offices)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "targets", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC73", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Move 4: Local-gov capture under time pressure", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "against", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE88", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMELC files the second OMA suit (Feb 6 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "governed-by", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPL1", "target_type": "place", "target_name": "Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, NM", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/place/santa-teresa-dona-ana-county-nm" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "commits", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL101", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "County committed to eminent-domain support and accelerated review (§4.5)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Concerns", "direction": "in", "target": "PJCL108", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "County itself is 'Plant Owner' on the pollution permits", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL128", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The county holds title during the bond term — and does not keep it", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subsidiary-of", "raw": "vehicle-for", "label": "Parent of", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO117", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "SAC III Acquisition Co., LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/sac-iii-acquisition-co-llc" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "created", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE126", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Community Monitoring Committee created (Resolution 2026-101, Aug 11 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE127", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "County ordered under outside fiscal oversight after state special audit (2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE149", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The annual jobs report arrives, two weeks late and eight pages long (Aug 15 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE150", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The county defers the monitoring-committee appointments to September 22 (Sept 8 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE157", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "One year after the bond vote: the monitoring committee is seated (Sept 22 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL201", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Oracle's contract runs 17.9 years; 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"https://projectjupiter.watch/who/john-rhoderick" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP71", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Meta Hirschl", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/meta-hirschl" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP72", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Zachary Ogaz", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/zachary-ogaz" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC102", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Keyes→Apaluma→NMED conflict nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "administers", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC118", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "HB 137 Strategic Water Supply Act ($75M state desal fund)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE26", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED 'all air permits delayed' budget notice (Jan 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "petitioner-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE27", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "EIB denies NMED fee-increase petition (Oct 2024)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE28", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED incomplete-determination letters / PSD near-miss (Dec 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE29", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Roper Concrete permit denied, EIB-reversed (2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE93", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED deems the Bloom fuel-cell application complete (Jun 3 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "studies", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC64", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Mesilla Basin brackish/desalination program", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "bypasses", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC86", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "EPA Title VI / environmental-justice pathway", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI4", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Captured regulator — NMED budget dependency", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#captured-regulator-nmed-budget-dependency" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP131", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Julia Kuhn", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/julia-kuhn" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP132", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Todd Hochman", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/todd-hochman" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP154", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Luis Lopez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/luis-lopez" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP158", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Sahil Kassanjee", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sahil-kassanjee" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE128", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Supreme Court stays the air proceeding (Aug 23 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE144", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "New Mexico awards $13 million in desalination contracts — none of it in the Mesilla basin (May 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE145", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Supreme Court denies both petitions and lifts both stays (Sept 17 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contractor-for", "label": "Retains", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO141", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Eastern Research Group, LLC (ERG)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/eastern-research-group-llc-erg" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP186", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Brian Yardman-Frank", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brian-yardman-frank" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Involves", "direction": "in", "target": "PJE153", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED amends its technical contractor's agreement to supply hearing officers (Sept 12 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "governs", "label": "Regulated or reviewed by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJD73", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NMED–ERG master contract No. 25-667-4091-44019, and the 2024 procurement behind it", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "governs", "label": "Regulated or reviewed by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJD74", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Amendment No. 01 — NMED adds a hearing-officer category to its technical contractor's agreement (Sept 12 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP189", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Cindy Hollenberg", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/cindy-hollenberg" }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "source-of", "label": "Authored or issued by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJCL199", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "NMED's answer to the bias motion: no evidence, a presumption of integrity, and articles that are hearsay", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL199", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "NMED's answer to the bias motion: no evidence, a presumption of integrity, and articles that are hearsay", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE156", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The first testimony notice after the stay (Sept 24 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO146", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Site Layer 1 LLC (Granite Renewables)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/site-layer-1-llc-granite-renewables" } ], "timeline": [ "2024-03-01", "2025-09-12", "2026-06-16", "2026-07-01", "2026-07-06", "2026-07-16", "2026-07-29", "2026-08-06", "2026-08-12", "2026-08-22", "2026-08-23", "2026-08-24", "2026-09-02b", "2026-09-03", "2026-09-14", "2026-09-17", "2026-09-18b", "2026-09-21", "2026-09-24d", "2026-11-23" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO11", "type": "organization", "name": "NM State Land Office", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-land-office", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "roles_in_project": [ "regulator" ], "key_people": [ "PJP3", "PJP143" ], "stake": "The state agency that twice refused to let the Green Chile pipeline cross state trust land.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Denied the pipeline's state-trust-land segment on March 20, 2026.", "date": "2026-03-20" }, { "text": "Energy Transfer's 30-day window to contest the second denial closed around August 13, 2026.", "date": "2026-08-13" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Denied pipeline state-trust-land segment Mar 20 2026", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "denied", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC4", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Green Chile pipeline (state-land crossing denied twice; rerouting)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE4", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "State Land Office pipeline denial (Mar 20 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP3", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Stephanie Garcia Richard", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/stephanie-garcia-richard" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP143", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Joey Keefe", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/joey-keefe" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-13" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO12", "type": "organization", "name": "FERC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/ferc", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "roles_in_project": [ "regulator" ], "stake": "The federal commission reviewing the Green Chile pipeline that would carry gas to the campus.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Energy Transfer filed the Green Chile pipeline with the commission on January 29, 2026, in docket CP26-80.", "date": "2026-01-29" }, { "text": "A FERC staff protest on the pipeline is dated April 13, 2026, and environmental groups filed protests on April 15, 2026." }, { "text": "Its environmental assessment of the 17.77-mile line, published September 10, 2026, found no significant impact and opened comment through October 5.", "date": "2026-09-10" }, { "text": "In August 2026 filings before the commission, Energy Transfer moved the pipeline's in-service date to February 2027.", "date": "2026-08-14" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Reviewing the Green Chile pipeline (CP26-80); its staff filed a protest Apr 13 2026 — a protest, not a denial", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "addressed", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE31", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Winter Storm Uri gas-electric cascade (Feb 2021)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "under-review-by", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO99", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Green Chile Ventures LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/green-chile-ventures-llc" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed-with", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE91", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Green Chile pipeline filed at FERC (CP26-80, Jan 29 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE5", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "FERC staff protest on Green Chile pipeline (Apr 13 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed-with", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE92", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Environmental groups protest at FERC (Apr 15 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO13", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Economic Development Dept (NMEDD)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-economic-development-dept-nmedd", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "roles_in_project": [ "economic-development" ], "key_people": [ "PJP53", "PJP19", "PJP91", "PJP141", "PJP150" ], "stake": "The state economic-development department that administers the project's LEDA incentives and signed the state's MOU with BorderPlex.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Party to the BorderPlex–State of New Mexico MOU of February 25, 2025.", "date": "2025-02-25" }, { "text": "Administers the LEDA incentives the county approved for the project." }, { "text": "The record credits it with a study of more than $600 million in gross-receipts tax from the project." }, { "text": "Published a BorderPlex Digital document in March 2026.", "date": "2026-03" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Incentive issuer; $600M+ GRT study", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "assessed", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD11", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "BorderPlex–State of NM MOU (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "secretary-designate-of", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP53", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rob Black", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rob-black" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP91", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Bruce Krasnow", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/bruce-krasnow" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "former-secretary-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP19", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Alicia Keyes", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/alicia-keyes" }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "administers", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC8", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "LEDA incentives", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "published", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD37", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NM EDD — BorderPlex Digital document (PDF, Mar 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI1", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Revolving door — Alicia Keyes", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#revolving-door-alicia-keyes" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI3", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Dual role — the dealmaker holds the purse", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#dual-role-the-dealmaker-holds-the-purse" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP141", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Chris Chaffin", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/chris-chaffin" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP150", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Yiwei Chen", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/yiwei-chen" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO14", "type": "organization", "name": "Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/camino-real-regional-utility-authority-crrua", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "utility", "roles_in_project": [ "utility" ], "stake": "The utility that supplies the campus's potable water, whose past arsenic-treatment failures are part of the water record.", "jurisdiction": "regional", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Found in December 2023 to be bypassing three of its four arsenic treatment plants, with 58 deficiencies in the 2023 sanitary survey.", "date": "2023-12" }, { "text": "NMED proposed a $251,580 penalty on March 1, 2024; the case settled on February 11, 2026 for $189,000.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-02-11" }, { "text": "All four plants have been compliant since January 2025, with five consecutive quarterly passes through January 2026 and 56 of 58 deficiencies corrected." }, { "text": "Discolored-water complaints in Santa Teresa persisted into August 2026.", "date": "2026-08" }, { "text": "Serves about 19,000 people in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The utility that supplies the campus's potable water — and the one whose arsenic-treatment failure is the cautionary tale under the whole water story: three of four treatment plants bypassed for over a year, 58 deficiencies, a $251,580 proposed fine settled for $189,000 in February 2026. All four plants have been compliant since January 2025 — a documented past failure with a live residual: discolored-water complaints in Santa Teresa persisted into August 2026.", "sources": [ { "label": "CRRUA — NMED settlement announcement", "url": "https://www.crrua.org/node/109", "kind": "primary-source" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "original-water-provider-for", "label": "Supplies", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC5", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Closed-loop cooling system", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "co-owns-rights-with", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO103", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Santa Teresa Capital, LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/santa-teresa-capital-llc" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE116", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED–CRRUA arsenic settlement: $189,000 (Feb 11 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2023-12", "2024-03-01", "2026-02-11" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO15", "type": "organization", "name": "New Mexico State University (NMSU)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-mexico-state-university-nmsu", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "university", "roles_in_project": [ "research" ], "key_people": [ "PJP15", "PJP20", "PJP49", "PJP50", "PJP89", "PJP90" ], "stake": "The state university that signed a desalination advisory agreement with BorderPlex, including a term requiring it to notify the developer of public-records requests.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Signed the desalination advisory agreement with BorderPlex on February 25, 2025.", "date": "2025-02-25" }, { "text": "Under a nondisclosure agreement, the university was required to notify BorderPlex of records requests." }, { "text": "Conducts desalination research, including on the Mesilla Basin brackish-water program." }, { "text": "Hosted a September 18, 2026 career fair where the project's partners recruited students without using the Project Jupiter name, Searchlight reported.", "date": "2026-09-18" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Desalination research; NDA required notifying BorderPlex of records requests", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "researches", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC6", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Desalination plant", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "researches", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC64", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Mesilla Basin brackish/desalination program", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP15", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Valerio Ferme", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/valerio-ferme" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contracts", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD13", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NMSU–BorderPlex desal advisory agreement (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP49", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Alisha A. Giron", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/alisha-a-giron" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP50", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Barbara Gonzales", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/barbara-gonzales" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP89", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Luis Cifuentes", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/luis-cifuentes" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP90", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Patricia Sullivan", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/patricia-sullivan" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "works-for", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP20", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Dr. Pei Xu", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/dr-pei-xu" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC72", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Move 3: Academic capture / records interception", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "signed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE40", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMSU–BorderPlex desal advisory agreement signed (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI7", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Academic capture — NMSU's records-NDA", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#academic-capture-nmsu-s-records-nda" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE144", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "New Mexico awards $13 million in desalination contracts — none of it in the Mesilla basin (May 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE152", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Project Jupiter's partners recruit at NMSU — without saying Project Jupiter (Sept 18 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-18" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO16", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Environmental Law Center (NMELC)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environmental-law-center-nmelc", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "nonprofit", "roles_in_project": [ "litigant", "legal-counsel" ], "key_people": [ "PJP41", "PJP63", "PJP157" ], "stake": "The public-interest law firm challenging the county's bond approval in court and contesting the air permit, representing Sunland Park and Santa Teresa residents.", "stance": { "position": "opposes", "src": [ 0 ], "basis": "Filed Open Meetings Act suits seeking to void the county's bond ordinances for the project." }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "Filed the first Open Meetings Act suit on October 17, 2025, for the Empowerment Congress and two residents, seeking to void Ordinances 367 and 368.", "date": "2025-10-17" }, { "text": "Moved for a stay in the ordinance litigation on October 21, 2025.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025-10-21" }, { "text": "Filed a second Open Meetings Act suit against the county on February 6, 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-02-06" }, { "text": "A judge denied the motion to dismiss the IRB suit on March 20, 2026.", "src": [ 4 ], "date": "2026-03-20" }, { "text": "Sent NMED a 16-organization letter in January 2026 demanding transparency on the air permits.", "src": [ 3 ], "date": "2026-01" }, { "text": "With the Center for Biological Diversity, moved on August 19, 2026 to disqualify hearing officer Max Shepherd, who recused on August 22; the recusal was not a finding of bias.", "date": "2026-08-19" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Two active lawsuits; represents Sunland Park / Santa Teresa", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Environmental Law Center — Open Meetings Act complaint against Doña Ana County (Feb. 6, 2026)", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-Complaint-Open-Meetings-Act-Lawsuit-Exs.-1-3-endorsed_-02-06-26.pdf", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "NM Environmental Law Center — motion for stay in the Project Jupiter IRB litigation (Oct. 21, 2025)", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Motion-for-Stay-with-attachments-10-21-25.pdf", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "NM Environmental Law Center — initial letter regarding the YGI Microgrid air-permit application", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Initial-Letter-re_-YGI-Microgrid-.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "NM Environmental Law Center — 16-organization letter demanding public transparency on the Project Jupiter air permits (Jan. 2026)", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/New-Mexico-Organizations-Demand-Public-Transparency-Access-Concerning-Project-Jupiter-Air-Quality-Permits.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "Heath Haussamen — \"Judge rejects motion to dismiss Project Jupiter lawsuit\" (Mar. 20, 2026)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2026/03/20/judge-rejects-motion-to-dismiss-project-jupiter-lawsuit/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "litigates-against", "raw": "litigant-against", "label": "In litigation against", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO9", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "challenges", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE2", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "IRB approval + closed session (Sept 19 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "located-at", "raw": "represents-community-of", "label": "Located at", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPL1", "target_type": "place", "target_name": "Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, NM", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/place/santa-teresa-dona-ana-county-nm" }, { "predicate": "opposes", "raw": "resists", "label": "Opposes", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC69", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "The 8-move capture playbook (framework)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "deploys", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC83", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Intervention toolkit (six tool categories)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "represents", "raw": "attorney-for", "label": "Represented by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP41", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Kacey J. Hovden", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/kacey-j-hovden" }, { "predicate": "represents", "raw": "attorney-for", "label": "Represented by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP63", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Maslyn Locke", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/maslyn-locke" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "former-plaintiff-with", "label": "Has as party", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO90", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Empowerment Congress", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/empowerment-congress" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "plaintiff-with", "label": "Has as party", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP104", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Daisy Maldonado", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/daisy-maldonado" }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "issued", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE76", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMELC demands Reynolds cease doxxing (Sept 8 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE88", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMELC files the second OMA suit (Feb 6 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "prevailed-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE89", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Motion to dismiss DENIED in the IRB suit; shells intervene (Mar 20 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "tests", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD29", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NM County Industrial Revenue Bond Act (NMSA §§4-59-1…16)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP157", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Eric Jantz", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/eric-jantz" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE136", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The hearing officer recuses himself (Aug 22 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Involves", "direction": "in", "target": "PJCL187", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "One unit was tested. The permit scales it to 2,462 megawatts.", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-09-19", "2025-10-17", "2025-10-21b", "2026-02-06", "2026-03-20", "2026-08-10c", "2026-08-19", "2026-08-22" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO17", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Foundation for Open Government (NMFOG)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-foundation-for-open-government-nmfog", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "nonprofit", "roles_in_project": [ "litigant" ], "key_people": [ "PJP44" ], "stake": "The open-government nonprofit that sued Doña Ana County over public records about the project.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Filed an Inspection of Public Records Act lawsuit against the county on June 22, 2026.", "date": "2026-06-22" }, { "text": "Challenges the county's use of the records law's terrorism exemption." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Filed IPRA public-records lawsuit Jun 22 2026", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "litigates-against", "raw": "litigant-against", "label": "In litigation against", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO9", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE7", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMFOG public-records lawsuit (Jun 22 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "opposes", "raw": "resists", "label": "Opposes", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC69", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "The 8-move capture playbook (framework)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "deploys", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC83", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Intervention toolkit (six tool categories)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP44", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Amanda Lavin", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/amanda-lavin" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "challenges", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD30", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "IPRA §14-2-1(A)(8) — the terrorism exemption, as used", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO18", "type": "organization", "name": "Stargate initiative", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stargate-initiative", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "joint-venture", "key_people": [ "PJP10" ], "stake": "The $500 billion OpenAI–Oracle–SoftBank joint venture of which Project Jupiter is one of five nodes.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Announced at the White House on January 21, 2025 as an AI-infrastructure investment of up to $500 billion by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-01-21" }, { "text": "Stargate LLC was founded in Delaware on January 21, 2025.", "date": "2025-01-21" }, { "text": "Project Jupiter was named a Stargate node in September 2025.", "date": "2025-09" }, { "text": "Its other sites in the record are Abilene, Shackelford County and Milam County in Texas, and Lordstown, Ohio." }, { "text": "MGX of Abu Dhabi is also a partner, and NVIDIA supplies its compute stack." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "$500B JV (OpenAI/Oracle/SoftBank); Jupiter is 1 of 5 nodes", "sources": [ { "label": "CBS News — Trump announces up to $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure investment (Jan. 21, 2025)", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-announces-private-sector-ai-infrastructure-investment/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "El Paso Matters — explainer on Project Jupiter and the Stargate initiative", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/25/stargate-open-ai-oracle-project-jupiter-data-center-dona-ana-new-mexico-el-paso-texas/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partner-in", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partner-in", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO2", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "OpenAI", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/openai" }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partner-in", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO3", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "SoftBank", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/softbank" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "in-tension-with", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJTN3", "target_type": "tension", "target_name": "AI competitiveness vs. community consent", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "concurrent-with", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE10", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Trump revokes Biden AI-safety EO 14110 (Jan 20 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "arises-from", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC19", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Antitrust monopoly fragility", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subsidiary-of", "raw": "part-of-stack", "label": "Parent of", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO24", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NVIDIA", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nvidia" }, { "predicate": "subsidiary-of", "raw": "part-of-stack", "label": "Parent of", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "threatens", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE14", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "IRGC threat video targets Abu Dhabi Stargate node (Apr 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "characterizes", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC30", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Stargate JV legal structure (Delaware LLC)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "founds", "label": "Founded by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJE17", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Stargate LLC founded (Delaware, Jan 21 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "chairs", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP10", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Masayoshi Son", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/masayoshi-son" }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partner-in", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO32", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "MGX (Abu Dhabi)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/mgx-abu-dhabi" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "characterizes", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC40", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Stargate site-selection playbook", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "in-tension-with", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJTN13", "target_type": "tension", "target_name": "Founding framing (quantum / $5B trade campus) vs. later (Oracle/OpenAI $165B Stargate)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "announces", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE83", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "White House Stargate announcement (Jan 21 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "designation-under", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE3", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Named a Stargate node (Sept 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "located-at", "raw": "site-of", "label": "Located at", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPL3", "target_type": "place", "target_name": "Abilene, TX (Taylor County)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/place/abilene-tx-taylor-county" }, { "predicate": "located-at", "raw": "site-of", "label": "Located at", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPL4", "target_type": "place", "target_name": "Shackelford County, TX", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/place/shackelford-county-tx" }, { "predicate": "located-at", "raw": "site-of", "label": "Located at", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPL5", "target_type": "place", "target_name": "Milam County, TX", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/place/milam-county-tx" }, { "predicate": "located-at", "raw": "site-of", "label": "Located at", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPL6", "target_type": "place", "target_name": "Lordstown, OH", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/place/lordstown-oh" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO19", "type": "organization", "name": "Environmental coalition (CBD / Sierra Club / Food & Water Watch)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/environmental-coalition-cbd-sierra-club-food-water-watch", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "community-group", "roles_in_project": [ "intervenor", "litigant" ], "key_people": [ "PJP146", "PJP147" ], "stake": "A coalition of the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club and Food & Water Watch that has protested the Green Chile pipeline and challenged the campus's emergency well.