The Cast

The cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department, the agency deciding Project Jupiter's air permit.

• ▸2026-07-01Concurred on July 1, 2026 with the Air Quality Bureau's recommendation for a public hearing, after about 6,700 public comments.
• ▸Per internal emails reported by The Candle, directed staff to add about $500,000 in Apaluma work to NMED's Speridian contract.

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.

• ▸New Mexico Economic Development Secretary from January 2019 to July 13, 2023.
• ▸Named on BorderPlex Digital Assets' leadership team alongside Lanham Napier and George P. Bush.

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.

• ▸2026-07-27In July 2026 asked the hearing officer to move the air-permit hearing five weeks earlier, arguing the project stood to lose $325…
• ▸2026-07-29The hearing officer denied the request in the room on July 27, 2026, then granted it in writing two days later.

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.

• ▸2025-01-20The Secretary of State's registry lists Alarid as BorderPlex Digital Assets' lobbyist from January 20, 2025, eight months before…
• ▸2026-01-01Yucca Growth Infrastructure's 2026 roster lists Alarid from January 1, 2026, one of five lobbyists on it and one of two marked…

The chairman of Orion Digital Infrastructure, the power and cooling partner for the campus, who was quoted in the governor's announcement.

• ▸Quoted as chairman of Orion Digital Infrastructure in the governor's BorderPlex Digital campus announcement.
• ▸Orion was founded by SCALE Infrastructure Partners and Stellar Energy.

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.

• ▸2026-09-17On September 17, 2026, said that if elected she would sign a first-day executive order pausing new large-scale data-center…
• ▸Her eight proposed guardrails include no non-disclosure agreements, developer-built renewable generation, closed-loop cooling…

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.

• ▸2026-06-02Won the June 2, 2026 Democratic primary for County Commission District 1 over Angela Rowe Garcia, 2,013 to 1,736, a 277-vote…
• ▸Launched the campaign over the commission's IRB vote.

The chairman and co-founder of BorderPlex Digital Assets, the Project Jupiter developer, who signed the February 2025 memorandum of understanding with the governor.

• ▸2025-02-25Signed the February 25, 2025 memorandum of understanding with Gov. Lujan Grisham.
• ▸Presented to Doña Ana County commissioners as BorderPlex chairman.

The Senate Majority Whip who sponsored the HB 93 floor amendment adding Section 6, the self-sourced power exemption the project runs on.

• ▸2025-02-17Introduced SB 418, a standalone Qualified Microgrid bill, as sole sponsor on February 17, 2025; it died on February 22 after being…
• ▸2025-03-20Sponsored Senate Floor Amendment 1 to HB 93 on March 20, 2025, adding Section 6, the self-sourced power generation exemption.

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.

• ▸Voted yes on the Project Jupiter industrial revenue bonds.
• ▸2025-09-05On September 5, 2025, posted personal information of commenters who opposed Project Jupiter on Facebook.

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.

• ▸2026Sponsored SB 235 (2026), the Microgrid Oversight Act, an attempt to close the HB 93 loophole aimed at Project Jupiter's on-site…
• ▸2026SB 235 passed the Senate 22–20 and died in House Judiciary.

Doña Ana County District 5 commissioner, elected commission chair in January 2026, who voted yes on the Project Jupiter industrial revenue bonds.

• ▸2025-09-19Voted yes on the industrial revenue bonds on September 19, 2025.
• ▸2026-01-13Elected commission chair unanimously on January 13, 2026.

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.

• ▸Listed as Global Head of Development on Orion Digital Infrastructure's About page.
• ▸Also CEO of Nebula Energy.

Las Cruces independent journalist whose reporting on the project's agreements and water use leads local coverage of Project Jupiter.

• ▸Reported that the final Project Jupiter agreements grew from 359 to 1,583 pages.
• ▸Reported that Project Jupiter would use more water than previously disclosed, the "potable" water story.