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Filed protests at FERC against the Green Chile pipeline on April 15, 2026.", "date": "2026-04-15" }, { "text": "The Center for Biological Diversity filed its protest of the emergency-well application on the January 9, 2026 deadline, one of 32 protests on file.", "date": "2026-01-09" }, { "text": "The Center's 151-page mandamus petition of August 20, 2026 cited the State Engineer's meter record: 103,620,944 gallons drawn from the new well between April 14 and July 31, 2026.", "date": "2026-08-20" }, { "text": "The Supreme Court stayed the emergency-well authorization on August 23, 2026, then denied the petition and lifted the stay on September 17, 2026.", "date": "2026-09-17" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Filed FERC protests against the Green Chile pipeline", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "opposes", "raw": "protested", "label": "Opposes", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC4", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Green Chile pipeline (state-land crossing denied twice; rerouting)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE92", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Environmental groups protest at FERC (Apr 15 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP146", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Alexa Reynaud", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/alexa-reynaud" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP147", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Camilla Feibelman", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/camilla-feibelman" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE129", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Supreme Court stays the emergency well authorization (Aug 23 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "evidence-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL150", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "More than 103 million gallons have been pumped from the emergency well since April 2026", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "evidence-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL151", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "CBD argues the October 2025 authorization required advertisement and a hearing that never happened", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "evidence-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL152", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "A protest filed on the deadline sat seven months without a docketed hearing while the well pumped", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-01-09", "2026-08-01", "2026-08-20", "2026-08-23" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO20", "type": "organization", "name": "CFIUS", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/cfius", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "roles_in_project": [ "oversight" ], "stake": "The federal committee on foreign investment, whose jurisdiction the record says reaches the campus.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Holds jurisdiction under FIRRMA over critical technology, infrastructure and data, and over real estate near military bases." }, { "text": "Acted in the Suirui–EMCORE forced divestiture of January 2026.", "date": "2026-01" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Committee on Foreign Investment in the US; FIRRMA jurisdiction (critical tech/infra/data + real estate near bases)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "has-jurisdiction-over", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "in-tension-with", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJTN6", "target_type": "tension", "target_name": "Allied-investor fast-track vs. SoftBank PRC portfolio exposure", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "invokes", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC87", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "CFIUS real-estate referral pathway (MGX stake)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE13", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Suirui-EMCORE forced divestiture (Jan 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC12", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "CFIUS review gap", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO21", "type": "organization", "name": "US DOJ — Data Security Program", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/us-doj-data-security-program", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "roles_in_project": [ "regulator" ], "stake": "The Justice Department's Data Security Program, which the record ties to a geolocation-compliance risk for the campus.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The program took effect on April 8, 2025.", "date": "2025-04-08" }, { "text": "Its GRLD list covers 736 geofenced sites." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "DSP effective 2025-04-08; GRLD list of 736 geofenced sites; enforcement pause ended 2025-07-08", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "enforces", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC14", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "DOJ DSP geolocation compliance risk", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE12", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "DOJ Data Security Program takes effect (Apr 8 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE15", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "DOJ DSP enforcement pause ended (Jul 8 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO22", "type": "organization", "name": "US Department of Defense / Pentagon", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/us-department-of-defense-pentagon", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "military", "stake": "The federal defense department, which controls national-defense areas along the border and has no public security review of the campus on record.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Border military corridors were designated national defense areas in April 2025.", "date": "2025-04" }, { "text": "Fort Bliss is its installation; Carlyle Group is its partner on a proposed 3 GW Army data center there." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "No public DOD security review of Jupiter on record; controls border national-defense areas", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "oversight-absent-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "located-at", "raw": "installation-of", "label": "Located at", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPL2", "target_type": "place", "target_name": "Fort Bliss", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/place/fort-bliss" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE16", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Border military corridors / national defense areas designated (Apr 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partner-of", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO27", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Carlyle Group", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/carlyle-group" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO23", "type": "organization", "name": "CISA", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/cisa", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "stake": "The federal cybersecurity agency, which has acknowledged no public critical-infrastructure designation for the campus.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "No public critical-infrastructure designation for Jupiter acknowledged", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "oversight-absent-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO24", "type": "organization", "name": "NVIDIA", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nvidia", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "supplier" ], "stake": "The GPU supplier in the Stargate compute stack for the campus.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Supplies H100, B200 and later GPUs, fabricated by TSMC." }, { "text": "Announced on August 8, 2026 that it would invest up to $3 billion in Lancium.", "date": "2026-08-08" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "GPU supplier (H100/B200+); TSMC-fabricated; part of the Stargate compute stack", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "supplies-gpus-to", "label": "Supplies", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subsidiary-of", "raw": "part-of-stack", "label": "Subsidiary or vehicle of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO18", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Stargate initiative", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stargate-initiative" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC19", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Antitrust monopoly fragility", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE133", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Nvidia to invest up to $3 billion in Lancium (Aug 8 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-20" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO25", "type": "organization", "name": "Sumitomo Metal Mining", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/sumitomo-metal-mining", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "The record's inferred scandium supplier to Bloom Energy, the campus's fuel-cell supplier.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Produces about 7–8 tonnes a year of scandium oxide from a high-pressure acid leach operation in the Philippines, below what the record estimates Bloom needs." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Inferred Bloom scandium supplier; ~7-8 t/yr oxide from Philippines HPAL — below Bloom's need", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "supplies-scandium-to", "label": "Supplies", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO7", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bloom Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bloom-energy" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO26", "type": "organization", "name": "Sunrise Energy Metals", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/sunrise-energy-metals", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "An Australian scandium developer the record lists as a potential supplier to Bloom Energy, with no binding offtake announced.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Its Syerston project would be the first primary-mine source of scandium, at about 60 tonnes a year." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Australia; Syerston first primary-mine scandium (~60 tpa) — no binding Bloom offtake announced", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "potential-supplier-to", "label": "Supplies", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO7", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bloom Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bloom-energy" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO27", "type": "organization", "name": "Carlyle Group", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/carlyle-group", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "stake": "A partner on a proposed 3 GW Army data center at Fort Bliss, part of the border AI-infrastructure cluster the record tracks alongside Project Jupiter.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The Fort Bliss project would draw grid power from El Paso Electric." }, { "text": "Its partner on the project is the Department of Defense." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Partner on proposed 3 GW Army data center at Fort Bliss", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "includes", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC20", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "AI-military infrastructure cluster (border)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "develops", "raw": "develops-at", "label": "Develops or operates", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPL2", "target_type": "place", "target_name": "Fort Bliss", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/place/fort-bliss" }, { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "draws-grid-power-from", "label": "Supplied by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO38", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "El Paso Electric (EPE)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/el-paso-electric-epe" }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partner-of", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO22", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "US Department of Defense / Pentagon", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/us-department-of-defense-pentagon" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO28", "type": "organization", "name": "Meta", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/meta", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "Developer of a roughly $10 billion El Paso data center, the third node in the border AI cluster the record tracks.", "jurisdiction": "private", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "~$10B El Paso data center — third node in the border AI cluster", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "includes", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC20", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "AI-military infrastructure cluster (border)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "develops", "raw": "develops-near", "label": "Develops or operates", "direction": "out", "target": "PJPL1", "target_type": "place", "target_name": "Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, NM", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/place/santa-teresa-dona-ana-county-nm" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL92", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Meta's El Paso data center holds a 750,000 gal/day permit on the same aquifer", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO29", "type": "organization", "name": "NERC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nerc", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "stake": "The grid-reliability body whose CIP cybersecurity standards, the record says, do not reach the campus's behind-the-meter microgrid.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Addressed the February 2021 Winter Storm Uri gas-electric cascade.", "date": "2021-02" }, { "text": "The record places the campus's off-grid control systems outside its jurisdiction." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "CIP cybersecurity standards; behind-the-meter microgrid falls outside its jurisdiction", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "outside-jurisdiction-of", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC11", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Behind-the-meter power independence", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "addressed", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE31", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Winter Storm Uri gas-electric cascade (Feb 2021)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "outside-jurisdiction-of", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC16", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Off-grid ICS/SCADA cyber exposure", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO30", "type": "organization", "name": "US Commerce Department", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/us-commerce-department", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "roles_in_project": [ "regulator" ], "stake": "The federal department whose export-control recalibration flags concentrations of GPUs as a diversion risk.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The Bureau of Industry and Security is part of the department." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Export-control recalibration flags GPU concentration as diversion risk", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "regulates", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC17", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "GPU concentration / diversion risk", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO37", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bureau-of-industry-and-security-bis" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO31", "type": "organization", "name": "IRGC (Iran)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/irgc-iran", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "military", "stake": "Iran's Revolutionary Guard, whose April 2026 threat video designated Stargate's Abu Dhabi node for targeting.", "jurisdiction": "international", "key_facts": [ { "text": "An April 2026 threat video designated the Abu Dhabi Stargate node for targeting.", "date": "2026-04" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Apr 2026 threat video designated the Abu Dhabi Stargate node for targeting", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE14", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "IRGC threat video targets Abu Dhabi Stargate node (Apr 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO32", "type": "organization", "name": "MGX (Abu Dhabi)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/mgx-abu-dhabi", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "roles_in_project": [ "investor" ], "stake": "The Abu Dhabi sovereign investor that is the fourth equity partner in Stargate, the joint venture behind the campus.", "jurisdiction": "international", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Holds roughly 10% of Stargate's equity." }, { "text": "A non-NATO sovereign investor; the record identifies a CFIUS real-estate referral pathway tied to its stake." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "4th Stargate equity partner (~10%); non-NATO sovereign; documented China intel relationships (Euromedmonitor concern)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partner-in", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO18", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Stargate initiative", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stargate-initiative" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "triggers", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC12", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "CFIUS review gap", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC30", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Stargate JV legal structure (Delaware LLC)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "targets", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC87", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "CFIUS real-estate referral pathway (MGX stake)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO33", "type": "organization", "name": "Apollo Global Management", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/apollo-global-management", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "stake": "The private-equity firm that bought STACK Infrastructure's European business, narrowing STACK to U.S. hyperscale work.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Acquired STACK's European colocation business from Blue Owl in April 2025.", "date": "2025-04" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Acquired STACK's European colocation business (Apr 2025), narrowing STACK to US hyperscale", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "acquired-european-business-from", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO6", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE19", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "STACK European carve-out to Apollo (Apr 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO34", "type": "organization", "name": "SoftBank lender syndicate (Mizuho / Goldman / JPMorgan)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/softbank-lender-syndicate-mizuho-goldman-jpmorgan", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "roles_in_project": [ "lender" ], "stake": "The banks behind SoftBank's $10 billion margin loan against its OpenAI stake.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Backs SoftBank's $10 billion margin loan against its OpenAI stake, dated July 1, 2026.", "date": "2026-07-01" }, { "text": "Mizuho also provided the first $10 billion Stargate tranche." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Backing the $10B OpenAI-stake margin loan; Mizuho also first $10B Stargate tranche", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "finances", "raw": "finances", "label": "Finances", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO3", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "SoftBank", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/softbank" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE25", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "SoftBank $10B margin loan vs OpenAI stake (Jul 1 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO35", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Environmental Improvement Board (EIB)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environmental-improvement-board-eib", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "roles_in_project": [ "oversight" ], "stake": "The state board that rules on air-quality fees and appeals, whose decisions shape NMED's capacity to review permits like the campus's.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Denied NMED's fee-increase petition in October 2024, citing insufficient evidence.", "date": "2024-10" }, { "text": "Reversed NMED's denial of a Roper Concrete permit on appeal in 2025.", "date": "2025" }, { "text": "Approved a historic air-fee increase on April 17, 2026, effective June 1, 2026.", "date": "2026-04-17" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Denied NMED's fee-increase petition ('insufficient evidence'); reversed the Roper denial on appeal", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE27", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "EIB denies NMED fee-increase petition (Oct 2024)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "reversed", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE29", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Roper Concrete permit denied, EIB-reversed (2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE39", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "EIB approves historic air-fee increase (Apr 17 2026, eff Jun 1 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO36", "type": "organization", "name": "NM extractive-industry lobby (Mining Assn + IPANM)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-extractive-industry-lobby-mining-assn-ipanm", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "community-group", "stake": "The New Mexico Mining Association and Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico, which successfully contested NMED's fee schedule.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Their challenge led to the Environmental Improvement Board's October 2024 denial of NMED's fee-increase petition.", "date": "2024-10" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NM Mining Association + Independent Petroleum Association of NM; successfully contested NMED fee schedule", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "forced", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE27", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "EIB denies NMED fee-increase petition (Oct 2024)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "aggravates", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC32", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "NMED permitting institutional crisis", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO37", "type": "organization", "name": "Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bureau-of-industry-and-security-bis", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "parent": "PJO30", "roles_in_project": [ "regulator" ], "stake": "The Commerce Department bureau that administers export controls and has not addressed AI-model-weight export jurisdiction in foreign-trade-zone settings.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Holds authority under the Export Administration Regulations." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "EAR authority; has not addressed AI-model-weight export jurisdiction in FTZ environments", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "has-jurisdiction-over", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC38", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "FTZ data-sovereignty / EAR-ITAR ambiguity", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO30", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "US Commerce Department", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/us-commerce-department" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO38", "type": "organization", "name": "El Paso Electric (EPE)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/el-paso-electric-epe", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "utility", "roles_in_project": [ "utility" ], "key_people": [ "PJP13" ], "stake": "The regional grid utility that, per the governor's February 2025 release, worked closely with BorderPlex for two years before the project was announced.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The governor's February 25, 2025 release says the utility “worked closely with BorderPlex over the last two years.”", "date": "2025-02-25" }, { "text": "Its CEO, Kelly Tomblin, is Vice Chair of the Borderplex Alliance." }, { "text": "Went private in a $4.3 billion buyout by the JPMorgan-tied Infrastructure Investments Fund that closed July 29, 2020, after 73 years on the public market.", "date": "2020-07-29" }, { "text": "Issued a 2026 New Mexico all-source request for 100–400 MW and a 2026–2035 expansion plan with $308 million in resiliency spending." }, { "text": "The county's chair has said avoiding demand on El Paso Electric was written into the community benefits agreement.", "date": "2026-09-08" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "El Paso Electric — grid-interconnection utility; CEO Tomblin is Vice Chair of the Borderplex Alliance.", "sources": [ { "label": "El Paso Electric — 2024 Sustainability Report (FERC Form 1)", "url": "https://www.epelectric.com/el-paso-electric/assets/files/corporate-sustainability-reports-2024/inc/html/18.html", "kind": "primary-source" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "supplies-gas-to", "label": "Supplied by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO40", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG) pipeline", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/el-paso-natural-gas-epng-pipeline" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "couples", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC54", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Firm-vs-interruptible pipeline capacity competition", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "afflicts", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC56", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Indirect grid stress on El Paso Electric", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "afflicts", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC60", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "EPE capacity crisis / Fort Bliss cluster grid draw", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "draws-grid-power-from", "label": "Supplies", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO27", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Carlyle Group", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/carlyle-group" }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partnered-with", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP13", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Kelly Tomblin", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/kelly-tomblin" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC106", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Borderplex Alliance naming nexus (legitimacy laundering)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE33", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "EPE 2026 NM All-Source RFP (100-400 MW)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE34", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "EPE 2026-2035 Expansion Plan / $308M resiliency (Dec 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "names", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD12", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Albuquerque Business First announcement (Mar 20 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "bypasses", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC11", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Behind-the-meter power independence", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2020-03-11", "2020-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO39", "type": "organization", "name": "Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/public-service-company-of-new-mexico-pnm", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "utility", "stake": "New Mexico's largest utility, which competes with the campus for gas on the same Permian spot market.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Runs gas peakers supplied from the Permian and San Juan basins and buys on the Waha spot market." }, { "text": "Receives gas from the El Paso Natural Gas system, which also feeds El Paso Electric and the campus." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NM's largest utility; gas peakers off Permian + San Juan; competes on same Waha spot market", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "supplies-gas-to", "label": "Supplied by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO40", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG) pipeline", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/el-paso-natural-gas-epng-pipeline" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "couples", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC54", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Firm-vs-interruptible pipeline capacity competition", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "bypasses", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC11", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Behind-the-meter power independence", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO40", "type": "organization", "name": "El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG) pipeline", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/el-paso-natural-gas-epng-pipeline", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "supplier" ], "stake": "The Permian-westbound gas pipeline system whose shared capacity feeds El Paso Electric, PNM and the campus.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "A 10,140-mile system with shared firm and interruptible capacity." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "10,140-mi Permian-westbound system; shared firm/interruptible capacity feeding EPE, PNM, and Jupiter", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "supplies-gas-to", "label": "Supplies", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "supplies-gas-to", "label": "Supplies", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO38", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "El Paso Electric (EPE)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/el-paso-electric-epe" }, { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "supplies-gas-to", "label": "Supplies", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO39", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/public-service-company-of-new-mexico-pnm" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "arises-from", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC54", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Firm-vs-interruptible pipeline capacity competition", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO41", "type": "organization", "name": "East Daley Analytics", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/east-daley-analytics", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "research" ], "stake": "An energy analytics firm that mapped the West Texas AI energy corridor and projects the Desert Southwest pipeline as the campus's long-term gas supply.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Projects the Desert Southwest pipeline in service in the fourth quarter of 2029." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Mapped the West-Texas AI energy corridor; projects Desert Southwest as Jupiter's long-term supply (Q4 2029)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "projects", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE37", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Desert Southwest Pipeline in service (Oct 2029, projected)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO42", "type": "organization", "name": "Kinder Morgan", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/kinder-morgan", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "A pipeline operator whose Gulf Coast Express expansion is one of the Permian relief lines the record tracks.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Its Gulf Coast Express expansion adds 0.57 Bcf a day, expected mid-2026." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Gulf Coast Express expansion (+0.57 Bcf/d, mid-2026)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "develops", "raw": "operates", "label": "Develops or operates", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE36", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Permian relief pipelines in service (Q4 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO43", "type": "organization", "name": "WhiteWater / WPC JV", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/whitewater-wpc-jv", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "joint-venture", "stake": "The joint venture behind the Blackcomb pipeline, one of the Permian relief lines the record tracks.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The 2.5 Bcf-a-day Blackcomb pipeline slipped from the third to the fourth quarter of 2026." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Blackcomb pipeline (2.5 Bcf/d, slipped Q3→Q4 2026)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "develops", "raw": "operates", "label": "Develops or operates", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE35", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Blackcomb pipeline slips Q3→Q4 2026", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "develops", "raw": "operates", "label": "Develops or operates", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE36", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Permian relief pipelines in service (Q4 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO44", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Energy, Minerals & Natural Resources Dept (EMNRD)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-energy-minerals-natural-resources-dept-emnrd", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "stake": "A state department that is a party to the February 2025 BorderPlex–State of New Mexico MOU.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "MOU state party", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD11", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "BorderPlex–State of NM MOU (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO45", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Office of the State Engineer (OSE)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-office-of-the-state-engineer-ose", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "roles_in_project": [ "regulator" ], "key_people": [ "PJP32", "PJP166", "PJP149" ], "stake": "The state water agency that authorized the emergency construction well for the campus and is a party to the state's MOU with BorderPlex.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Issued an emergency authorization on October 23, 2025 for replacement well LRG-03150-POD 50, two days after the request, signed for District IV by Deputy District Manager JR Hennessey.", "date": "2025-10-23" }, { "text": "Under § 72-12-22, drilling proceeded during review; 32 protests were on file by the January 9, 2026 deadline.", "date": "2026-01-09" }, { "text": "Wrote on April 16, 2026 that the protested application had gone to its Administrative Litigation Unit; as of August 20, 2026, no hearing had been docketed.", "date": "2026-04-16" }, { "text": "Its meter record shows 103,620,944 gallons drawn from the new well between April 14 and July 31, 2026.", "date": "2026-07-31" }, { "text": "State Engineer Elizabeth Anderson answered on August 28, 2026 that the construction water comes from a verified, pre-existing right and “is not a new depletion of water in the Lower Rio Grande.”", "date": "2026-08-28" }, { "text": "The Supreme Court stayed the authorization on August 23, 2026, then denied the petition and lifted the stay on September 17, 2026.", "date": "2026-09-17" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "MOU state party; manages Santa Teresa brackish-resource investigation + water-rights processing", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD11", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "BorderPlex–State of NM MOU (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "investigates", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC64", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Mesilla Basin brackish/desalination program", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP32", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Elizabeth K. Anderson", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/elizabeth-k-anderson" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "cites", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL1", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Actual water use ~1M gal/day (contested)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP149", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Nathaniel Chakeres", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/nathaniel-chakeres" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL138", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Nothing in the decree reconciles a new industrial groundwater user with the retirement obligation", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL137", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "New Mexico must retire 18,200 acre-feet a year of depletion in this basin", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP166", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "JR Hennessey", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jr-hennessey" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE129", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Supreme Court stays the emergency well authorization (Aug 23 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "issued-by", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD54", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "OSE Emergency Authorization to Drill and Use Replacement Well LRG-03150-POD 50 (Oct 23 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE145", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Supreme Court denies both petitions and lifts both stays (Sept 17 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-10-23", "2025-10", "2026-01-09", "2026-04-16", "2026-05-26b", "2026-07-29", "2026-08-20", "2026-08-23", "2026-08-28", "2026-09-02b", "2026-09-17" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO46", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-bureau-of-geology-mineral-resources", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "roles_in_project": [ "research" ], "stake": "A state research bureau that reviewed 17 regions for deep brackish-water potential under the state's MOU with BorderPlex.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Reviewed 17 regions for deep brackish potential (MOU)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "assessed", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC64", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Mesilla Basin brackish/desalination program", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO47", "type": "organization", "name": "US Economic Development Administration (EDA)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/us-economic-development-administration-eda", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "stake": "The federal agency whose Quantum Tech Hub award is the data-center rationale stated in the state's MOU with BorderPlex.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Awarded about $41 million to the Elevate Quantum Tech Hub, a Colorado–New Mexico consortium, on July 2, 2024, one of 12 Tech Hubs.", "date": "2024-07-02" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "EDA awarded ~$41M to the Elevate Quantum Tech Hub (CO-NM consortium) Jul 2 2024, one of 12 Tech Hubs. The MOU's stated data-center rationale", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "finances", "raw": "funds-rationale-of", "label": "Finances", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC61", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Quantum Tech Hub justification (MOU stated purpose)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "arises-from", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC61", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Quantum Tech Hub justification (MOU stated purpose)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO49", "type": "organization", "name": "Orion Digital Infrastructure", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/orion-digital-infrastructure", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "supplier" ], "key_people": [ "PJP14", "PJP27", "PJP73", "PJP74", "PJP75" ], "stake": "The vehicle providing power and cooling to the campus, co-founded by SCALE Infrastructure Partners and Stellar Energy.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Its leadership: Chairman Peter Gibson, CEO Brannen McElmurray, Global Head of Finance Richard Horman, Global Head of Development Sam Abadalla and Chief of Staff DeLaine Mayer.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Co-founded by SCALE Infrastructure Partners and Stellar Energy.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The governor's February 25, 2025 announcement quotes Peter Gibson as Orion's chairman.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025-02-25" }, { "text": "Abadalla is also CEO of Nebula Energy and Mayer a Nebula founding member; the record places McElmurray, Abadalla and Mayer in a New Fortress Energy alumni network." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Orion = power+cooling vehicle. Leadership: Chairman Gibson, CEO McElmurray, Global Head Finance Richard Horman, Global Head Development Sam Abadalla (also Nebula CEO), Chief of Staff DeLaine Mayer (Nebula founding member).", "sources": [ { "label": "Orion Digital Infrastructure — About page (leadership and founding companies)", "url": "https://www.oriondigitalinfrastructure.com/about", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "Office of the New Mexico Governor — Feb. 25, 2025 announcement quoting Peter Gibson as Orion chairman", "url": "https://www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/02/25/governor-announces-partnership-with-borderplex-digital-digital-infrastructure-campus-represents-5-billion-investment-in-santa-teresa-expected-to-create-1000-jobs/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "provides-power-cooling-to", "label": "Supplies", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP14", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Peter Gibson", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/peter-gibson" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "targets", "label": "Concerns", "direction": "in", "target": "PJC17", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "GPU concentration / diversion risk", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP27", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Brannen McElmurray", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brannen-mcelmurray" }, { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "founded", "label": "Founded by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO72", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "SCALE Infrastructure Partners (Scale Microgrids)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/scale-infrastructure-partners-scale-microgrids" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "announced-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE65", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Orion surfaces its campus role in the Governor's announcement (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "founded", "label": "Founded by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO76", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Stellar Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stellar-energy" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC110", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "EQT institutional-PE layer (undisclosed)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC111", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Trane / Stellar-Digital supply-chain risk", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC114", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "LNG-world pivot (NFE alumni → data-center power)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP73", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Richard Horman", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/richard-horman" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP74", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Sam Abadalla", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sam-abadalla" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP75", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "DeLaine Mayer", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/delaine-mayer" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC117", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Five-layer institutional stack (synthesis)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "names", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD12", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Albuquerque Business First announcement (Mar 20 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "cites", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJN1", "target_type": "narrative", "target_name": "Who lent Project Jupiter $165 billion?", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/narratives/who-lent-project-jupiter-165-billion" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO50", "type": "organization", "name": "Mesilla Valley Economic Development Association (MVEDA)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/mesilla-valley-economic-development-association-mveda", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "economic-development", "roles_in_project": [ "economic-development" ], "key_people": [ "PJP16", "PJP124", "PJP121" ], "stake": "The local economic-development association that has promoted the project, and on whose board a BorderPlex lobbyist sits.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "CEO Davin Lopez called the project “a game-changer for Santa Teresa.”" }, { "text": "Named in the March 20, 2025 Albuquerque Business First announcement of the campus.", "date": "2025-03-20" }, { "text": "Vanessa Alarid, a registered lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets, is a member." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Local EDA booster; CEO Davin Lopez — 'a game-changer for Santa Teresa'", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "supports", "raw": "advocates-for", "label": "Supports", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP16", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Davin Lopez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/davin-lopez" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "names", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD12", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Albuquerque Business First announcement (Mar 20 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP121", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Vanessa Alarid", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/vanessa-alarid" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP124", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Carlos Parra", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/carlos-parra" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI9", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Lobbyist on both sides — Vanessa Alarid (BorderPlex + MVEDA)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#lobbyist-on-both-sides-vanessa-alarid-borderplex-mveda" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO51", "type": "organization", "name": "BuildGroup", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/buildgroup", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "hq": "Austin, TX", "key_people": [ "PJP2" ], "stake": "The Austin venture firm led by Lanham Napier, who founded BorderPlex Digital Assets.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Napier is its co-founder and CEO, per an official biography.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "A software venture firm with more than $368 million under management; its portfolio includes Cybrary and X-Mode." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "BuildGroup — Napier's Austin SaaS venture firm (AUM >$368M); portfolio incl. Cybrary, X-Mode (defense/intel-adjacent)", "sources": [ { "label": "Rice Business — official bio of Lanham Napier, BuildGroup co-founder and CEO", "url": "https://business.rice.edu/person/lanham-napier", "kind": "official-bio" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "chairs", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP2", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Lanham Napier", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/lanham-napier" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO52", "type": "organization", "name": "NM State Legislature", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-legislature", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "legislature", "roles_in_project": [ "approver" ], "key_people": [ "PJP22", "PJP96", "PJP46", "PJP98", "PJP93", "PJP42", "PJP36", "PJP37", "PJP38", "PJP94", "PJP97", "PJP112" ], "stake": "The legislature that passed HB 93 with the microgrid exemption the campus's on-site power plan relies on.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "SB 418, Sen. Michael Padilla's standalone Qualified Microgrid bill, was introduced February 17, 2025 and died February 22 without a floor vote.", "date": "2025-02-22" }, { "text": "HB 93 passed the House 52–8 on March 4, 2025, before the microgrid section was added.", "date": "2025-03-04" }, { "text": "On March 20, 2025, Senate Floor Amendment 1, sponsored by Sen. Padilla, added the exemption as Section 6, and the Senate passed the bill 37–4.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2025-03-20" }, { "text": "The House concurred on March 21, 2025; the session adjourned at noon the next day.", "date": "2025-03-21" }, { "text": "HB 93 was signed on April 8, 2025 and took effect on July 1, 2025.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-04-08" }, { "text": "In the 2026 session the Senate passed the Microgrid Oversight Act 22–20 on February 14; the bill died in the House.", "date": "2026-02-14" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Passed HB 93 w/ the microgrid amendment (Senate 37-4)", "sources": [ { "label": "New Mexico Legislature — enrolled text of HB 93, the Advanced Grid Technology Act (2025)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0093.PDF", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "New Mexico Legislature — Senate floor amendment 1 to HB 93, the microgrid provision (Mar. 2025)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/floor_amendments/SFL_1%20HB%2093%20232085.1.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "New Mexico Legislature — fiscal impact report for HB 93 (2025)", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/firs/HB0093.PDF", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Santa Fe New Mexican — \"Behind-the-scenes deals in New Mexico paved the road to Project Jupiter\"", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/behind-the-scenes-deals-in-new-mexico-paved-the-road-to-project-jupiter/article_3917f534-44b4-4fcc-955e-e5da7ce920de.html", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "El Paso Matters — explainer on the HB 93 microgrid carve-out behind Project Jupiter", "url": "https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/25/stargate-open-ai-oracle-project-jupiter-data-center-dona-ana-new-mexico-el-paso-texas/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "passed", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE41", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "HB 93 signed w/ microgrid/ETA carve-out (Apr 8 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE47", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "SB 235 passes Senate, dies in House (2026 session)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP42", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Sarah Silva", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-sarah-silva" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP46", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Sen. Jeff Steinborn", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-jeff-steinborn" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP36", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Kristina Ortez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-kristina-ortez" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP37", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-patricia-roybal-caballero" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP38", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Raymundo 'Ray' Lara", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-raymundo-ray-lara" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP93", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Mela Lara Cadena", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-mela-lara-cadena" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP94", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-antoinette-sedillo-lopez" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP95", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Joanne J. Ferrary", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-joanne-j-ferrary" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP97", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Sen. Harold Pope Jr.", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sen-harold-pope-jr" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP98", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Nathan Small", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-nathan-small" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP22", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Michael Padilla", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/michael-padilla" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP112", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Christine Chandler", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-christine-chandler" }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "presiding-officer-of", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP96", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Lt. Gov. Howie Morales", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/lt-gov-howie-morales" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP126", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Nicole Chavez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-nicole-chavez" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP155", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Angelica Rubio", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-angelica-rubio" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP156", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rep. Eleanor Chávez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rep-eleanor-chavez" } ], "timeline": [ "2025-02-10", "2025-02-17", "2025-02-22", "2025-03-04", "2025-03-21", "2025-03-22", "2025-04-08", "2025-07-01", "2026-02-14", "2026-02-19", "2027-01-19" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO53", "type": "organization", "name": "350 New Mexico", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/350-new-mexico", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "nonprofit", "stake": "A climate advocacy group that publicly flagged the HB 93 microgrid carve-out.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Its website says the HB 93 amendment “seemingly allow[s] AI centers to circumvent the Energy Transition Act.”" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "350 New Mexico's site says the HB 93 amendment 'seemingly allow[s] AI centers to circumvent the Energy Transition Act'", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "flagged", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC78", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "HB 93 / ETA 'self-sourced microgrid' carve-out", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-03-20" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO54", "type": "organization", "name": "Crusoe Energy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/crusoe-energy", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "The developer of the Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas, in a joint venture with Blue Owl.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Formed a $3.4 billion joint venture in October 2024 with Blue Owl and Primary Digital Infrastructure.", "date": "2024-10" }, { "text": "JPMorgan made a construction loan of about $2.3 billion on the 206 MW first building, which is leased to Oracle." }, { "text": "Benefits from an 85% property-tax abatement approved in Abilene in 2025.", "date": "2025" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Crusoe. $3.4B JV (Oct 2024) w/ Blue Owl + Primary Digital Infrastructure; JPMorgan ~$2.3B construction loan on the 206 MW first building leased to Oracle", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "develops", "raw": "develops", "label": "Develops or operates", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC46", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Abilene Campus (Stargate, TX)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "joint-venture-with", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO6", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital" }, { "predicate": "beneficiary-of", "raw": "beneficiary-of", "label": "Benefits from", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE43", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Abilene 85% property-tax abatement approved (2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO55", "type": "organization", "name": "Lancium", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/lancium", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "The landowner of the Abilene, Texas Stargate campus and counterparty to its 85% property-tax abatement.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The Abilene abatement was approved in 2025.", "date": "2025" }, { "text": "Nvidia announced on August 8, 2026 that it would invest up to $3 billion in Lancium.", "date": "2026-08-08" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Abilene campus landowner; counterparty to the 85% abatement", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "landowner-of", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC46", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Abilene Campus (Stargate, TX)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "counterparty-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE43", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Abilene 85% property-tax abatement approved (2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE133", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Nvidia to invest up to $3 billion in Lancium (Aug 8 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO57", "type": "organization", "name": "EPA Region 6 (Dallas)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/epa-region-6-dallas", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "hq": "Dallas, TX", "roles_in_project": [ "regulator" ], "stake": "The federal environmental regional office with Clean Air Act and Title VI civil-rights jurisdiction over New Mexico.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "A 2024 joint enforcement sweep found violations at 60% of the New Mexico facilities inspected.", "date": "2024" }, { "text": "Issued NPDES permit NMR1007GT on October 2, 2025.", "date": "2025-10-02" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "CAA + Title VI jurisdiction; 2024 joint sweep found violations at 60% of inspected NM facilities", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "enforces", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC86", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "EPA Title VI / environmental-justice pathway", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "issued", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE78", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "EPA issues NPDES permit NMR1007GT (Oct 2 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO58", "type": "organization", "name": "IRS", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/irs", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "roles_in_project": [ "oversight" ], "stake": "The federal tax agency, which holds private-activity-bond audit authority under IRC §103 over the project's industrial revenue bond structure.", "jurisdiction": "federal", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Private-activity-bond / IRC §103 audit authority over the IRB structure", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "audit-authority-over", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC7", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Industrial Revenue Bonds ($165B)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO59", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Public Regulation Commission (PRC)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-public-regulation-commission-prc", "verification": null, "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "stake": "The state utility regulator whose rate and oversight authority the HB 93 carve-out removes for microgrids through 2035.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The Microgrid Oversight Act, which would have put the commission over microgrids, passed the Senate 22–20 on February 14, 2026 and died in the House.", "date": "2026-02-14" }, { "text": "Reviews El Paso Electric's 2026–2035 expansion plan." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Rate/oversight authority the HB 93 carve-out exempts microgrids from (to 2035); SB 235 would restore oversight", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "exempts-from", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC78", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "HB 93 / ETA 'self-sourced microgrid' carve-out", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "reviews", "label": "Regulates or reviews", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE34", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "EPE 2026-2035 Expansion Plan / $308M resiliency (Dec 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-03-20" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO60", "type": "organization", "name": "Spear Street Capital", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/spear-street-capital", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "hq": "San Francisco, CA", "key_people": [ "PJP25" ], "stake": "A San Francisco real-estate and tech-infrastructure firm that BorderPlex co-founder Rajiv Patel co-founded, according to a conference bio.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Patel's role as co-founder and former President rests on a conference bio, not a primary source." }, { "text": "The record lists it as a candidate, not a confirmed, investor in BorderPlex's $20.5 million raise." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Spear Street Capital — SF real-estate/tech-infra firm; Rajiv Patel's former shop (co-founder/ex-President per conference bio, not primary)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "co-founded", "label": "Founded by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP25", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Rajiv S. Patel", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/rajiv-s-patel" }, { "predicate": "finances", "raw": "candidate-investor-in", "label": "Finances", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC94", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "BorderPlex $20.5M Reg D 506(b) raise", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO61", "type": "organization", "name": "P23 (Napier family office)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/p23-napier-family-office", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "key_people": [ "PJP2", "PJP18" ], "stake": "The Napier family office, whose chief investment officer became BorderPlex's CFO.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Harvey Powers was its chief investment officer for more than five years before becoming BorderPlex's CFO.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Lanham Napier, founder of BorderPlex Digital Assets, is its principal." }, { "text": "The record lists it as a candidate, not a confirmed, investor in BorderPlex's $20.5 million raise." } ], "aliases": [ "Project 23" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "P23 (Project 23), the Napier family office; Harvey Powers was its CIO 5+ yrs before becoming BorderPlex CFO — the related-party spine", "sources": [ { "label": "BorderPlex Digital Assets — leadership page with the CFO bio citing P23 (Wayback Machine capture, Aug. 30, 2025)", "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250830095814/https://www.borderplexdigital.com/leadership", "kind": "official-bio" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "was-cio-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP18", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Harvey Powers", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/harvey-powers" }, { "predicate": "finances", "raw": "candidate-investor-in", "label": "Finances", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC94", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "BorderPlex $20.5M Reg D 506(b) raise", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "former-employer-of", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP18", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Harvey Powers", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/harvey-powers" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC105", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "P23 related-party governance (Powers↔Napier)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC117", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Five-layer institutional stack (synthesis)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "principal-of", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP2", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Lanham Napier", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/lanham-napier" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO62", "type": "organization", "name": "Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/ohio-carpenters-pension-plan", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "stake": "The lead plaintiff in a bondholder securities-fraud class action against Oracle over its borrowing for OpenAI data centers.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "The suit was filed in New York State Supreme Court on January 14, 2026.", "date": "2026-01-14" }, { "text": "It alleges Oracle's $18 billion September 2025 bond offering concealed $38 billion in Vantage debt.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Lead plaintiff in the Oracle bondholder securities-fraud class action Lead plaintiff in the Oracle bondholder class action (NY State Supreme Court, filed Jan 14 2026): the $18B Sept 2025 offering allegedly concealed the $38B Vantage debt.", "sources": [ { "label": "Insurance Journal — bondholders sue Oracle over $38 billion in loans for OpenAI data centers", "url": "https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2026/01/15/854381.htm", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "lead-plaintiff-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE57", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle bondholder securities-fraud class action", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO63", "type": "organization", "name": "AEP (American Electric Power)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/aep-american-electric-power", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "utility", "stake": "A utility that is, with Oracle, one of Bloom Energy's two anchor customers.