The president and CEO of El Paso Electric, the grid-interconnection utility, who is also vice chair of the Borderplex Alliance.

• ▸El Paso Electric is the regional utility for West Texas and southern New Mexico, including Santa Teresa.
• ▸Vice chair and board co-chair of the Borderplex Alliance, the naming link with BorderPlex Digital Assets.

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.

• ▸2025-02-25Was Secretary-Designate of the Economic Development Department when the MOU was signed on February 25, 2025; the department is the…
• ▸2025-02-25Named in the Governor's February 25, 2025 BorderPlex press release.

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.

• ▸2026-09Opposes a statewide moratorium: “If you do a statewide moratorium then that sends the message that we're not even open for…
• ▸Would evaluate projects one at a time, with guardrails and clawbacks written into state incentive deals.

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.

• ▸Said she and colleagues felt "misled" on HB 93, as reported by a single outlet.
• ▸2026-08-11With Reps. Chávez and Rubio, presented a data-center moratorium framework for 2027 to the interim committee at NM Tech in Socorro…

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.

• ▸2025-09-12Signed Amendment No. 01 to NMED's contract with Eastern Research Group on September 12, 2025, adding the hearing-officer function…
• ▸2026-07-02Delegated final decision authority over the Project Jupiter air permit on July 2, 2026.

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.

• ▸2025Co-sponsored HB 93 (2025), which carried the last-minute microgrid amendment reported as benefiting the BorderPlex data center.
• ▸2026-01-27Primary sponsor of HM 6 (2026), a study of private-equity ownership of infrastructure, postponed indefinitely on January 27, 2026.

Co-owner of Bradfute Sayer Consulting & Legal Services and a registered lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets, the project's developer, and for Apaluma.

• ▸The "Sayer" in Bradfute Sayer Consulting & Legal Services, co-owned with Jennifer Bradfute.
• ▸Practices in energy, water and public lands.

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.

• ▸Negotiated the $50 million water and wastewater commitment for the Sunland Park area, including a $10 million metrics-driven…
• ▸Co-authored an op-ed with Reps. Small and Ferrary supporting Project Jupiter with water protections and oversight.

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.

• ▸2025-09Co-authored a September 2025 op-ed supporting Project Jupiter.
• ▸An Elevate Doña Ana ad campaign ran Small's endorsement of Project Jupiter before the $165 billion bond vote.

The founder, chairman and CEO of SoftBank, who co-announced the $500 billion Stargate initiative.

• ▸2025-01-21Co-announced the $500 billion Stargate initiative with Trump, Altman and Ellison on January 21, 2025.
• ▸Raised SoftBank's commitment from $100 billion to $200 billion at Trump's urging.

The Texas governor who championed Stargate's Abilene campus and later moved to curb data-center tax exemptions and grid connections in Texas.

• ▸Championed the Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas.
• ▸2026-06Recommended repealing data-center tax exemptions in June 2026.

Deputy director of the New Mexico State Ethics Commission and the agency's representative in its suit against Elevate New Mexico.

• ▸2026-04-17Represented the Ethics Commission in its April 17, 2026 suit against Elevate New Mexico.
• ▸2026-09-16Authored the Ethics Commission's September 16, 2026 press release on Oracle's disclosure.

Bloom Energy's vice president of environmental and regulatory law, named as the Responsible Official on Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air-permit application.

• ▸Named as the Responsible Official on the YGI air-permit application, listed with a Bloom Energy email address.
• ▸Signed the Section 22 certification at page 648 of the 648-page application.

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.

• ▸2026-07-03Attended the July 3, 2026 Las Cruces community meeting on Project Jupiter held by state senators.
• ▸2026-08-11Convened a formal Senate listening session on Project Jupiter on August 11, 2026, at NMSU's Corbett Center Ballroom.

The county commissioner who cast the sole vote against the $165 billion IRB approval.