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "An SEC filing of January 8, 2026 describes a roughly $2.65 billion, 900 MW solid-oxide fuel-cell deal in Cheyenne, Wyoming, under a 20-year power purchase agreement with an unnamed customer.", "date": "2026-01-08" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "AEP ~$2.65B (~900 MW SOFC, Cheyenne WY, 20-yr PPA w/ unnamed customer); SEC filing Jan 8 2026. With Oracle, Bloom's two anchor customers", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "tenant-of", "raw": "anchor-customer-of", "label": "Tenant or customer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO7", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bloom Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bloom-energy" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "driven-by", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE58", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Bloom Q1 2026 first positive operating cash flow (~$73.6M)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO64", "type": "organization", "name": "Apaluma", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/apaluma", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "key_people": [ "PJP19", "PJP133", "PJP31", "PJP65" ], "stake": "An AI company founded by former Economic Development Secretary Alicia Keyes that holds no-bid contracts with NMED, the agency deciding the campus's air permit.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Founded by Alicia Keyes in July 2024.", "date": "2024-07" }, { "text": "Written into about $1.48 million of NMED work without a bid, through Speridian Technologies, at Secretary James Kenney's direction, The Candle reported.", "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "text": "Is building NMED's AI document system covering more than 20 million pages, and describes ingesting every public document NMED has filed.", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "text": "Announced a $5.55 million seed round the week the Jupiter ruling was due.", "src": [ 3 ] }, { "text": "The state's own investment fund “probably” holds indirect exposure to the company, The Candle reported.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "Received about $213,000 in state job-training grants from the agency Keyes once led." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The AI company at the center of the influence map: founded by ex-EDD Secretary Alicia Keyes, written into ~$1.48M of NMED work without a bid at Secretary Kenney's direction, ingesting — by its own description — every public document NMED has ever filed, promoted in an official-looking video that later vanished, seeded with $5.55M the week the Jupiter ruling was due, with the state's own investment fund 'probably' holding indirect exposure.", "sources": [ { "label": "The Candle — no-bid deal emails", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-nm-economic-secretary-alicia-keyes-scores-big-no-bid-deal-converting-state-enviro-data-for-her-ai-agent-luma/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "The Candle — second contract", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-secretary-keyes-and-apaluma-added-to-a-second-nmed-contract-valued-at-977354-and-promoted-by-kenney/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "The Candle — SIC exposure", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/sic-likely-has-indirect-exposure-on-5-5-million-seed-money-to-company-founded-by-governors-former-economic-secretary/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "PR Newswire — $5.55M seed (FAQ: 'every public document')", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/apaluma-announces-5-55-million-seed-funding-to-scale-unified-government-data-platform-302828065.html", "kind": "primary-source" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "founded", "label": "Founded by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP19", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Alicia Keyes", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/alicia-keyes" }, { "predicate": "beneficiary-of", "raw": "benefits", "label": "Benefits from", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE61", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Apaluma awarded ~$1.48M no-bid NMED contracts", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contractor-to", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC102", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Keyes→Apaluma→NMED conflict nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP31", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Jennifer Bradfute", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jennifer-bradfute" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbies-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO86", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bradfute Sayer Consulting & Legal Services", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bradfute-sayer-consulting-legal-services" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contracted-via", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO70", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Speridian Technologies", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/speridian-technologies" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP65", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Matthias Sayer", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/matthias-sayer" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJTN18", "target_type": "tension", "target_name": "Regulator-as-decider vs. regulator-as-customer (Kenney/NMED/Apaluma)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "implicates", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCI1", "target_type": "conflict", "target_name": "Revolving door — Alicia Keyes", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/conflicts#revolving-door-alicia-keyes" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE110", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Apaluma closes a $5.55M seed round — announced the week the decision was due", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL124", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The state's own investment fund likely holds indirect exposure to Apaluma", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL125", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Apaluma received ~$213k in state job-training grants from the agency Keyes once led", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE111", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Apaluma promo video — Kenney stars, then it vanishes", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "top-manager-of", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP133", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Tilan Ukwatta", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/tilan-ukwatta" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO65", "type": "organization", "name": "BorderPlex Manager, LLC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-manager-llc", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "special-purpose-entity", "stake": "The top of the BorderPlex special-purpose-entity management chain, listed as Manager/Director on BorderPlex's Form D.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Listed as Manager/Director on BorderPlex Digital Assets' SEC Form D.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Sits atop the Delaware entity network that includes Yucca, Green Chile and Red Chiles A–D." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Top of the SPE management chain; listed as Manager/Director on the Form D", "sources": [ { "label": "SEC EDGAR — Form D of BorderPlex Digital Assets, LLC listing BorderPlex Manager, LLC (Feb. 20, 2025)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2048625/000204862525000001/0002048625-25-000001-index.html", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "top-manager-of", "label": "Leads", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC95", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Delaware SPE network (Yucca / Green Chile / Red Chiles A-D)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "related-person-in", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC94", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "BorderPlex $20.5M Reg D 506(b) raise", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "named-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE52", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "BorderPlex Form D — first sale Jan 31 2025 (signed Feb 18, filed Feb 20)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "references", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL50", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Acoma LLC = NMED permit applicant; Yucca = its manager / IRB vehicle", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO66", "type": "organization", "name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "The air-permit applicant (NSR 10883, docket AQB 26-57(P)) — parent of Acoma, LLC, the subsidiary that filed the first applications; after the Pueblo of Acoma objected to that name, later filings proceeded under Yucca's own. 2,275 Bloom Energy solid-oxide fuel-cell stacks operated by Bloom, up to ~2,462 MW, permitted to run 8,760 hours a year; NMED's modeling treats it as a minor source for PSD while the site 'will be a major source for Title V.' Registered at 600 Congress Ave, Austin — the same address as BorderPlex's Form D headquarters. Also the IRB Series 2025A lessee.", "profile": { "org_kind": "special-purpose-entity", "parent": "PJO4", "hq": "Austin, TX", "roles_in_project": [ "applicant" ], "key_people": [ "PJP52", "PJP31", "PJP121", "PJP197" ], "stake": "The company whose name is on the air permit NMED is deciding for the campus's fuel-cell power plant.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Incorporated in Delaware on August 15, 2025, eleven days before the county's inducement resolution.", "date": "2025-08-15" }, { "text": "Parent of Acoma, LLC, which filed the first applications; the application's Section 1-H lists Yucca as Acoma's parent, so the two coexist rather than one renaming the other." }, { "text": "Applicant on permit NSR 10883 to run 2,275 Bloom Energy fuel-cell stacks, operated by Bloom, up to about 2,462 MW and permitted for 8,760 hours a year.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The earlier Acoma applications sat at 249.97 and 248.9 tons of NOx, three-hundredths of a ton under the major-source line, and were withdrawn on April 27, 2026, the day NMED decided to hold a hearing.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026-04-27" }, { "text": "Was the sole funder of Elevate New Mexico, which disclosed $3,667,000 in contributions, all from Yucca Growth Infrastructure, in its July 24, 2026 settlement with the Ethics Commission.", "date": "2026-07-24" }, { "text": "Asked the Supreme Court on September 1, 2026 to partially resume the stayed air proceeding; the Court denied it unanimously, without comment.", "date": "2026-09-01" } ], "aliases": [ "YGI" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The company whose name is on the permit: its subsidiary Acoma, LLC filed the first applications (the application's own Section 1-H lists Yucca as Acoma's parent — parent and subsidiary coexisting, not a rename), and it is applying to run 2,275 Bloom fuel-cell stacks around the clock ~3.6 miles south of Santa Teresa. Its registered address is the same Austin suite as BorderPlex's securities filings. Its earlier incarnation filed two applications at 249.97 and 248.9 tons of NOx — three-hundredths of a ton under the major-source line — and withdrew them the day NMED decided to hold a hearing.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — YGI Microgrid modeling review (Jun 16 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://cloud.env.nm.gov/resources/_translator.php/Zjk1ZGJmOWM2YzhiYTJiYTUyZjYzMTA3MF8yMzYxODE~.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NMELC — initial letter re: YGI Microgrid (PDF)", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Initial-Letter-re_-YGI-Microgrid-.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "applicant-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC95", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Delaware SPE network (Yucca / Green Chile / Red Chiles A-D)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subsidiary-of", "raw": "spe-of", "label": "Subsidiary or vehicle of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "agent-for", "label": "Retains", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO75", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Trinity Consultants", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/trinity-consultants" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "objected-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO80", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Pueblo of Acoma", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/pueblo-of-acoma" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "operations-manager-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP52", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Dan McGuire", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/dan-mcguire" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "evades", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC34", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "PSD major-source threshold (250 t/yr NOx)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD44", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "YGI Microgrid — Bloom fuel-cell air application (2.45 GW, Apr 26 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE107", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM DOJ opens fraud investigation into the permit comments (Jul 9 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "prepared-application-for", "label": "Retains", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO75", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Trinity Consultants", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/trinity-consultants" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL121", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Bradfute is now counsel of record for the permit applicant (YGI)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE113", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Show-cause order: can the campus be built without the pipeline? (Aug 5 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE115", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Acoma withdraws the East/West microgrid applications (Apr 27 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL130", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The site is outside the nonattainment boundary — but inside the airshed", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL131", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The current permit's numbers: 37.2 tpy NOx — minor for PSD, major for Title V", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL144", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The permit before NMED is phase one, not the campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE123", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Elevate settles — and its sole funder is the permit applicant (Jul 24 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL146", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Elevate New Mexico was funded entirely by the air-permit applicant", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "consultant-for", "label": "Retains", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO75", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Trinity Consultants", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/trinity-consultants" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE128", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Supreme Court stays the air proceeding (Aug 23 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE138", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Supreme Court refuses to let the air case restart in pieces (Sept 1 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Involves", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP187", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Marisa Blackshire", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/marisa-blackshire" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL192", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The applicant filed a brief the rules did not allow, and was moved against for it", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL193", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The applicant's answer to the denial rule: this is a minor source, and the clock is generous", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE155", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle sends a force majeure notice on Project Jupiter (Sept 24 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL200", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Seven lobbyists, five registered employers: who is paid to advance the project in Santa Fe", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP121", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Vanessa Alarid", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/vanessa-alarid" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP197", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Roberto A. Ramirez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/roberto-a-ramirez" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP31", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Jennifer Bradfute", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jennifer-bradfute" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE67", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The “Acoma” name is dropped after the Pueblo of Acoma objects", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP18", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Harvey Powers", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/harvey-powers" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "cites", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJN1", "target_type": "narrative", "target_name": "Who lent Project Jupiter $165 billion?", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/narratives/who-lent-project-jupiter-165-billion" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL206", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Every Jupiter bond was bought by a company on the borrowing side", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL209", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The benefits agreement can be dropped if the companies give up the tax break by Dec 31, 2026", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-08-15", "2025-11-12", "2025-11-12b", "2026-04-27", "2026-07-09", "2026-07-24", "2026-07-29", "2026-08-05", "2026-08-10c", "2026-08-19", "2026-08-23", "2026-09-01", "2026-09-21c", "2026-09-24" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO67", "type": "organization", "name": "Elevate New Mexico", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/elevate-new-mexico", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "nonprofit", "key_people": [ "PJP26" ], "stake": "A Virginia nonprofit that ran advertising urging approval of the air permit and was later shown to be funded entirely by the permit applicant.", "stance": { "position": "supports", "src": [ 0 ], "basis": "Ran advertising and lobbied NMED to approve the air permit." }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "A Virginia nonstock corporation that ran a pro-permit ad campaign from January 29 to March 2, 2026.", "date": "2026-01-29" }, { "text": "The State Ethics Commission sued it on April 17, 2026, alleging it spent at least $2,500 lobbying NMED without registering; it had refused to register or disclose its funders.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-04-17" }, { "text": "Settled on July 24, 2026, disclosing $3,667,000 in contributions, all from Yucca Growth Infrastructure, and $419,478 in ad spending.", "date": "2026-07-24" }, { "text": "Hired APCO Worldwide for the campaign." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "VA nonstock corp (ID 11953909); pro-permit astroturf; refused funder disclosure; defendant in the NM Ethics Commission suit", "sources": [ { "label": "New Mexico State Ethics Commission — complaint against Elevate New Mexico (Apr. 17, 2026)", "url": "https://www.sec.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-17-SEC-v.-Elevate-Compl.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "incorporated", "label": "Founded by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP26", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Steve Roberts", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/steve-roberts" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "ran", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE59", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Elevate NM pro-permit ad campaign (Jan 29–Mar 2 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "hired-by", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO69", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "APCO Worldwide", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/apco-worldwide" }, { "predicate": "litigates-against", "raw": "sues", "label": "Sued by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO68", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM State Ethics Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-ethics-commission" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "against", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE60", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Ethics Commission sues Elevate NM (Apr 17 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "comprises", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC103", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "'Elevate New Mexico' astroturf operation", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE123", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Elevate settles — and its sole funder is the permit applicant (Jul 24 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL146", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Elevate New Mexico was funded entirely by the air-permit applicant", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-04-17", "2026-07-24" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO68", "type": "organization", "name": "NM State Ethics Commission", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-ethics-commission", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "roles_in_project": [ "oversight" ], "key_people": [ "PJP64" ], "stake": "The state ethics agency that sued Elevate New Mexico over its undisclosed funders and announced Oracle's record lobbying-advertising disclosure.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Sued Elevate New Mexico on April 17, 2026, in case D-202-CV-2026-03769, over undisclosed funders of lobbying advertising.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-04-17" }, { "text": "Under its July 24, 2026 settlement, Elevate disclosed Yucca Growth Infrastructure, the permit applicant, as its sole funder.", "date": "2026-07-24" }, { "text": "Announced on September 16, 2026 that Oracle had registered a $3,444,500 lobbying advertising campaign, the largest reported since 2021, the earliest year with records.", "date": "2026-09-16" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Sued Elevate NM (D-202-CV-2026-03769, Apr 17 2026) over undisclosed lobbying-ad funders", "sources": [ { "label": "NM State Ethics Commission — complaint in State Ethics Commission v. Elevate New Mexico (Apr. 17, 2026)", "url": "https://www.sec.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-17-SEC-v.-Elevate-Compl.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "litigates-against", "raw": "sues", "label": "In litigation against", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO67", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Elevate New Mexico", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/elevate-new-mexico" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "official-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP64", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Amelia Bierle", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/amelia-bierle" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE60", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Ethics Commission sues Elevate NM (Apr 17 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-04-17" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO69", "type": "organization", "name": "APCO Worldwide", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/apco-worldwide", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "lobbying-firm", "roles_in_project": [ "lobbying-firm" ], "stake": "The global public-relations and lobbying firm Elevate New Mexico hired for its pro-permit campaign.", "jurisdiction": "private", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Global PR/lobbying firm hired by Elevate NM for the pro-permit campaign", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "hired-by", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO67", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Elevate New Mexico", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/elevate-new-mexico" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC103", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "'Elevate New Mexico' astroturf operation", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO70", "type": "organization", "name": "Speridian Technologies", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/speridian-technologies", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "The IT contractor whose NMED contract was amended to bring in Apaluma, the AI company founded by Alicia Keyes.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Its $1,801,300 NMED contract was amended by $499,990, at the Secretary's direction, to host Apaluma as a subcontractor, per internal emails reported by The Candle.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Its architect described Speridian taking “passive income from the upsold subcontracted services at a reasonable percentage.”", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "A follow-on $977,354 contract required Keyes and Apaluma affiliates as its Key Staff at $125–130 an hour.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The IT contractor whose NMED deal became the vehicle: its $1.8M contract was amended at the Secretary's direction to host Apaluma as a subcontractor — taking, in its own architect's words, 'passive income from the upsold subcontracted services' — and its follow-on $977,354 contract was required to staff Keyes and Apaluma affiliates at $125–130 an hour.", "sources": [ { "label": "The Candle — no-bid deal emails", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-nm-economic-secretary-alicia-keyes-scores-big-no-bid-deal-converting-state-enviro-data-for-her-ai-agent-luma/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subsidiary-of", "raw": "vehicle-for", "label": "Subsidiary or vehicle of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE61", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Apaluma awarded ~$1.48M no-bid NMED contracts", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "signed-contracts-with", "label": "Retains", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP92", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Manny Barreras", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/manny-barreras" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contracted-via", "label": "Retains", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO64", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Apaluma", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/apaluma" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contracted-with", "label": "Retains", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO89", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Dept of Information Technology (DoIT)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-dept-of-information-technology-doit" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO71", "type": "organization", "name": "Oracle bond underwriter syndicate", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-bond-underwriter-syndicate", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "stake": "The banks that underwrote Oracle's $18 billion notes and are co-defendants in the bondholder securities-fraud suit.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "BofA, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman, HSBC and JPMorgan underwrote Oracle's $18 billion senior notes of September 25, 2025.", "date": "2025-09-25" }, { "text": "Named as co-defendants in the bondholder class action against Oracle.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "BofA, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman, HSBC, JPMorgan — underwrote the $18B notes; co-defendants in the bondholder suit", "sources": [ { "label": "Insurance Journal — bondholders sue Oracle and its 16 underwriting banks over AI data-center debt", "url": "https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2026/01/15/854381.htm", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "finances", "raw": "underwrote", "label": "Finances", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE54", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle $18B senior notes (Sep 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "defendant-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE57", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle bondholder securities-fraud class action", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO72", "type": "organization", "name": "SCALE Infrastructure Partners (Scale Microgrids)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/scale-infrastructure-partners-scale-microgrids", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "parent": "PJO81", "key_people": [ "PJP86" ], "stake": "A microgrid developer owned by EQT Group that co-founded Orion, the campus's power-and-cooling vehicle.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-founded Orion Digital Infrastructure.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Wholly owned by EQT Group since its January 2025 acquisition through EQT Transition Infrastructure.", "date": "2025-01" }, { "text": "Acquired Reload in February 2026.", "date": "2026-02" }, { "text": "Its CEO is Ryan Goodman." } ], "aliases": [ "Scale Microgrids" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Microgrid developer 100% owned by EQT Group (acquired Jan 2025 via EQT Transition Infrastructure); CEO Ryan Goodman; acquired Reload (Feb 2026). So Orion's power layer traces to EQT, an undisclosed institutional-PE principal", "sources": [ { "label": "Orion Digital Infrastructure — About page naming SCALE Infrastructure Partners as co-founder", "url": "https://www.oriondigitalinfrastructure.com/about", "kind": "official-bio" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "founded", "label": "Founded", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO49", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Orion Digital Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/orion-digital-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "owns", "label": "Owned by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO81", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "EQT Group", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/eqt-group" }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP86", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Ryan Goodman", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/ryan-goodman" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC110", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "EQT institutional-PE layer (undisclosed)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO73", "type": "organization", "name": "The Borderplex Alliance", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/the-borderplex-alliance", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "economic-development", "key_people": [ "PJP13" ], "stake": "A regional economic-development body for El Paso, Las Cruces and Juárez whose name the developer BorderPlex Digital Assets adopted.", "jurisdiction": "regional", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Kelly Tomblin, CEO of El Paso Electric, is its Vice Chair.", "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "text": "The record describes it as a legitimate regional body, separate from the developer that uses a similar name." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Legitimate regional econ-dev body (El Paso/Las Cruces/Juárez); Kelly Tomblin is Vice Chair. Its name was adopted by the developer BorderPlex Digital Assets — a legitimacy-laundering nexus", "sources": [ { "label": "The Borderplex Alliance — About Us page (board leadership)", "url": "https://www.borderplexalliance.org/about-us", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "El Paso Electric — officer bio of Kelly A. Tomblin, noting her Borderplex Alliance vice-chairmanship", "url": "https://www.epelectric.com/company/about-epe/officers/kelly-a-tomblin", "kind": "official-bio" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "vice-chair-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP13", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Kelly Tomblin", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/kelly-tomblin" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "borrowed-name-from", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC106", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Borderplex Alliance naming nexus (legitimacy laundering)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO74", "type": "organization", "name": "Altivus CRM Solutions", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/altivus-crm-solutions", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "key_people": [ "PJP22" ], "stake": "The call-center and CRM company owned by Sen. Michael Padilla, a private tech-sector interest held while sponsoring data-center legislation.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Padilla is its founder and CEO.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Sen. Padilla's call-center/CRM company — his private tech-sector interest while sponsoring data-center legislation", "sources": [ { "label": "Wikipedia — Michael Padilla, founder and CEO of Altivus CRM Solutions", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Padilla", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "owns", "label": "Owned by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP22", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Michael Padilla", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/michael-padilla" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO75", "type": "organization", "name": "Trinity Consultants", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/trinity-consultants", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "contractor" ], "key_people": [ "PJP164", "PJP165" ], "stake": "The environmental consulting firm that prepared and filed the campus's air-permit applications.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Prepared and filed the NMED air-permit applications on behalf of Acoma, LLC and Yucca Growth Infrastructure." }, { "text": "Its modeling for the fuel-cell application is dated April 27, 2026, the same day the earlier East and West applications were withdrawn.", "date": "2026-04-27" }, { "text": "Shares a street address with BorderPlex Digital Assets." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Filed the NMED air-permit applications on behalf of Acoma LLC (same street address as BorderPlex Digital Assets)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "agent-for", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO66", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "shares-address-with", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "prepared-application-for", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO66", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP164", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Jesse Lovegren", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jesse-lovegren" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP165", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Jaimy Karacaoglu", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jaimy-karacaoglu" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "consultant-for", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO66", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi" }, { "predicate": "authored", "raw": "prepared", "label": "Authored or issued", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD45", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Gas-turbine NSR applications 10732/10734 — full filings (Nov 13 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO76", "type": "organization", "name": "Stellar Energy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stellar-energy", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "key_people": [ "PJP14", "PJP84", "PJP85" ], "stake": "A Florida power, LNG and cooling company owned by Orion chairman Peter Gibson, and a founding company of Orion.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-founded Orion Digital Infrastructure.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Sold its data-center cooling (“Digital”) division to Trane Technologies in a deal that closed February 18, 2026; Gibson kept the non-digital LNG and turbine business.", "date": "2026-02-18" }, { "text": "The record notes that the cooling capacity Orion relies on may now sit inside Trane." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Stellar Energy — Gibson-owned FL hyperscale power/LNG/cooling co. CRITICAL: its DIGITAL (data-center cooling) division was sold to Trane Technologies, closed Feb 18 2026 — so the cooling-execution capacity Orion relies on may now sit…", "sources": [ { "label": "Orion Digital Infrastructure — About page naming Stellar Energy as a founding company", "url": "https://www.oriondigitalinfrastructure.com/about", "kind": "official-bio" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "owns", "label": "Owned by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP14", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Peter Gibson", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/peter-gibson" }, { "predicate": "founded", "raw": "founded", "label": "Founded", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO49", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Orion Digital Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/orion-digital-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "carves-out", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE69", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Trane acquires Stellar's data-center cooling business (closed Feb 18 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "acquired", "label": "Owned by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO82", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Trane Technologies", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/trane-technologies" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC111", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Trane / Stellar-Digital supply-chain risk", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP84", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Brian Allen", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brian-allen" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP85", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Tom Brady", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/tom-brady" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "alum-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP74", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Sam Abadalla", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sam-abadalla" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO77", "type": "organization", "name": "Nebula Energy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nebula-energy", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "key_people": [ "PJP14", "PJP74", "PJP75" ], "stake": "Peter Gibson's oil, gas and renewable-natural-gas holding company, whose leadership overlaps with Orion's.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Chaired by Peter Gibson; Sam Abadalla is its CEO and DeLaine Mayer a founding member." }, { "text": "Acquired a majority stake in AG&P LNG.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Reposted the governor's BorderPlex announcement on February 26, 2025.", "date": "2025-02-26" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Gibson's oil/gas/renewable-natural-gas holding company; chaired by Gibson; reposted the Governor's BorderPlex announcement (Feb 26 2025)", "sources": [ { "label": "PR Newswire — Nebula Energy LLC acquires majority stake in AG&P LNG, with Peter Gibson as chairman", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nebula-energy-llc-buys-majority-stake-in-agp-lng-a-subsidiary-of-agp-group-focused-on-integrated-lng-terminal-and-downstream-gas-market-development-302048793.html", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "chairs", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP14", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Peter Gibson", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/peter-gibson" }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP74", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Sam Abadalla", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sam-abadalla" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "founding-member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP75", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "DeLaine Mayer", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/delaine-mayer" }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "stake-in", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO84", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "AG&P LNG", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/ag-p-lng" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO78", "type": "organization", "name": "MAS Energy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/mas-energy", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "key_people": [ "PJP14" ], "stake": "A renewable-natural-gas company that Orion chairman Peter Gibson sold in 2022.", "jurisdiction": "private", "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Renewable-natural-gas company Gibson sold in 2022 ('lucrative' exit)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "formerly-owned", "label": "Owned by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP14", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Peter Gibson", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/peter-gibson" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO79", "type": "organization", "name": "EPCOR (Water)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/epcor-water", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "utility", "key_people": [ "PJP54" ], "stake": "A private water utility named as a desalination-feasibility partner in the project's founding announcements.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named in the governor's February 25, 2025 announcement as a desalination-feasibility partner.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-02-25" }, { "text": "A subsidiary of EPCOR Utilities of Edmonton, Alberta, operating in the U.S. Southwest." }, { "text": "Referenced in the NMSU–BorderPlex desalination advisory agreement." }, { "text": "Its vice president of business development is Daniel Bailet." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Private Canadian water utility (subsidiary of EPCOR Utilities, Edmonton AB) operating in the US Southwest; desalination-feasibility partner (VP Biz Dev Daniel Bailet).", "sources": [ { "label": "Office of the New Mexico Governor — Feb. 25, 2025 announcement naming EPCOR as desalination-feasibility partner", "url": "https://www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/02/25/governor-announces-partnership-with-borderplex-digital-digital-infrastructure-campus-represents-5-billion-investment-in-santa-teresa-expected-to-create-1000-jobs/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partners-on", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC64", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Mesilla Basin brackish/desalination program", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "referenced-in", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD13", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NMSU–BorderPlex desal advisory agreement (Feb 25 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP54", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Daniel Bailet", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/daniel-bailet" }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "partner-of", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC117", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Five-layer institutional stack (synthesis)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "backstops", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC118", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "HB 137 Strategic Water Supply Act ($75M state desal fund)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO80", "type": "organization", "name": "Pueblo of Acoma", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/pueblo-of-acoma", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "tribal", "stake": "The Native nation that objected to the unauthorized use of its name by Acoma, LLC, the first air-permit filer.", "jurisdiction": "tribal", "key_facts": [ { "text": "One of New Mexico's oldest Native nations." }, { "text": "Formally objected to Acoma, LLC's use of the tribal name, after which the “Acoma” name was dropped in favor of its parent, Yucca Growth Infrastructure." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "One of NM's oldest Native nations; formally objected to Acoma LLC's unauthorized use of the tribal name → later filings proceeded under the name of Acoma LLC's parent, Yucca Growth Infrastructure (not a rename; the two coexisted)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "objected-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO66", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/yucca-growth-infrastructure-llc-ygi" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE67", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The “Acoma” name is dropped after the Pueblo of Acoma objects", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "references", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL50", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Acoma LLC = NMED permit applicant; Yucca = its manager / IRB vehicle", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO81", "type": "organization", "name": "EQT Group", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/eqt-group", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "stake": "The Swedish asset manager that owns SCALE Infrastructure Partners, which the record traces as the principal behind Orion's power layer.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Manages more than €246 billion in assets." }, { "text": "The record describes its role behind Orion's power layer as undisclosed." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Swedish alt-asset manager (€246B+ AUM); owns SCALE/Scale Microgrids → the true principal behind Orion's power layer", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "owns", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO72", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "SCALE Infrastructure Partners (Scale Microgrids)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/scale-infrastructure-partners-scale-microgrids" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC110", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "EQT institutional-PE layer (undisclosed)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO82", "type": "organization", "name": "Trane Technologies", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/trane-technologies", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "The industrial company that bought Stellar Energy's data-center cooling business, which the record ties to Orion's cooling capacity.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Acquired Stellar Energy's data-center cooling business, about 700 employees and two Jacksonville plants, in a deal that closed February 18, 2026.", "date": "2026-02-18" }, { "text": "No Jupiter-specific obligation has been disclosed." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NYSE:TT; acquired Stellar Energy's data-center cooling ('Digital') business, closed Feb 18 2026 (~700 employees, 2 Jacksonville plants). No disclosed Jupiter obligation", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "acquired", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO76", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Stellar Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/stellar-energy" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC111", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Trane / Stellar-Digital supply-chain risk", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE69", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Trane acquires Stellar's data-center cooling business (closed Feb 18 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO83", "type": "organization", "name": "New Fortress Energy (NFE)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-fortress-energy-nfe", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "The LNG company where Orion executives Brannen McElmurray and Sam Abadalla previously worked.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "McElmurray was a managing director and chief development officer there, and Abadalla vice president of projects; Genera PR also came out of it." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "NASDAQ:NFE; the LNG shop that McElmurray (MD/CDO), Abadalla (VP Projects), and Genera PR came out of — the Orion team's shared origin", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "alum-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP74", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Sam Abadalla", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/sam-abadalla" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "alum-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP27", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Brannen McElmurray", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brannen-mcelmurray" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC114", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "LNG-world pivot (NFE alumni → data-center power)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO84", "type": "organization", "name": "AG&P LNG", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/ag-p-lng", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "parent": "PJO77", "key_people": [ "PJP14" ], "stake": "A UAE-based LNG terminal company majority-owned by Peter Gibson's Nebula Energy and chaired by Gibson.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Nebula Energy acquired a majority stake for $300 million in January 2024.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2024-01" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "UAE-based LNG terminals; Gibson's Nebula acquired a majority stake ($300M, Jan 2024); Gibson chairs", "sources": [ { "label": "PR Newswire — Nebula Energy LLC acquires majority stake in AG&P LNG", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nebula-energy-llc-buys-majority-stake-in-agp-lng-a-subsidiary-of-agp-group-focused-on-integrated-lng-terminal-and-downstream-gas-market-development-302048793.html", "kind": "primary-source" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "chairs", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP14", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Peter Gibson", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/peter-gibson" }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "stake-in", "label": "Owned by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO77", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Nebula Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nebula-energy" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO85", "type": "organization", "name": "WATR Alliance", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/watr-alliance", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "key_people": [ "PJP31" ], "stake": "A water-reuse alliance whose president, Jennifer Bradfute, is also a BorderPlex lobbyist; it has petitioned NMED Secretary James Kenney, who also oversees the campus's air permit, to loosen produced-water rules.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Its president is Jennifer Bradfute.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Its 2025 and 2026 lobbyist rosters list one lobbyist, Jennifer Bradfute (marked Authorized: No).", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Petitioned to unwind the Water Quality Control Commission's produced-water prohibition, adopted May 14, 2025; the commission reversed itself on the petition on November 14, 2025.", "date": "2025-11-14" } ], "aliases": [ "Water Access Treatment & Reuse Alliance" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Water Access Treatment & Reuse alliance; Bradfute & Sayer lobby for it, petitioning NMED to loosen produced-water rules — same Sec. Kenney as the Jupiter permit", "sources": [ { "label": "WATR Alliance — About page (leadership, including President Jennifer Bradfute)", "url": "https://watralliance.org/about/", "kind": "official-bio" }, { "label": "NM Secretary of State — lobbyist-employer rosters (GetAuthorizedLobbyists), 2025–2026, as shown on the public client pages (pulled Sept 27 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbies-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO86", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Bradfute Sayer Consulting & Legal Services", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bradfute-sayer-consulting-legal-services" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "petitions", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP21", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "James Kenney", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/james-kenney" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbyist-for", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP31", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Jennifer Bradfute", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jennifer-bradfute" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "petitioner-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE90", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "WQCC reverses itself on the WATR petition (Nov 14 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "petitions-to-unwind", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE94", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "WQCC adopts the produced-water prohibition (May 14 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO86", "type": "organization", "name": "Bradfute Sayer Consulting & Legal Services", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/bradfute-sayer-consulting-legal-services", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "lobbying-firm", "hq": "Albuquerque, NM", "roles_in_project": [ "lobbying-firm" ], "key_people": [ "PJP31", "PJP65" ], "stake": "The Albuquerque lobbying and regulatory firm of Jennifer Bradfute and Matthias Sayer, registered for BorderPlex, Apaluma and the WATR Alliance.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-owned by Jennifer Bradfute and Matthias Sayer." }, { "text": "Registered concurrently for BorderPlex Digital Assets, Apaluma and the WATR Alliance in January–February 2025 campaign-finance filings.", "date": "2025" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Albuquerque lobbying/regulatory firm (Bradfute + Sayer); registered concurrently for BorderPlex, Apaluma, WATR (Jan-Feb 2025 CFIS)", "sources": [ { "label": "Heath Haussamen — \"Project Jupiter water-use claim rankles opponents and supporters\" (Apr. 7, 2026)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2026/04/07/project-jupiter-water-use-claim-rankles-opponents-and-supporters/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "co-owner-of", "label": "Owned by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP65", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Matthias Sayer", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/matthias-sayer" }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "co-owner-of", "label": "Owned by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP31", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Jennifer Bradfute", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jennifer-bradfute" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbies-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbies-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO64", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Apaluma", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/apaluma" }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "lobbies-for", "label": "Lobbies for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO85", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "WATR Alliance", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/watr-alliance" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC113", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Bradfute–Sayer–Keyes–WATR–Apaluma–NMED nexus", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO87", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Building & Construction Trades Council", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-building-construction-trades-council", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "union", "key_people": [ "PJP87" ], "stake": "A labor council that backs the project for its construction jobs.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Led by executive director Brian Condit." }, { "text": "Endorsed the Project Jupiter campus, citing the construction jobs." }, { "text": "Recorded as a party to the NMED air-permit proceeding." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Labor council backing the project (ED Brian Condit) for the construction jobs", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP87", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Brian Condit", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/brian-condit" }, { "predicate": "supports", "raw": "endorsed", "label": "Supports", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO88", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Border Authority", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-border-authority", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "key_people": [ "PJP88" ], "stake": "A state agency that hosted the BorderPlex team in March 2025.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Hosted the BorderPlex Digital Assets team in March 2025.", "date": "2025-03" }, { "text": "Gerardo Fierro is the official the record ties to the agency." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Hosted the BorderPlex team (Mar 2025); Gerardo Fierro", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "official-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP88", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Gerardo Fierro", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gerardo-fierro" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "hosted", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO89", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Dept of Information Technology (DoIT)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-dept-of-information-technology-doit", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "key_people": [ "PJP92" ], "stake": "The state IT department whose secretary signed the Speridian contracts that came before Apaluma, part of the record's Project Velocity thread.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Led by Cabinet Secretary and state CIO Manny Barreras." }, { "text": "Contracted with Speridian Technologies before the Apaluma contracts." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Sec/CIO Manny Barreras signed the pre-Apaluma Speridian contracts feeding the Project Velocity thread", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP92", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Manny Barreras", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/manny-barreras" }, { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contracted-with", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO70", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Speridian Technologies", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/speridian-technologies" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO90", "type": "organization", "name": "Empowerment Congress", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/empowerment-congress", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Community organization and original lead plaintiff in the first OMA lawsuit (D-307-CV-2025-02766) seeking to void the IRB and LEDA ordinances; withdrew November 6, 2025; Daisy Maldonado is its former director.", "profile": { "org_kind": "community-group", "roles_in_project": [ "litigant" ], "key_people": [ "PJP104" ], "stake": "A community organization that was the original lead plaintiff in the Open Meetings Act suit seeking to void the county's IRB and LEDA ordinances.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Named, with two residents, as a plaintiff when NMELC filed the first Open Meetings Act suit to void Ordinances 367 and 368 (Case D-307-CV-2025-02766).", "date": "2025-10-17" }, { "text": "Withdrew as lead plaintiff on November 6, 2025; the individual plaintiffs continued.", "date": "2025-11-06" }, { "text": "It is not a party to NMELC's second Open Meetings Act complaint, filed February 6, 2026, which NMELC brought in its own name (No. D-307-CV-2026-00398).", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-02-06" }, { "text": "Daisy Maldonado, its former director, presented to the interim Water and Natural Resources Committee on October 29, 2025, describing the project as four data centers and a 700-megawatt gas plant.", "date": "2025-10-29" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Original lead plaintiff in the NMELC IRB suit; withdrew Nov 6 2025 (individual plaintiffs continued)", "sources": [ { "label": "NMELC — OMA complaint (Feb 6 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://nmelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Final-Complaint-Open-Meetings-Act-Lawsuit-Exs.-1-3-endorsed_-02-06-26.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "former-plaintiff-with", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO16", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environmental Law Center (NMELC)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environmental-law-center-nmelc" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO91", "type": "organization", "name": "El Paso Matters", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/el-paso-matters", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "media", "roles_in_project": [ "press" ], "key_people": [ "PJP100" ], "stake": "A nonprofit newsroom whose reporter Diego Mendoza-Moyers leads its Project Jupiter coverage.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Nonprofit newsroom; Diego Mendoza-Moyers is its lead reporter on Project Jupiter." }, { "text": "Reported that Oracle's force majeure notice would let Oracle defer rent for up to three years if power is not online on schedule.", "date": "2026-09-24" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Nonprofit newsroom; Diego Mendoza-Moyers is the lead Jupiter reporter", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "reporter-for", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP100", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Diego Mendoza-Moyers", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/diego-mendoza-moyers" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC116", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter press & watchdog ecosystem", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO92", "type": "organization", "name": "Source New Mexico", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/source-new-mexico", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "media", "roles_in_project": [ "press" ], "key_people": [ "PJP101", "PJP102" ], "stake": "A statewide nonprofit newsroom whose reporters Joshua Bowling and Danielle Prokop cover Project Jupiter.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Published the first critical account of the HB 93 microgrid provision as a way around the Energy Transition Act, ten months after the Fiscal Impact Report described the same provision.", "date": "2026-01-14" }, { "text": "Reported canvassers in Project Jupiter t-shirts and pro-permit comments filed in residents' names without their consent.", "date": "2026-06-30" }, { "text": "Reported that the New Mexico Supreme Court denied the developer's request to partially resume the air-quality case.", "date": "2026-09-01" }, { "text": "Reported the State Ethics Commission's finding that Oracle's $3.4 million in Project Jupiter ads sought to sway permitting.", "date": "2026-09-16" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Statewide nonprofit newsroom; Bowling + Prokop on the Jupiter beat", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "reporter-for", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP101", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Joshua Bowling", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/joshua-bowling" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "reporter-for", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP102", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Danielle Prokop", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/danielle-prokop" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC116", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter press & watchdog ecosystem", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-01-14", "2026-06-30" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO93", "type": "organization", "name": "Searchlight New Mexico", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/searchlight-new-mexico", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "media", "roles_in_project": [ "press" ], "key_people": [ "PJP103" ], "stake": "An investigative nonprofit newsroom covering Project Jupiter, with reporter Ed Williams.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Reporter Ed Williams brings dark-money expertise relevant to Elevate NM." }, { "text": "Reported that a new Project Jupiter report does not say whether the company is hiring Doña Ana County residents first.", "date": "2026-08-15" }, { "text": "Reported that the companies building the campus recruited at an NMSU career fair without using the Project Jupiter name.", "date": "2026-09-18" }, { "text": "Published a report on the lobbyists working for Project Jupiter, describing them as a who's who of power brokers in New Mexico.", "date": "2026-09-25" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Investigative nonprofit; Ed Williams (dark-money expertise relevant to Elevate NM)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "reporter-for", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP103", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Ed Williams", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/ed-williams" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC116", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter press & watchdog ecosystem", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO94", "type": "organization", "name": "KRWG Public Media", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/krwg-public-media", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "media", "hq": "Las Cruces, NM", "roles_in_project": [ "press" ], "stake": "The Las Cruces PBS and NPR station, with ongoing Project Jupiter coverage.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Las Cruces public broadcaster carrying PBS and NPR." }, { "text": "Reported that county commissioners appointed members of the Project Jupiter monitoring committee.", "date": "2026-09-22" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Las Cruces PBS/NPR; ongoing Jupiter coverage", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC116", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter press & watchdog ecosystem", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO95", "type": "organization", "name": "Las Cruces Community Radio", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/las-cruces-community-radio", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "media", "roles_in_project": [ "press" ], "key_people": [ "PJP104" ], "stake": "A community radio station that hosted interviews with NMELC attorneys; its co-host Daisy Maldonado is also a plaintiff.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Hosted interviews with NMELC attorneys." }, { "text": "Daisy Maldonado, a co-host, is also a plaintiff." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Community radio; hosted NMELC-attorney interviews (Daisy Maldonado co-host — also a plaintiff)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "host-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP104", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Daisy Maldonado", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/daisy-maldonado" }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC116", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter press & watchdog ecosystem", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO96", "type": "organization", "name": "Doña Ana County government (staff)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-government-staff", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "county", "key_people": [ "PJP56", "PJP57", "PJP58", "PJP59", "PJP60", "PJP61", "PJP62" ], "stake": "The county's administrative staff, distinct from the elected Commission, who presented Project Jupiter to commissioners and answered public questions about it.", "jurisdiction": "county-dona-ana", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Includes the county manager, county attorneys, and economic and community development staff." }, { "text": "Presented to the Board of County Commissioners on Project Jupiter on July 28, 2026.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026-07-28" }, { "text": "County leadership issued a statement addressing community questions about Project Jupiter.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The record documents its use of the public-records terrorism exemption, IPRA §14-2-1(A)(8)." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The county administrative staff (manager, attorneys, ED + community development) distinct from the elected Commission", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — \"County Leadership Addresses Community Questions About Project Jupiter\"", "url": "https://www.donaana.gov/news_detail_T7_R32.php", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Doña Ana County — staff presentation to the Board of County Commissioners on Project Jupiter (Jul 28, 2026)", "url": "https://cms2.revize.com/revize/donaanacounty/Documents/About%20Us/Economic%20Development%20Projects/PJ%20-%20BOCC%20Presentation%20-%207.28.2026.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Works for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO9", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP56", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Scott Andrews", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/scott-andrews" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP57", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Stephen Lopez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/stephen-lopez" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP58", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Cari Neill", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/cari-neill" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP59", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Nelson J. Goodin", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/nelson-j-goodin" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP60", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Fred Kennon", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/fred-kennon" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP61", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Denisse Carter", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/denisse-carter" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "officer-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP62", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Christina Ainsworth", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/christina-ainsworth" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "invoked", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD30", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "IPRA §14-2-1(A)(8) — the terrorism exemption, as used", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO97", "type": "organization", "name": "Clayco", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/clayco", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "contractor" ], "stake": "A construction contractor on the campus that co-filed the EPA stormwater notice of intent with Kiewit.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-filed the EPA stormwater notice of intent with Kiewit on September 18, 2025.", "date": "2025-09-18" }, { "text": "Offered summer internships at $25 an hour at an NMSU career fair where the partners did not use the Project Jupiter name.", "date": "2026-09-18" }, { "text": "State filings show $112,200 in contributions of $1,000 or more from Oracle, STACK, Clayco and their executives to Democratic nominee Deb Haaland, and none to Republican nominee Gregg Hull." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Construction contractor on the campus; co-filed the EPA stormwater NOI (Sept 18 2025) with Kiewit", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contractor-for", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE77", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Clayco + Kiewit file EPA stormwater NOI (Sept 18 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL204", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The project's executives gave the Democratic nominee $112,200; the Republican, nothing", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-17b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO98", "type": "organization", "name": "Kiewit", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/kiewit", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "contractor" ], "stake": "A construction contractor on the campus that co-filed the EPA stormwater notice of intent with Clayco.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Co-filed the EPA stormwater notice of intent with Clayco on September 18, 2025.", "date": "2025-09-18" }, { "text": "Recorded as a contractor for BorderPlex Digital Assets." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Construction contractor on the campus; co-filed the EPA stormwater NOI with Clayco", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contractor-for", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO4", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "BorderPlex Digital Assets", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/borderplex-digital-assets" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE77", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Clayco + Kiewit file EPA stormwater NOI (Sept 18 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO99", "type": "organization", "name": "Green Chile Ventures LLC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/green-chile-ventures-llc", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Alternate business name of Oracle America Cloud Services LLC — a Delaware LLC, foreign-registered in New Mexico on Sept 18, 2025 (the day before the IRB vote), manager of record: Oracle America, Inc. NM SoS record #0008048891; registered agent Corporation Service Company, Hobbs.", "profile": { "org_kind": "special-purpose-entity", "parent": "PJO1", "roles_in_project": [ "end-user", "intervenor" ], "stake": "Oracle's New Mexico entity, registered the day before the IRB vote, and the sole shipper named for the Green Chile gas pipeline.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "An alternate business name of Oracle America Cloud Services LLC, a Delaware LLC whose manager of record is Oracle America, Inc.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Registered in New Mexico on September 18, 2025, the day before the county's $165 billion IRB vote.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-09-18" }, { "text": "The Federal Register notice for FERC docket CP26-80 names it as recipient of the pipeline's full 400,000 dekatherms a day.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Intervened in the IRB suit, describing itself as a subsidiary of Oracle.", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2026-03-20" }, { "text": "It was not the State Land Office applicant for the pipeline crossing; Energy Transfer subsidiaries were." } ], "aliases": [ "Oracle America Cloud Services LLC", "GCV" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Not just 'a subsidiary of Oracle' — the state registry shows 'Green Chile Ventures LLC' is an alternate name of Oracle America Cloud Services LLC, a Delaware company managed by Oracle America, Inc., registered in New Mexico the day before the county's $165 billion IRB vote. It is the sole customer the Green Chile pipeline exists to serve — 400,000 dekatherms a day, per the Federal Register.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Secretary of State — business search (record #0008048891, Oracle America Cloud Services LLC)", "url": "https://enterprise.sos.nm.gov/search/business", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Federal Register — Transwestern blanket-authorization notice, CP26-80 (names GCV as recipient)", "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/17/2026-03005/transwestern-pipeline-company-llc-notice-of-request-under-blanket-authorization-and-establishing", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Haussamen — GCV's motion to intervene: 'a subsidiary of Oracle'", "url": "https://haussamen.com/2025/11/05/lawsuits-may-be-slowing-project-jupiters-progress", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Pipeline Journal — federal review of the 17-mile Green Chile lateral", "url": "https://www.pipeline-journal.net/news/federal-review-underway-17-mile-dedicated-gas-pipeline-serving-major-data-center", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subsidiary-of", "raw": "subsidiary-of", "label": "Subsidiary or vehicle of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO1", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/oracle-cloud-infrastructure" }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "under-review-by", "label": "Regulated or reviewed by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO12", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "FERC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/ferc" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "intervenor-in", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE89", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Motion to dismiss DENIED in the IRB suit; shells intervene (Mar 20 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "develops", "raw": "developer-of", "label": "Develops or operates", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC4", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Green Chile pipeline (state-land crossing denied twice; rerouting)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE91", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Green Chile pipeline filed at FERC (CP26-80, Jan 29 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "cites", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJN1", "target_type": "narrative", "target_name": "Who lent Project Jupiter $165 billion?", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/narratives/who-lent-project-jupiter-165-billion" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL206", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Every Jupiter bond was bought by a company on the borrowing side", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL208", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The county's one guarantee: $11.4 million, until 2037, for benefit payments only", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-09-18", "2025-11-12b", "2026-03-20" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO100", "type": "organization", "name": "Community Action Agency of Southern NM (CAA-SNM)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/community-action-agency-of-southern-nm-caa-snm", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "nonprofit", "key_people": [ "PJP104" ], "stake": "Daisy Maldonado's employer, reported to have ordered the organization Maldonado directed to drop the lawsuit before Maldonado was fired.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Employer of Daisy Maldonado." }, { "text": "Reportedly ordered the organization Maldonado directed to drop the lawsuit; Maldonado was then fired, and the firing is the subject of a retaliation claim." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Maldonado's employer; reportedly ordered her org to drop the lawsuit, after which she was fired (retaliation claim)", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "employed-by", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP104", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Daisy Maldonado", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/daisy-maldonado" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO101", "type": "organization", "name": "Brockovich Data Center Reporting", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/brockovich-data-center-reporting", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "stake": "Erin Brockovich's national initiative on AI data centers, a crowdsourced intake and map that covers all data centers and names no specific project.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Runs 'AI Data Centers & Our Communities', a crowdsourced intake and map." }, { "text": "Covers all data centers and does not name Project Jupiter or any other specific project." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Erin Brockovich's national initiative 'AI Data Centers & Our Communities' (erin@brockovich.com) — a crowdsourced intake/map covering ALL data centers; names no specific project. The reach layer with no depth", "sources": [], "relations": [ { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "part-of", "label": "Member of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC116", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter press & watchdog ecosystem", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO103", "type": "organization", "name": "Santa Teresa Capital, LLC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/santa-teresa-capital-llc", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": "The sod farm that became the project's water supplier: holds 2,400 acre-feet/year under OSE File LRG-3150-E (of 2,596.47 afa permitted in 2013; priority dates 1966–1971; 28 authorized points of diversion), filed the emergency replacement-well request on Oct 21, 2025, and sells non-potable water to the project under contract.", "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "supplier" ], "key_people": [ "PJP115", "PJP161" ], "stake": "The sod farm whose water right is the project's water supply; it filed the emergency replacement-well request and sells non-potable water to the project under contract.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Holds 2,400 acre-feet a year under State Engineer file LRG-3150-E, of 2,596.47 acre-feet permitted in 2013, with priority dates from 1966 to 1971 and 28 authorized points of diversion." }, { "text": "The State Engineer's working estimate of about 1,100 acre-feet a year for the campus would consume roughly 46% of its right." }, { "text": "Requested emergency authorization for a replacement well on October 21, 2025, in a letter signed by agent Gilbert G. Mesa and copied to managing partner Lane Gaddy; the State Engineer authorized it on October 23.", "date": "2025-10-21" }, { "text": "The State Engineer's meter record shows 318.001 acre-feet drawn from the new well between April 14 and July 31, 2026, as cited in the Center for Biological Diversity's petition." }, { "text": "The proposed transfer of the same right to Sierra County was denied on February 25, 2026.", "date": "2026-02-25" }, { "text": "On August 23, 2026, the New Mexico Supreme Court stayed the emergency well authorization in a case naming it as real party in interest.", "date": "2026-08-23" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": " Arguably the most under-covered entity in the record: the water right it holds is the project's real water supply, and OSE's ~1,100 acre-feet/year working estimate for the campus would consume roughly 46% of it.", "sources": [ { "label": "OSE — hearing officer report & recommendation (Aug 20 2025, PDF)", "url": "https://api.realfile.rtsclients.com/PublicFiles/5f809ddfc9864dad89f9d03375144a14/a3304a88-9226-4245-8053-088e86c73e8f/2025-08-20%20Report%20%20Recommendation.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "U.S. Supreme Court — Order entering the decree (May 26 2026)", "url": "https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/052626zor_6j36.pdf", "kind": "primary-source" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD47", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "OSE notice — LRG-03150-POD50 emergency well application (Oct 21 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "lobbies-for", "raw": "registered", "label": "Retains as lobbyist", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP115", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Lane Gaddy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/lane-gaddy" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Concerns", "direction": "in", "target": "PJCL110", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The right is 2,400 AFY — campus demand ≈ half of it", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE101", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Sierra County transfer of the same right DENIED (Feb 25 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "supplies", "raw": "supplies", "label": "Supplies", "direction": "out", "target": "PJC1", "target_type": "concept", "target_name": "Project Jupiter campus", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "co-owns-rights-with", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO14", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/camino-real-regional-utility-authority-crrua" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL132", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Protests cannot stop the pumping — by statute", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL133", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The project would consume roughly 46% of the sod farm's entire water right", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "holds-split-of", "label": "Owned by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO118", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "IHR Holdings, LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/ihr-holdings-llc" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL138", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Nothing in the decree reconciles a new industrial groundwater user with the retirement obligation", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE125", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The land/water split is created (Dec 23 2013 — Instrument #1330941)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "contact-at", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP161", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Gilbert G. Mesa", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gilbert-g-mesa" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE129", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Supreme Court stays the emergency well authorization (Aug 23 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJD54", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "OSE Emergency Authorization to Drill and Use Replacement Well LRG-03150-POD 50 (Oct 23 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-10-21", "2025-10-23", "2026-04-16", "2026-05-26b", "2026-08-20", "2026-08-23" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO104", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Department of Justice", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-department-of-justice", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "The state attorney general's office (AG Raúl Torrez); opened the July 2026 investigation into fraudulent public comments on the Project Jupiter air permit.", "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "roles_in_project": [ "oversight" ], "key_people": [ "PJP129", "PJP140" ], "stake": "The state attorney general's office, which opened an investigation into fraudulent public comments on the air permit and later backed both emergency petitions against two state agencies.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Led by Attorney General Raúl Torrez." }, { "text": "Opened an investigation into public comments filed on the Project Jupiter air permit in residents' and officials' names without their consent.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-07-09" }, { "text": "Filed responses supporting both emergency petitions: in the air case, arguing NMED violated the petitioner's due-process rights; in the water case, arguing § 72-12-22 does not reach a change of purpose and place.", "date": "2026-09-02" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The state's law-enforcement counterweight enters the story: after residents and public officials reported comments filed in their names without consent, the Department of Justice opened an investigation into the Project Jupiter permit record itself.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMDOJ letter to NMED Sec. Kenney (Jul 9 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://kvia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-09-NMDOJ-Ltr-to-NMED-JKenney-re-YGI-.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NMDOJ — press releases", "url": "https://nmdoj.gov/press-releases/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE107", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM DOJ opens fraud investigation into the permit comments (Jul 9 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP129", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Raúl Torrez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/raul-torrez" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP140", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Billy J. Jimenez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/billy-j-jimenez" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE140", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Attorney General takes the petitioners' side against two state agencies (Sept 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-09", "2026-09-02b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO105", "type": "organization", "name": "Public Citizen", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/public-citizen", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "National consumer-advocacy nonprofit; filed a FERC protest against the Green Chile pipeline (docket CP26-80), arguing the application is incomplete.", "profile": { "org_kind": "nonprofit", "key_people": [ "PJP142" ], "stake": "A national consumer-advocacy nonprofit that filed a FERC protest arguing the Green Chile pipeline application is incomplete.", "stance": { "position": "opposes", "src": [ 0 ], "basis": "Filed a FERC protest asking that the Green Chile pipeline application be rejected as incomplete." }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "Protested the Green Chile pipeline at FERC in docket CP26-80, arguing the application must be rejected as incomplete.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-04-13" }, { "text": "Tyson Slocum is the staff member the record ties to the protest." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The national watchdog that took the pipeline fight federal — its FERC protest argues the Green Chile application must be rejected as incomplete.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Citizen — FERC protest, docket CP26-80 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/GreenChile.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE109", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Public Citizen protests the pipeline at FERC (Apr 13 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP142", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Tyson Slocum", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/tyson-slocum" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO106", "type": "organization", "name": "NM State Investment Council (SIC)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-state-investment-council-sic", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "The state's sovereign investment fund; its Chief Communications Officer said on the record it 'probably' holds indirect exposure to Apaluma via its Crosslink fund positions.", "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "key_people": [ "PJP138" ], "stake": "New Mexico's sovereign investment fund, which by its spokesman's on-record reasoning likely holds indirect exposure to Apaluma, the regulator's data contractor.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Its Chief Communications Officer said on the record that it 'probably' holds indirect exposure to Apaluma through its positions in Crosslink's 2023-vintage funds.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Apaluma, the regulator's data contractor, was founded by the governor's former economic development secretary." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "New Mexico's own investment fund enters the conflict map: by its spokesman's on-record reasoning, its positions in Crosslink's 2023-vintage funds likely give the state indirect ownership in Apaluma — the regulator's data contractor, founded by the governor's former economic development secretary.", "sources": [ { "label": "The Candle — SIC likely has indirect exposure (Wollmann)", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/sic-likely-has-indirect-exposure-on-5-5-million-seed-money-to-company-founded-by-governors-former-economic-secretary/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL124", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The state's own investment fund likely holds indirect exposure to Apaluma", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP138", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Charles Wollmann", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/charles-wollmann" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE110", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Apaluma closes a $5.55M seed round — announced the week the decision was due", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO107", "type": "organization", "name": "The Candle", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/the-candle", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Investigative online outlet (Bruce Wetherbee, editor) focused on NM state government; broke the Apaluma contract mechanics, the promo-video takedown, and the SIC exposure — its editor is also a pro se intervenor in the air-permit hearing.", "profile": { "org_kind": "media", "roles_in_project": [ "press" ], "key_people": [ "PJP130" ], "stake": "An investigative outlet on New Mexico state government that reported the Apaluma contract mechanics; its editor is also a pro se intervenor in the air-permit hearing.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Edited by Bruce Wetherbee, who is also a pro se intervenor in the air-permit hearing." }, { "text": "Reported the no-bid NMED contracts to Apaluma, worth about $1.4 million.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Reported the Apaluma promo video featuring NMED Secretary Kenney and its later removal." }, { "text": "Reported the State Investment Council's likely indirect exposure to Apaluma.", "src": [ 1 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The small outlet doing the document work: internal NMED emails, contract amendments, the vanished promo video, the state investment fund's exposure. Its editor didn't stop at reporting — he intervened in the permit hearing itself.", "sources": [ { "label": "The Candle — Keyes no-bid deal", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/former-nm-economic-secretary-alicia-keyes-scores-big-no-bid-deal-converting-state-enviro-data-for-her-ai-agent-luma/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "The Candle — SIC exposure", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/sic-likely-has-indirect-exposure-on-5-5-million-seed-money-to-company-founded-by-governors-former-economic-secretary/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP130", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Bruce Wetherbee", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/bruce-wetherbee" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "reported", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE61", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Apaluma awarded ~$1.48M no-bid NMED contracts", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "reported", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE111", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Apaluma promo video — Kenney stars, then it vanishes", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO108", "type": "organization", "name": "New Energy Economy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-energy-economy", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Santa Fe energy-advocacy nonprofit (Mariel Nanasi, executive director; counsel Christopher Dodd); party to the air-permit hearing and movant on the motion to dismiss or continue the application for lack of a fuel supply.", "profile": { "org_kind": "nonprofit", "hq": "Santa Fe, NM", "roles_in_project": [ "intervenor", "litigant" ], "key_people": [ "PJP134", "PJP152" ], "stake": "A Santa Fe energy-advocacy nonprofit that is a party to the air-permit hearing and moved to dismiss or postpone the application for lack of a fuel supply.", "stance": { "position": "opposes", "src": [ 0 ], "basis": "Moved to dismiss or postpone the air-permit application for lack of a lawful fuel supply." }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "Moved to dismiss or continue the application because the campus has no lawful way to get its gas; an August 5, 2026 order directed the applicant to answer, and the hearing officer later withdrew that order as 'inadvisably filed.'", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-05" }, { "text": "Its motion for reconsideration of the discovery denial was denied on August 12, 2026.", "date": "2026-08-12" }, { "text": "In New Energy Economy v. NMED, the New Mexico Supreme Court stayed the entire proceeding on Air Quality Permit 10883 on August 23, 2026, while it considered the group's petition.", "date": "2026-08-23" }, { "text": "The Attorney General filed a response supporting its petition in September 2026.", "date": "2026-09" }, { "text": "On September 17, 2026, the Court denied the petition without explanation and lifted the stay; Mariel Nanasi said the group hoped for 'a fair hearing.'", "date": "2026-09-17" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The group that turned the pipeline denials into a permit problem: its motion asks NMED to dismiss or postpone the application outright because the campus has no lawful way to get the gas it needs — and the hearing officer ordered the company to answer.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — Order on NEE motion (Aug 5 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-04-AQB-26-57-Order-Briefing-Dismissal-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (party list)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE113", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Show-cause order: can the campus be built without the pipeline? (Aug 5 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP134", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Mariel Nanasi", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/mariel-nanasi" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP152", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Christopher Dodd", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/christopher-dodd" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "filed", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE128", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NM Supreme Court stays the air proceeding (Aug 23 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE138", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Supreme Court refuses to let the air case restart in pieces (Sept 1 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE145", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Supreme Court denies both petitions and lifts both stays (Sept 17 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29", "2026-08-05", "2026-08-23", "2026-09-01", "2026-09-17" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO109", "type": "organization", "name": "IBEW Local Union 611", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/ibew-local-union-611", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Electrical workers' local; entered the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing as a party (representatives Mark Trujillo and Stephanie Maez).", "profile": { "org_kind": "union", "roles_in_project": [ "intervenor" ], "stake": "An electrical workers' local that entered the air-permit hearing as a party.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Entered the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing as a party in the summer of 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026" }, { "text": "Represented in the hearing by Mark Trujillo and Stephanie Maez.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "One of the building-trades unions that entered the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing as a party in the summer of 2026 — the construction workforce showing up where the permit is decided.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — service list, Order on NEE motion (Aug 5 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-04-AQB-26-57-Order-Briefing-Dismissal-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO110", "type": "organization", "name": "LIUNA Local 16", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/liuna-local-16", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Laborers' International Union of North America local; entered the air-permit hearing as a party (representative Darrell Deaguero).", "profile": { "org_kind": "union", "roles_in_project": [ "intervenor" ], "stake": "A Laborers' International Union of North America local that entered the air-permit hearing as a party.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Entered the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing as a party in the summer of 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026" }, { "text": "Represented in the hearing by Darrell Deaguero.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "One of the building-trades unions that entered the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing as a party in the summer of 2026 — the construction workforce showing up where the permit is decided.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — service list, Order on NEE motion (Aug 5 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-04-AQB-26-57-Order-Briefing-Dismissal-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO111", "type": "organization", "name": "United Association Local 412", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/united-association-local-412", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Plumbers and pipefitters' local; entered the air-permit hearing as a party (counsel Andre Makarski; Courtenay Eichhorst appears for the NM Building & Construction Trades Council).", "profile": { "org_kind": "union", "roles_in_project": [ "intervenor" ], "stake": "A plumbers and pipefitters' local that entered the air-permit hearing as a party.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Entered the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing as a party in the summer of 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026" }, { "text": "Its counsel is Andre Makarski; Courtenay Eichhorst appears for the NM Building & Construction Trades Council.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "One of the building-trades unions that entered the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing as a party in the summer of 2026 — the construction workforce showing up where the permit is decided.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — service list, Order on NEE motion (Aug 5 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-04-AQB-26-57-Order-Briefing-Dismissal-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO112", "type": "organization", "name": "Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No. 49", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/sheet-metal-workers-local-union-no-49", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Sheet metal workers' local; entered the air-permit hearing as a party (counsel Isaiah Zemke).", "profile": { "org_kind": "union", "roles_in_project": [ "intervenor" ], "stake": "A sheet metal workers' local that entered the air-permit hearing as a party.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Entered the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing as a party in the summer of 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026" }, { "text": "Its counsel is Isaiah Zemke.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "One of the building-trades unions that entered the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing as a party in the summer of 2026 — the construction workforce showing up where the permit is decided.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — service list, Order on NEE motion (Aug 5 2026, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-08-04-AQB-26-57-Order-Briefing-Dismissal-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO113", "type": "organization", "name": "Center for Biological Diversity", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/center-for-biological-diversity", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "National environmental nonprofit; a party of record in the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing (counsel Colin Cox and Gail Evans) and a protestor on the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.", "profile": { "org_kind": "nonprofit", "roles_in_project": [ "intervenor", "litigant" ], "key_people": [ "PJP136", "PJP137" ], "stake": "A national environmental nonprofit that is a party to the air-permit hearing, a protestor on the Green Chile pipeline at FERC, and the petitioner in the emergency-well case before the state Supreme Court.", "stance": { "position": "opposes", "src": [ 1 ], "basis": "Joined the coalition protest against the Green Chile pipeline at FERC." }, "key_facts": [ { "text": "A party of record in the air-permit hearing, with counsel Colin Cox and Gail Evans.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Filed its protest against the emergency well on the January 9, 2026 deadline, one of thirty-two protests on file.", "date": "2026-01-09" }, { "text": "With the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, moved on August 19, 2026 to disqualify hearing officer Max Shepherd, who recused three days later.", "date": "2026-08-19" }, { "text": "Filed a 151-page emergency petition against the State Engineer on August 20, 2026, citing a meter record of 318.001 acre-feet drawn from the new well between April 14 and July 31, 2026.", "date": "2026-08-20" }, { "text": "The Supreme Court stayed the emergency well authorization on August 23, 2026, then denied the petition and lifted the stay on September 17, 2026.", "date": "2026-09-17" }, { "text": "Protested the Green Chile pipeline at FERC as part of a coalition.", "src": [ 1 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "One of the two environmental groups that became formal parties to the permit hearing — and the one that moved to reverse the hearing officer after he pulled the hearing five weeks earlier.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (party list)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "WELC — coalition FERC protest", "url": "https://westernlaw.org/environmental-orgs-file-protest-against-green-chile-pipeline-in-southern-new-mexico", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP136", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Colin Cox", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/colin-cox" }, { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP137", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Gail Evans", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gail-evans" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE136", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The hearing officer recuses himself (Aug 22 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE145", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Supreme Court denies both petitions and lifts both stays (Sept 17 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Involves", "direction": "in", "target": "PJCL187", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "One unit was tested. The permit scales it to 2,462 megawatts.", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29", "2026-08-10c", "2026-08-19", "2026-08-22", "2026-09-17" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO114", "type": "organization", "name": "Western Environmental Law Center", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/western-environmental-law-center", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Public-interest environmental law firm; counsel for the coalition that protested the Green Chile pipeline at FERC (staff attorney Morgan O'Grady).", "profile": { "org_kind": "law-firm", "roles_in_project": [ "legal-counsel" ], "key_people": [ "PJP145" ], "stake": "A public-interest environmental law firm that represents the coalition that protested the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Counsel for the coalition that protested the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Staff attorney Morgan O'Grady works on the protest." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The law firm behind the coalition's FERC protest against the pipeline that would fuel the campus.", "sources": [ { "label": "WELC — coalition FERC protest", "url": "https://westernlaw.org/environmental-orgs-file-protest-against-green-chile-pipeline-in-southern-new-mexico", "kind": "other" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP145", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Morgan O'Grady", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/morgan-o-grady" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO115", "type": "organization", "name": "Crosslink Capital", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/crosslink-capital", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "San Francisco venture firm; lead investor in Apaluma's $5.55M seed round. The NM State Investment Council holds positions in its 2023-vintage funds — the likely path of the state's indirect exposure.", "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "hq": "San Francisco, CA", "key_people": [ "PJP139" ], "stake": "A San Francisco venture firm that led the seed round into Apaluma, the regulator's data contractor, and whose funds hold State Investment Council money.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Lead investor in Apaluma's $5.55 million seed round.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The New Mexico State Investment Council holds positions in its 2023-vintage funds, the likely path of the state's indirect exposure to Apaluma.", "src": [ 1 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The venture firm that led the round into the regulator's data contractor — and whose funds the State Investment Council is invested in, making the state a probable indirect owner.", "sources": [ { "label": "PR Newswire — Apaluma $5.55M seed", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/apaluma-announces-5-55-million-seed-funding-to-scale-unified-government-data-platform-302828065.html", "kind": "primary-source" }, { "label": "The Candle — SIC indirect exposure", "url": "https://thecandlepublishing.com/sic-likely-has-indirect-exposure-on-5-5-million-seed-money-to-company-founded-by-governors-former-economic-secretary/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "employed-by", "raw": "staffs", "label": "Employs", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP139", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Gabby Contro", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/gabby-contro" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO116", "type": "organization", "name": "Red Chiles A, B, C & D, LLC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/red-chiles-a-b-c-d-llc", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Four Delaware LLCs — the data-center entities and the IRB Series 2025B companies; Green Chile Ventures is the separate Series 2025C company.", "profile": { "org_kind": "special-purpose-entity", "roles_in_project": [ "tenant" ], "stake": "Four Delaware LLCs that are the data-center entities and the companies on the Series 2025B side of the $165 billion IRB structure.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Four Delaware LLCs named as the data-center entities in the IRB inducement resolution.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The Series 2025B companies under the IRB structure; Green Chile Ventures is the Series 2025C company.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Signed the executed Community Benefits Agreement (November 2025) through one authorized signatory for all four entities: Tim Kuester, STACK Americas' Chief Legal & Administrative Officer.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "A Blue Owl REIT, Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust, lists Red Chiles A–D, their holding companies and the Red Chiles Sub bond purchasers among its subsidiaries; the filing does not state its ownership percentage.", "src": [ 2 ], "date": "2026-03" }, { "text": "Red Chiles Sub A–D, LLC bought the four $6,250,000,000 Series 2025B subseries; Tim Kuester signed for both the Red Chiles companies and their purchasers.", "src": [ 3 ], "date": "2025-11-12" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Four more Delaware shells in the lessee stack — the data-center entities holding the Series 2025B side of the $165B bond structure.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB Inducement Resolution (Aug 26 2025, PDF)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Doña Ana County — Project Jupiter Community Benefits Agreement, executed (Nov 2025, PDF)", "url": "https://cms2.revize.com/revize/donaanacounty/Documents/About%20Us/Economic%20Development%20Projects/Community%20Benefits%20Agreement%20(CBA)%20Executed.pdf?t=202606181101020&t=202606181101020", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust — FY2025 Form 10-K, Exhibit 21.1, list of subsidiaries (filed Mar 2026)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944366/000194436626000020/exhibit211orent2025xlistof.htm", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB Series 2025B, executed & recorded (Nov 12 2025, PDF)", "url": "https://www.donaana.gov/Documents/About%20Us/Economic%20Development%20Projects/IRB%20Series%202025B%20-%20Executed%20%26%20Recorded.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "authorized-signatory-for", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP114", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Tim Kuester", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/tim-kuester" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "cites", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJN1", "target_type": "narrative", "target_name": "Who lent Project Jupiter $165 billion?", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/narratives/who-lent-project-jupiter-165-billion" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL206", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "Every Jupiter bond was bought by a company on the borrowing side", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "owns", "label": "Owned by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO148", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-real-estate-net-lease-trust" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL207", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "A Blue Owl trust lists the Red Chiles companies as its subsidiaries", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL209", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The benefits agreement can be dropped if the companies give up the tax break by Dec 31, 2026", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-11-12b", "2026-03-13" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO117", "type": "organization", "name": "SAC III Acquisition Co., LLC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/sac-iii-acquisition-co-llc", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "The county's purchasing agent under the IRB structure: equipment is deemed purchased by Doña Ana County via Type 9 nontaxable transaction certificates (NMAC 3.2.212.22) with SAC III and the companies acting as the county's agents — the mechanism that produces the gross-receipts-tax exemption.", "profile": { "org_kind": "special-purpose-entity", "stake": "The county's purchasing agent under the IRB structure, the mechanism that makes the buildout's purchases exempt from gross receipts tax.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Equipment is deemed purchased by Doña Ana County through Type 9 nontaxable transaction certificates (NMAC 3.2.212.22), with SAC III and the companies acting as the county's agents.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "New Mexico statute has no data-center tax break; the record describes this structure as the exemption." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The quiet mechanism of the tax benefit: purchases run through the county's name using Type 9 certificates, making a private buildout tax-exempt as 'sales to a government entity.' There is no data-center tax break in New Mexico statute — this structure is the exemption.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB Inducement Resolution (PDF)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL135", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "New Mexico has no data-center tax break — the exemption is structural", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subsidiary-of", "raw": "vehicle-for", "label": "Subsidiary or vehicle of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO9", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Doña Ana County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/dona-ana-county-commission" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO118", "type": "organization", "name": "IHR Holdings, LLC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/ihr-holdings-llc", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "Holds 196.47 acre-feet/year split from the sod-farm water right (OSE File LRG-3150-EA).", "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "The holder of a smaller water right split from the sod-farm right that anchors the project's water supply.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Holds 196.47 acre-feet a year split from the sod-farm water right, under State Engineer file LRG-3150-EA.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The split comes from the same 2013 permit as Santa Teresa Capital's right." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The smaller sibling of the sod-farm right — 196.47 acre-feet a year, split off from the same 2013 permit that anchors the project's water supply.", "sources": [ { "label": "OSE — hearing officer report & recommendation (Aug 20 2025, PDF)", "url": "https://api.realfile.rtsclients.com/PublicFiles/5f809ddfc9864dad89f9d03375144a14/a3304a88-9226-4245-8053-088e86c73e8f/2025-08-20%20Report%20%20Recommendation.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "holds-split-of", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO103", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Santa Teresa Capital, LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/santa-teresa-capital-llc" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO119", "type": "organization", "name": "Youth United for Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/youth-united-for-climate-crisis-action-yucca", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "New Mexico youth climate group; a party to the air-permit hearing (Esperanza Chairez, Zephyr Jaramillo). Its acronym collides, pointedly, with the applicant's name.", "profile": { "org_kind": "community-group", "roles_in_project": [ "intervenor" ], "key_people": [ "PJP153" ], "stake": "A New Mexico youth climate group that is a party to the air-permit hearing; its acronym matches the applicant's name.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "A party to the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Esperanza Chairez is a member the record names in the proceeding." }, { "text": "Its acronym, YUCCA, matches the name of the applicant, Yucca Growth Infrastructure." } ], "aliases": [ "YUCCA" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The youth climate group at the party table — YUCCA versus Yucca, the acronym collision nobody planned.", "sources": [ { "label": "NMED — Amended Scheduling Order (party list, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/07/2026-07-29-AQB-26-57-Amended-Sch-Order-filed.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "member-of", "raw": "member-of", "label": "Has as member", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP153", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Esperanza Chairez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/esperanza-chairez" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-07-29" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO120", "type": "organization", "name": "Gadsden Independent School District", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/gadsden-independent-school-district", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "The school district covering the project area and the largest school recipient of PILOT money: $820,456 a year — about $70 per student.", "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "stake": "The school district covering the project area and the largest school recipient of the project's payment in lieu of taxes.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Receives $820,456 a year from the PILOT, about $70 per student.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Its students live closest to the campus." }, { "text": "Oracle, the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico and the district launched a $1 million fund for the district's teachers and schools on September 21, 2026.", "date": "2026-09-21" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The district whose students live closest to the campus. Its share of the $165 billion project's payment-in-lieu-of-taxes: $820,456 a year — roughly seventy dollars per student.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB Inducement Resolution (PDF)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL126", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The PILOT is 0.218% of the bond — and the county keeps 89.9% of it", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL127", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "What hosting $165 billion is worth per student: $70 (Gadsden), $10 (LCPS)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "beneficiary-of", "raw": "benefits", "label": "Benefits", "direction": "in", "target": "PJPR5", "target_type": "promise", "target_name": "$360M in PILOT payments over 30 years; first $50M of GRT to a community water fund; >$600M GRT to state/county.", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE158", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle launches a $1 million Gadsden ISD education fund (Sept 21 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-21b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO121", "type": "organization", "name": "Las Cruces Public Schools", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/las-cruces-public-schools", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "PILOT recipient: $240,018 a year — about $10 per student.", "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "stake": "The county's largest school district, which receives a share of the project's payment in lieu of taxes.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Receives $240,018 a year from the PILOT, about $10 per student.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The county's largest school district." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The county's largest district receives $240,018 a year from the PILOT — about ten dollars per student.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB Inducement Resolution (PDF)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL127", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "What hosting $165 billion is worth per student: $70 (Gadsden), $10 (LCPS)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "beneficiary-of", "raw": "benefits", "label": "Benefits", "direction": "in", "target": "PJPR5", "target_type": "promise", "target_name": "$360M in PILOT payments over 30 years; first $50M of GRT to a community water fund; >$600M GRT to state/county.", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO122", "type": "organization", "name": "Hatch Valley Public Schools", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/hatch-valley-public-schools", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "PILOT recipient: $146,276 a year. (Per-student figure held pending an authoritative enrollment count.)", "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "stake": "The smallest of the three school districts that receive the project's payment in lieu of taxes.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Receives $146,276 a year from the PILOT.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The smallest of the three PILOT school districts." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The smallest of the three PILOT districts — $146,276 a year.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County — IRB Inducement Resolution (PDF)", "url": "https://haussamen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.26.25.IRBResolution.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "beneficiary-of", "raw": "benefits", "label": "Benefits", "direction": "in", "target": "PJPR5", "target_type": "promise", "target_name": "$360M in PILOT payments over 30 years; first $50M of GRT to a community water fund; >$600M GRT to state/county.", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO123", "type": "organization", "name": "Xomad", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/xomad", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": "California influencer-marketing firm; recruited New Mexico social-media creators for a paid Project Jupiter campaign, June 17–30, 2026. Also the firm behind the state Health Care Authority's 'Renew NM' Medicaid campaign.", "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "A California influencer-marketing firm that recruited New Mexico creators for a paid Project Jupiter campaign in the two weeks before the air-permit comment period closed.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Recruited New Mexico social-media creators for a paid Project Jupiter campaign from June 17 to 30, 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-06-17" }, { "text": "The campaign's stated goals included helping 'increase positive comments'; it ended days before the July 6 comment deadline." }, { "text": "Also ran the state Health Care Authority's 'Renew NM' Medicaid campaign; the Authority says it knew nothing about the Project Jupiter work.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The marketing firm that ran a paid influencer campaign for the project in the two weeks before the comment period closed — the same firm the state had hired for its Medicaid outreach. The Health Care Authority says it knew nothing about the Jupiter work.", "sources": [ { "label": "Source NM / KANW — Xomad influencer campaign (June 2026)", "url": "https://sourcenm.com/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE124", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "A paid influencer campaign runs in the fortnight before comments close (Jun 17–30 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-06-17" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO124", "type": "organization", "name": "Santa Teresa Land LLC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/santa-teresa-land-llc", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "landowner" ], "key_people": [ "PJP162" ], "stake": "A landholding company that acquired part of the Santa Teresa land assembly in the December 2013 transaction that split the land from the water.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Its president is Christopher O. Lyons." }, { "text": "Acquired land in the December 23, 2013 transaction recorded as Instrument #1330941.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2013-12-23" }, { "text": "A distinct entity from Santa Teresa Capital, the water company, and from Santa Teresa LLC; the three share a place-name." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Landholding company, president Christopher O. Lyons. Acquired part of the Santa Teresa assembly in the December 2013 transaction. NOT Santa Teresa Capital (the water company) and NOT Santa Teresa LLC — three distinct entities that share a place-name.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP162", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Christopher O. Lyons", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/christopher-o-lyons" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE125", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The land/water split is created (Dec 23 2013 — Instrument #1330941)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2013-12-23" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO125", "type": "organization", "name": "Paseo Del Norte LLC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/paseo-del-norte-llc", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "landowner" ], "key_people": [ "PJP162" ], "stake": "A landholding company from the 2013 land and water split whose land holds the emergency well's point of diversion and whose parcels were sold into the 2025 assembly.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Its president is Christopher O. Lyons." }, { "text": "Acquired land in the December 23, 2013 split recorded as Instrument #1330941.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2013-12-23" }, { "text": "The emergency well's point of diversion sits on its land." }, { "text": "Mortgaged to HD Lending in 2024, with parcels released as they sold into the 2025 assembly.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2024" }, { "text": "Hecate Energy and EDF Power Solutions are recorded as lessees of its land." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Landholding company, president Christopher O. Lyons. Acquired land in the 2013 split; the emergency well's point of diversion sits on its land; mortgaged to HD Lending in 2024, with parcels released as they sold into the 2025 assembly.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "leads", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP162", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Christopher O. Lyons", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/christopher-o-lyons" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE125", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The land/water split is created (Dec 23 2013 — Instrument #1330941)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "represents", "raw": "counsel-to", "label": "Represented by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO128", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blank Rome LLP", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blank-rome-llp" }, { "predicate": "represents", "raw": "counsel-to", "label": "Represented by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO129", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/pillsbury-winthrop-shaw-pittman-llp" }, { "predicate": "tenant-of", "raw": "lessee-of", "label": "Has as tenant", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO132", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Hecate Energy", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/hecate-energy" }, { "predicate": "tenant-of", "raw": "lessee-of", "label": "Has as tenant", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO133", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "EDF Power Solutions", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/edf-power-solutions" }, { "predicate": "finances", "raw": "finances", "label": "Financed by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO134", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "HD Lending LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/hd-lending-llc" } ], "timeline": [ "2013-12-23" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO126", "type": "organization", "name": "The Verde entities (VROP · VST · VBI)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/the-verde-entities-vrop-vst-vbi", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "key_people": [ "PJP163" ], "stake": "The water side of the 2013 split: affiliates that sold the land and reserved easements over the wells in State Engineer file LRG-3150.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Verde Realty Operating Partnership and its affiliates, descended from Verde Realty." }, { "text": "In the December 23, 2013 transaction, sold the land and reserved easements over the wells in file LRG-3150; the agreement was signed by COO David Birdwell.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2013-12-23" }, { "text": "Section 3.1 of the 2013 instrument grants the landowner the right to relocate wells 'to accommodate development or redevelopment.'" }, { "text": "Their notice address is care of IDI, Atlanta." } ], "aliases": [ "Verde Realty Operating Partnership", "VROP", "VST", "VBI" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Verde Realty Operating Partnership and its affiliates — the water side of the 2013 split. Sold the land, reserved easements over the wells in OSE file LRG-3150, signed by COO David Birdwell. Descend from Verde Realty; notice address c/o IDI, Atlanta.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "leads", "raw": "top-manager-of", "label": "Led by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP163", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "David Birdwell", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/david-birdwell" }, { "predicate": "party-to", "raw": "party-to", "label": "Party to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE125", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The land/water split is created (Dec 23 2013 — Instrument #1330941)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "merged-with", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO127", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "IDI", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/idi" } ], "timeline": [ "2013-12-23" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO127", "type": "organization", "name": "IDI", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/idi", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "hq": "Atlanta, GA", "stake": "An Atlanta real-estate firm that merged with Verde Realty in 2013 and is the notice address for the Verde entities in the easement agreement.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Merged with Verde Realty in 2013.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2013" }, { "text": "The notice address for the Verde entities in the 2013 easement agreement.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Atlanta real-estate firm that merged with Verde Realty in 2013; the notice address for the Verde entities in the easement agreement.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "partner-of", "raw": "merged-with", "label": "Partner of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO126", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "The Verde entities (VROP · VST · VBI)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/the-verde-entities-vrop-vst-vbi" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO128", "type": "organization", "name": "Blank Rome LLP", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blank-rome-llp", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "law-firm", "roles_in_project": [ "legal-counsel" ], "stake": "A law firm that was counsel to Paseo Del Norte in the 2013 easement agreement.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Counsel to Paseo Del Norte in the 2013 easement agreement.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2013" }, { "text": "Its notice address in the agreement is in New York.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Counsel to Paseo Del Norte in the 2013 easement agreement — notice address at The Chrysler Building, New York.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "represents", "raw": "counsel-to", "label": "Legal counsel to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO125", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Paseo Del Norte LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/paseo-del-norte-llc" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO129", "type": "organization", "name": "Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/pillsbury-winthrop-shaw-pittman-llp", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "law-firm", "hq": "San Francisco, CA", "roles_in_project": [ "legal-counsel" ], "stake": "A San Francisco law firm that was recording counsel on the Paseo Del Norte option in the land assembly.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Recording counsel on the Paseo Del Norte option in the land assembly.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Named in Doña Ana County Clerk recorded instruments.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "San Francisco — recording counsel on the Paseo Del Norte option in the land assembly.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "represents", "raw": "counsel-to", "label": "Legal counsel to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO125", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Paseo Del Norte LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/paseo-del-norte-llc" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO130", "type": "organization", "name": "Kirkland & Ellis LLP", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/kirkland-ellis-llp", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "law-firm", "hq": "Chicago, IL", "roles_in_project": [ "legal-counsel" ], "stake": "A Chicago law firm that was counsel on the SI SNM01Expansion conveyance in the November 2025 land closing.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Counsel on the conveyance to SI SNM01Expansion, LLC in the November 12, 2025 closing.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-11-12" }, { "text": "Named in Doña Ana County Clerk recorded instruments.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Chicago — counsel on the SI SNM01Expansion conveyance in the November 2025 closing. Two top-five national firms on a set of Doña Ana County land deeds is a statement about transaction weight.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "represents", "raw": "counsel-to", "label": "Legal counsel to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO135", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "SI SNM01Expansion, LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/si-snm01expansion-llc" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO131", "type": "organization", "name": "RnM Water Solutions", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/rnm-water-solutions", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "contractor" ], "stake": "The well driller named on the emergency replacement-well application.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Well driller, License 1828, named on the emergency well application.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "The existing well was plugged." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Well driller (License 1828) named on the emergency well application; the existing well was plugged.", "sources": [ { "label": "OSE — hearing officer report on LRG-03150-E (Aug 20 2025)", "url": "https://api.realfile.rtsclients.com/PublicFiles/5f809ddfc9864dad89f9d03375144a14/a3304a88-9226-4245-8053-088e86c73e8f/2025-08-20%20Report%20%20Recommendation.pdf", "kind": "government" }, { "label": "CBD — Emergency Verified Petition for Writ of Mandamus (filed Aug 20 2026, 151 pp, PDF), carrying the Oct 21 2025 emergency application as an attachment", "url": "https://biologicaldiversity.org/programs/climate_law_institute/pdfs/26-08-20-NM-Final-Writ-w-attach.pdf", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contractor-for", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE100", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Emergency water application filed — one month after the vote (Oct 21 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-10-21" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO132", "type": "organization", "name": "Hecate Energy", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/hecate-energy", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "A utility-scale solar and storage developer that holds recorded lease memoranda on land in the same assembly as the campus.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Holds recorded lease memoranda from 2021 and 2026 on Paseo Del Norte land in the same assembly.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Lease memoranda are land positions, not built projects; the record does not claim the campus could have been solar." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Utility-scale solar and storage developer holding recorded lease memoranda (2021 and 2026) on land in the same assembly. Lease memoranda are land positions, not built projects — this record does not claim the campus could have been solar; it records that solar developers hold positions there.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "tenant-of", "raw": "lessee-of", "label": "Tenant or customer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO125", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Paseo Del Norte LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/paseo-del-norte-llc" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO133", "type": "organization", "name": "EDF Power Solutions", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/edf-power-solutions", "verification": "caveated", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "A renewables developer that holds a recorded lease memorandum on land in the same assembly as the campus.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Holds a recorded lease memorandum from October 2025 on Paseo Del Norte land in the same assembly.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-10" }, { "text": "A land position, not a built project." } ], "aliases": [ "EDF Renewables" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Renewables developer (EDF Renewables) holding a recorded lease memorandum (October 2025) on land in the same assembly. A land position, not a built project.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "tenant-of", "raw": "lessee-of", "label": "Tenant or customer of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO125", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Paseo Del Norte LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/paseo-del-norte-llc" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO134", "type": "organization", "name": "HD Lending LLC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/hd-lending-llc", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "stake": "The mortgagee of Paseo Del Norte, whose partial releases track parcels sold into the campus land assembly.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Mortgagee of Paseo Del Norte since April 2024.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2024-04" }, { "text": "Recorded partial releases as parcels sold into the assembly, including one six days after the BorderPlex deed.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Mortgagee of Paseo Del Norte since April 2024, with partial releases recorded as parcels sold into the assembly — including one six days after the BorderPlex deed.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "finances", "raw": "finances", "label": "Finances", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO125", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Paseo Del Norte LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/paseo-del-norte-llc" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO135", "type": "organization", "name": "SI SNM01Expansion, LLC", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/si-snm01expansion-llc", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "special-purpose-entity", "roles_in_project": [ "landowner" ], "stake": "The entity that received a 702-acre parcel in the November 12, 2025 land closing, a tract larger than the announced campus footprint.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Received a 702-acre parcel in the November 12, 2025 closing, larger than the announced campus footprint.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-11-12" }, { "text": "The closing was recorded as consecutive instruments #2525177 through #2525188 on a single day.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Kirkland & Ellis was counsel on the conveyance." }, { "text": "The record states what the deed says: the name, the parcel and the date; its ultimate ownership is not established in the record." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The entity that received the 702-acre parcel in the November 12, 2025 closing — larger than the announced campus footprint. What this record can say about it is what the deed says: the name, the parcel, and the date. Its ultimate ownership is not established in this record.", "sources": [ { "label": "Doña Ana County Clerk — recorded instruments", "url": "https://www.donaanacounty.org/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "represents", "raw": "counsel-to", "label": "Represented by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO130", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Kirkland & Ellis LLP", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/kirkland-ellis-llp" } ], "timeline": [ "2025-11-12" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO136", "type": "organization", "name": "Arable", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/arable", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "key_people": [ "PJP169" ], "stake": "An agricultural-technology company that is Oracle's partner in a Rio Grande–Bravo conservation program meant to produce the water savings Oracle counts against the campus's own use.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Sells in-field sensors and agronomy support so growers can irrigate on live conditions instead of fixed schedules.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Announced with Oracle on August 11, 2026 a program in the Rio Grande–Bravo watershed to conserve about 21 million gallons a year.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "Oracle frames the savings as more than twenty times the water needed to run the campus's cooling and power systems; an independent assessor and published validation reports are promised.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "By its own description, it operates in more than fifty countries." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "An agricultural-technology company that sells in-field sensors and agronomy support to help growers irrigate on live conditions instead of fixed schedules. Oracle's partner in the August 2026 Rio Grande–Bravo conservation program. By its own description it operates in more than fifty countries. Its role here is to produce the water savings Oracle is counting against Project Jupiter's own use.", "sources": [ { "label": "Oracle press release — Project Jupiter Launches Initiative to Save More Water Than It Uses in New Mexico (Aug 11 2026)", "url": "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/project-jupiter-launches-initiative-with-arable-2026-08-11/", "kind": "company" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE130", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle and Arable announce a watershed conservation program (Aug 11 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP169", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Jim Ethington", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/jim-ethington" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-11c" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO137", "type": "organization", "name": "Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/community-foundation-of-southern-new-mexico", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "nonprofit", "key_people": [ "PJP171" ], "stake": "The regional community foundation that administers the Oracle-funded scholarship program and co-launched a $1 million education fund for Gadsden schools.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Administers the Oracle-funded scholarship program, which made its first twenty-five awards in August 2026.", "src": [ 0, 1 ], "date": "2026-08-10" }, { "text": "The scholarships go to Doña Ana County students at New Mexico four-year and community colleges, with special consideration for Santa Teresa, Sunland Park and surrounding communities.", "src": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "text": "The awards cover housing, transportation, books and food." }, { "text": "With Oracle and the Gadsden Independent School District, launched a $1 million fund for the district's teachers and schools on September 21, 2026.", "date": "2026-09-21" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The regional community foundation administering the Oracle-funded scholarship program, which made its first twenty-five awards in August 2026. Doña Ana County students at four-year and community colleges in New Mexico, with special consideration for applicants from Santa Teresa, Sunland Park and the surrounding communities.", "sources": [ { "label": "Oracle press release — Oracle and Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico celebrate first scholarship awards (Aug 10 2026)", "url": "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-and-community-foundation-of-snm-celebrate-first-scholarship-awards-2026-08-10/", "kind": "company" }, { "label": "Organ Mountain News — Oracle scholarship fund awards 25 scholarships (Aug 10 2026)", "url": "https://www.organmountainnews.com/oracle-scholarship-fund-dona-ana-county-students-cfsnm-2026/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE134", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Oracle scholarship fund makes its first twenty-five awards (Aug 10 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP171", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Terra V. Winter", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/terra-v-winter" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE158", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Oracle launches a $1 million Gadsden ISD education fund (Sept 21 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-10b", "2026-09-21b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO138", "type": "organization", "name": "New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/new-mexico-interstate-stream-commission", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "government-agency", "key_people": [ "PJP180", "PJP181" ], "stake": "The state body responsible for New Mexico's interstate water compacts, whose chair and director were addressed in Rep. Stansbury's August 2026 letter asking for an accounting of the project's water.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Responsible for New Mexico's interstate water compacts, including the Rio Grande Compact and the obligations set by the 2026 consent decree." }, { "text": "Rep. Melanie Stansbury's August 24, 2026 letter to chair Mark Sanchez and director Hannah Riseley-White, among others, asked for a 'clear public accounting' of the project's water sources, rights and permits by August 28.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-24" }, { "text": "No response from the Commission has surfaced publicly." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The state body responsible for New Mexico's interstate water compacts, including the Rio Grande Compact and the obligations set by the 2026 consent decree. Chair Mark Sanchez and Director Hannah Riseley-White were both addressed in Rep. Stansbury's August 2026 letter; no response from the Commission has surfaced publicly.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rep. Melanie Stansbury — letter to five New Mexico officials (Aug 24 2026)", "url": "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-demands-answers-project-jupiters-water-use-new-mexico-supreme", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP180", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Hannah Riseley-White", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/hannah-riseley-white" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP181", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Mark Sanchez", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/mark-sanchez" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE139", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "A member of Congress asks the state to account for the water (Aug 24 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-08-24b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO139", "type": "organization", "name": "Houston Advanced Research Center", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/houston-advanced-research-center", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "nonprofit", "roles_in_project": [ "research" ], "key_people": [ "PJP179" ], "stake": "A Texas research nonprofit whose data-center water analysis was presented to New Mexico legislators in September 2026.", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Published 'Thirsty Data', projecting up to 161 billion gallons a year of data-center water use in Texas by 2030.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Its vice president told the interim Water and Natural Resources Committee that New Mexico's data centers draw just over 500 million gallons a year now, and that every planned facility running would mean 23.6 billion.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09-01" }, { "text": "Its New Mexico figures have not been published; they exist as testimony." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "A Texas research nonprofit whose data-center water work — published as \"Thirsty Data,\" projecting up to 161 billion gallons a year in Texas by 2030 — is among the few independent analyses of the question. Its vice president briefed New Mexico legislators in September 2026. Its New Mexico figures have not been published; they exist as testimony.", "sources": [ { "label": "Source New Mexico — data center water use could soar, researcher tells lawmakers (Sept 1 2026)", "url": "https://sourcenm.com/2026/09/01/new-mexico-data-center-water-use-could-soar-in-coming-years-researcher-tells-state-lawmakers/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP179", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Margaret Cook", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/margaret-cook" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO140", "type": "organization", "name": "NM Legislature — Water and Natural Resources Committee", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-legislature-water-and-natural-resources-committee", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "legislature", "roles_in_project": [ "oversight" ], "stake": "The interim legislative committee that has taken up Project Jupiter twice, in October 2025 and September 2026.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "On October 29, 2025 in Artesia, took up 'Data Centers: Water and Energy Use and Project Jupiter Update' as agenda item 5.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2025-10-29" }, { "text": "Presenters at that session included Deputy State Engineer Tanya Trujillo, who said a new data center should align with the state's 50-year water plan, and Daisy Maldonado of the Empowerment Congress.", "date": "2025-10-29" }, { "text": "On September 1, 2026, heard an analyst's projections of data-center water use and the State Engineer's general counsel say he has not 'been super thrilled' with Project Jupiter's shifting water needs.", "date": "2026-09-01" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The interim committee that has taken up Project Jupiter twice: on October 29, 2025 in Artesia, as agenda item 5, \"Data Centers: Water and Energy Use and Project Jupiter Update\"; and again on September 1, 2026 with an outside analyst's projections. The October 2025 session is the earlier fact worth knowing — the Legislature was briefed on this project ten months before the permit schedule became a due-process fight.", "sources": [ { "label": "New Mexico Legislature — Water and Natural Resources Committee 2025 final report", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Publications/Interim_Reports/WNR25.pdf", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE142", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The state's own numbers reach the Legislature (Sept 1 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE137", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The Legislature is briefed on Project Jupiter (Oct 29 2025)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-10-29", "2026-09-01b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO141", "type": "organization", "name": "Eastern Research Group, LLC (ERG)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/eastern-research-group-llc-erg", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "roles_in_project": [ "contractor" ], "key_people": [ "PJP184", "PJP185" ], "stake": "NMED's technical contractor, which since September 2025 has also supplied the department's hearing officers, including for the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Has worked for the New Mexico Environment Department since at least 2021; in 2022 it opened a Santa Fe office.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Its master contract, No. 25-667-4091-44019, authorizes up to $9,500,000, a contractual maximum rather than a statement of what NMED has spent.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The contract covers regulation development, technical analyses, expert testimony for regulatory hearings, permitting, and air-dispersion and emissions-inventory modeling.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "On September 12, 2025, NMED amended the agreement to add a hearing-officer category; Deputy Secretary John Rhoderick signed it on the line printed for the Cabinet Secretary.", "date": "2025-09-12" }, { "text": "In July 2026 the appointed hearing officer, Max Shepherd, wrote that he could not act until Susan Day at ERG completed his service contract.", "date": "2026-07-07" }, { "text": "The contract documents entered the air-permit hearing record in an August 21, 2026 filing by Nicholas Maxwell.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-21" } ], "aliases": [ "ERG" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "A professional-services firm that has worked for the New Mexico Environment Department since at least 2021, and that since September 2025 has also been the contractor supplying NMED's hearing officers. Its master contract, No. 25-667-4091-44019, authorizes up to $9,500,000 and covers legislation and regulation development, technical analyses, support for regulatory hearings through written and oral expert testimony and exhibits, air-quality and climate-program support, permitting, data analysis, and air-dispersion and emissions-inventory modeling. In 2022 ERG opened a Santa Fe office, describing it publicly as a way to build on several preceding years of NMED work. The $9.5 million is a contractual maximum, not a statement of what NMED has spent.", "sources": [ { "label": "Maxwell's Response in Substantial Support of Joint Emergency Motion for Disqualification and Stay, and Supplemental Motion for Expedited Disclosure Concerning the ERG Contractual Relationship — AQB 26-57(P), Aug 21 2026 (133 pp. with exhibits, PDF)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/08/2026-08-21-AQB-26-57-Resp-Mot-Disqualify-Supplemental-Mot-wExhibits.pdf", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "NMED Office of Public Facilitation — docket AQB 26-57(P)", "url": "https://www.env.nm.gov/opf/aqb-26-57p/", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "contractor-for", "raw": "contractor-for", "label": "Contractor or consultant for", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP184", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "Susan Day", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/susan-day" }, { "predicate": "officer-of", "raw": "executive-of", "label": "Has as officer", "direction": "in", "target": "PJP185", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "John Koupal", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/john-koupal" }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "governs", "label": "Regulated or reviewed by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJD73", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "NMED–ERG master contract No. 25-667-4091-44019, and the 2024 procurement behind it", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Involves", "direction": "in", "target": "PJE153", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED amends its technical contractor's agreement to supply hearing officers (Sept 12 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE9", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "NMED air permit — public hearing Sep 14 2026; decision due Nov 23", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "regulates", "raw": "governs", "label": "Regulated or reviewed by", "direction": "in", "target": "PJD74", "target_type": "document", "target_name": "Amendment No. 01 — NMED adds a hearing-officer category to its technical contractor's agreement (Sept 12 2025)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "concerns", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL195", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "The question has been put to a New Mexico court before, and it was never answered", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE154", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "The appointed hearing officer waits on a contract before he can act (July 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2025-09-12", "2026-07-07", "2026-07-29", "2026-08-21b" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO142", "type": "organization", "name": "Lea County Commission", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/lea-county-commission", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "county", "stake": "A southeastern New Mexico county commission weighing incentives for a Google hyperscale campus near Hobbs.", "jurisdiction": "county-other", "key_facts": [ { "text": "On September 24, 2026, agreed to consider more than $134 billion in industrial revenue bonds for the Google campus near Hobbs.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09-24" }, { "text": "Its data-center rules require any project seeking industrial revenue bonds or payments in lieu of taxes to structure payouts to benefit every school and hospital district in the county.", "src": [ 1 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The county commission in southeastern New Mexico weighing a Google hyperscale campus near Hobbs. Its data-center rules require any project seeking industrial revenue bonds or payments in lieu of taxes to structure payouts to benefit every school and hospital district in the county.", "sources": [ { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — One Southern New Mexico county eyes big incentives for data center as another mulls a block (Sept 25 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/one-southern-new-mexico-county-eyes-big-incentives-for-data-center-as-another-mulls-a-block/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Hobbs News-Sun — County sets regs for potential data centers", "url": "https://www.hobbsnews.com/county-sets-regs-for-potential-data-centers/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Concerns", "direction": "in", "target": "PJO143", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Google (Lea County campus proposal)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/google-lea-county-campus-proposal" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE159", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Two southern counties diverge on data centers (Sept 24 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-24c" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO143", "type": "organization", "name": "Google (Lea County campus proposal)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/google-lea-county-campus-proposal", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "Google's proposal, with Excelsior Energy Capital, for a hyperscale campus near Hobbs that Lea County is weighing.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Proposes a two-building hyperscale campus on 1,890 acres of county land near Hobbs.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The companies say they will cover all new generation costs, with Excelsior building a 2-gigawatt solar field about three miles away.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Plans a one-time 9.6-million-gallon fill of closed-loop cooling and about 42,000 gallons a day of municipal water once staffed, with treated effluent for construction.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Lea County agreed on September 24, 2026 to consider more than $134 billion in industrial revenue bonds for the campus.", "date": "2026-09-24" } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Proposing, with Excelsior Energy Capital, a two-building hyperscale campus on 1,890 acres of county land near Hobbs. Excelsior would build a 2-gigawatt solar field about three miles away; the companies say they will cover all new generation costs, fill the closed-loop cooling once with 9.6 million gallons, use about 42,000 gallons a day of municipal water once staffed, and buy treated effluent rather than city water for the roughly million gallons a day of construction.", "sources": [ { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — One Southern New Mexico county eyes big incentives for data center as another mulls a block (Sept 25 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/one-southern-new-mexico-county-eyes-big-incentives-for-data-center-as-another-mulls-a-block/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO144", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Excelsior Energy Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/excelsior-energy-capital" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO142", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Lea County Commission", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/lea-county-commission" }, { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE159", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Two southern counties diverge on data centers (Sept 24 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-24c" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO144", "type": "organization", "name": "Excelsior Energy Capital", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/excelsior-energy-capital", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "Google's partner on the Lea County proposal, responsible for the 2-gigawatt solar field meant to help power it.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Would build a 2-gigawatt solar field about three miles from the proposed Google campus.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Co-founder Anne Marie Denman told commissioners: 'we have no business doing anything here today for short-term gain that would mortgage the future.'", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "Google's partner on the Lea County proposal, responsible for the 2-gigawatt solar field meant to help power it. Co-founder Anne Marie Denman to commissioners: \"we have no business doing anything here today for short-term gain that would mortgage the future.\"", "sources": [ { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — One Southern New Mexico county eyes big incentives for data center as another mulls a block (Sept 25 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/one-southern-new-mexico-county-eyes-big-incentives-for-data-center-as-another-mulls-a-block/", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO143", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Google (Lea County campus proposal)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/google-lea-county-campus-proposal" } ], "timeline": [], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO145", "type": "organization", "name": "Grant County Commission", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/grant-county-commission", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "county", "stake": "A southwestern New Mexico county commission that moved toward a one-year data-center moratorium aimed at a gas-fired project near Hachita.", "jurisdiction": "county-other", "key_facts": [ { "text": "On September 24, 2026, approved notice of intent to consider a one-year moratorium on data centers, modeled on Socorro County's, to be voted on October 8.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09-24" }, { "text": "Commissioner Tom Shelley dissented on property-rights grounds.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The moratorium is aimed at a gas-fired data center proposed near Hachita whose developer has not engaged with the county." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The county commission in southwestern New Mexico that on September 24, 2026 approved notice of intent to consider a one-year moratorium on data centers, modeled on Socorro County's, to be voted on October 8. Commissioner Tom Shelley dissented on property-rights grounds.", "sources": [ { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — One Southern New Mexico county eyes big incentives for data center as another mulls a block (Sept 25 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/one-southern-new-mexico-county-eyes-big-incentives-for-data-center-as-another-mulls-a-block/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Las Cruces New Mexican — Grant County residents raise alarm over secretive proposed data center", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/las_cruces/grant-county-residents-raise-alarm-over-secretive-proposed-data-center/article_753c961a-f4fd-4950-86ca-88c3b082b770.html", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE159", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Two southern counties diverge on data centers (Sept 24 2026)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-24c" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO146", "type": "organization", "name": "Site Layer 1 LLC (Granite Renewables)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/site-layer-1-llc-granite-renewables", "verification": "confirmed", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "company", "stake": "The developer of a gas-fired data center proposed near Hachita and Playas in Grant County, whose air application NMED says it will not act on until the company engages the community.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Residents learned of the project from a legal notice in the Silver City Daily Press on August 27, 2026.", "src": [ 1 ], "date": "2026-08-27" }, { "text": "The notice said the facility could burn about 2.3 million cubic feet of natural gas an hour and that an air permit application would be filed with NMED by October 1.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Environment Secretary James Kenney wrote to the developers on September 18, 2026 expressing 'disappointment' at their lack of community engagement.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-09-18" }, { "text": "NMED's spokesperson said the department does not plan to act on the application until the company performs an acceptable level of community engagement.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "The company did not respond to reporters.", "src": [ 0 ] } ], "aliases": [ "Granite Renewables" ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "The developer of a gas-fired data center proposed for the rural south of Grant County near Hachita and Playas, which residents learned of from a legal notice in the Silver City Daily Press on August 27. The notice said the facility could burn about 2.3 million cubic feet of natural gas an hour and that an air permit application would be filed with NMED by October 1. Environment Secretary James Kenney wrote to the developers on September 18 expressing \"disappointment\" at their lack of community engagement; the department's spokesperson said NMED \"does not plan on acting on it until they perform an acceptable level of community engagement as outlined in the Secretary's letter.\" The company did not respond to reporters.", "sources": [ { "label": "Searchlight New Mexico — One Southern New Mexico county eyes big incentives for data center as another mulls a block (Sept 25 2026)", "url": "https://searchlightnm.org/one-southern-new-mexico-county-eyes-big-incentives-for-data-center-as-another-mulls-a-block/", "kind": "news" }, { "label": "Las Cruces New Mexican — Grant County residents raise alarm over secretive proposed data center", "url": "https://www.santafenewmexican.com/las_cruces/grant-county-residents-raise-alarm-over-secretive-proposed-data-center/article_753c961a-f4fd-4950-86ca-88c3b082b770.html", "kind": "news" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "involves", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJE159", "target_type": "event", "target_name": "Two southern counties diverge on data centers (Sept 24 2026)", "target_url": null }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP21", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "James Kenney", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/james-kenney" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJP21", "target_type": "person", "target_name": "James Kenney", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/who/james-kenney" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO10", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "NM Environment Department (NMED)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/nm-environment-department-nmed" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-24c" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO147", "type": "organization", "name": "Affordable NM (political committee)", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/affordable-nm-political-committee", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "pac-or-political-committee", "stake": "A New Mexico political committee registered for 2026 whose largest contribution came from Energy Transfer, the company behind the Green Chile lateral.", "jurisdiction": "state-nm", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Received $250,000 from Energy Transfer LP on August 6, 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-06" }, { "text": "Its other reported contributions are $25,000 from Presbyterian Insurance Company, $25,000 from In This Together PAC and $52 from the Democratic Governors Association.", "src": [ 0 ] }, { "text": "Its only reported spending is polling: $17,500 to Northside Research and $9,800 to Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, both on August 11, 2026.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "text": "The filings do not say what the committee is for, and the record does not guess." } ], "as_of": "2026-09-27" }, "summary": "A New Mexico political committee registered for 2026. Its filings with the Secretary of State show four contributions: $250,000 from Energy Transfer LP on August 6, 2026; $25,000 from Presbyterian Insurance Company; $25,000 from In This Together PAC; and $52 from the Democratic Governors Association. Its only reported spending is polling — $17,500 to Northside Research and $9,800 to Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, both August 11. Energy Transfer is the company behind the Green Chile lateral that would fuel Project Jupiter, and has large interests across the state's oil and gas economy; the filings do not say what the committee is for, and this record does not guess.", "sources": [ { "label": "NM Secretary of State — Campaign Finance Information System, contribution search (queried Sept 28 2026)", "url": "https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/registrant.html", "kind": "government" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "relates-to", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO8", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Energy Transfer (Transwestern)", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/energy-transfer-transwestern" }, { "predicate": "participant-in", "raw": "actor-in", "label": "Took part in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJCL203", "target_type": "claim", "target_name": "What the project's companies gave, in the state's own filings (2025–26)", "target_url": null } ], "timeline": [ "2026-09-14c" ], "updated": "2026-09-27" }, { "id": "PJO148", "type": "organization", "name": "Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust", "url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-real-estate-net-lease-trust", "verification": "primary-source", "role_line": null, "profile": { "org_kind": "financial", "parent": "PJO6", "roles_in_project": [ "investor" ], "stake": "A Blue Owl real estate trust whose SEC filing lists the Red Chiles companies — the Series 2025B data-center entities and the companies that bought their bonds — among its subsidiaries.", "jurisdiction": "private", "key_facts": [ { "text": "Describes itself as a non-listed, perpetual-life REIT that sells its shares monthly through a continuous private offering.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Its FY2025 Exhibit 21.1 lists Red Chiles Holdings A–D, Red Chiles A–D and Red Chiles Sub A–D among its subsidiaries; the filing does not state its ownership percentage.", "src": [ 0 ], "date": "2026-03" } ], "as_of": "2026-10-03" }, "summary": "A non-listed, perpetual-life real estate investment trust sponsored by Blue Owl that sells its shares monthly through a private offering. Its FY2025 annual report lists the Red Chiles companies among its subsidiaries.", "sources": [ { "label": "Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust — FY2025 Form 10-K, Exhibit 21.1, list of subsidiaries (filed Mar 2026)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944366/000194436626000020/exhibit211orent2025xlistof.htm", "kind": "filing" }, { "label": "Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust — FY2025 Form 10-K", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1944366/000194436626000020/osnl-20251231.htm", "kind": "filing" } ], "relations": [ { "predicate": "subject-of", "raw": "cites", "label": "Subject of", "direction": "out", "target": "PJN1", "target_type": "narrative", "target_name": "Who lent Project Jupiter $165 billion?", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/narratives/who-lent-project-jupiter-165-billion" }, { "predicate": "owns", "raw": "owns", "label": "Owns or holds a stake in", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO116", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Red Chiles A, B, C & D, LLC", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/red-chiles-a-b-c-d-llc" }, { "predicate": "related-to", "raw": "sponsors", "label": "Related to", "direction": "out", "target": "PJO6", "target_type": "organization", "target_name": "Blue Owl Capital", "target_url": "https://projectjupiter.watch/org/blue-owl-capital" } ], "timeline": [ "2026-03-13" ], "updated": "2026-10-03" } ] } }