• ▸2025-09-19Cast 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…
• ▸2025-08-26Listed as a commissioner in the August 26, 2025 IRB inducement resolution.

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.

• ▸2025-01-21Co-announced the Stargate venture behind Project Jupiter at the White House on January 21, 2025.
• ▸1977Co-founded Oracle in 1977.

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.

• ▸2026-09-24On September 24, 2026, called for a moratorium on new data-center development in New Mexico until companies meet six “No Blank…
• ▸The principles: data centers pay for their own power and infrastructure, don't harm local water, meet the state's renewable and…

Doña Ana County Commissioner for District 2 and one of the four commissioners who voted yes on the Project Jupiter industrial revenue bonds.

• ▸2024-11Elected to the county commission in November 2024.
• ▸2025-09-19One of the four yes votes on the industrial revenue bond approval of September 19, 2025.

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.

• ▸2026-07-03Attended the July 3, 2026 Las Cruces community meeting on Project Jupiter held by state senators.
• ▸2026-08-11Convened a formal Senate listening session on Project Jupiter on August 11, 2026, at NMSU's Corbett Center Ballroom.

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.

• ▸Coined the name "Project Velocity" in internal emails.
• ▸Specified in those emails how the agency's records would be handed off into Apaluma's AI system.

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.

• ▸2026-02-06Signed the Open Meetings Act complaint the Environmental Law Center filed on February 6, 2026, the second OMA suit.
• ▸Lead counsel on the IRB/LEDA case before Judge DeLaney.

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.

• ▸Spoke at the IRB public input as a "Sunland Park resident" without disclosing the BorderPlex Digital role, then joined chairman…
• ▸Promised twice-weekly Sunland Park meetings ahead of the September 19, 2025 IRB hearing.

Appointed to the Doña Ana County Commission's District 3 seat in February 2026, after Shannon Reynolds resigned.

• ▸2026-02Appointed in February 2026 to the District 3 seat left open by Shannon Reynolds's resignation.

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.

• ▸Co-counsel with Kacey J. Hovden on both of the Environmental Law Center's suits.
• ▸Counsel for residents who are parties to the air-permit hearing.

Chief of staff at Orion Digital Infrastructure and a founding member of Nebula Energy.

• ▸Chief of staff at Orion Digital Infrastructure.
• ▸A founding member of Nebula Energy.

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.

• ▸2025-11Appeared in Apaluma's promotional video endorsing the agency contractor's product, around November 2025.
• ▸2026-05-31The video was taken down by May 31, 2026.

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.

• ▸2026-01-01One of five lobbyists on Yucca Growth Infrastructure's 2026 roster with the Secretary of State, and one of two marked “Authorized…
• ▸2025-02-01A registered lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets since February 1, 2025.

A water and natural-resources attorney and the Republican nominee for the open Doña Ana County Commission District 1 seat.

• ▸2026-06Unopposed in the June 2026 Republican primary for the open District 1 commission seat.
• ▸2026-11-03Faces Daisy Maldonado in the November 3, 2026 general election.

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.

• ▸2026-07-03Attended the July 3, 2026 Las Cruces community meeting on Project Jupiter held by state senators.
• ▸2026-08-11Convened a formal Senate listening session on Project Jupiter on August 11, 2026, at NMSU's Corbett Center Ballroom.

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.

• ▸2026-08-24On August 24, 2026, wrote to the Attorney General, the State Engineer, the Environment Secretary and the chair and director of the…
• ▸Stansbury's framing: “Every new major water use deserves a transparent accounting of where its water is coming from and how that…

An NMSU civil-engineering professor and desalination expert named as an advisor in the NMSU–BorderPlex desalination agreement.

• ▸An expert in desalination, brackish water and potable reuse, the project's water need.
• ▸2025-02-25Named as an advisor in the NMSU–BorderPlex desalination advisory agreement of February 25, 2025.

Head of Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, who oversees the STACK platform for Blue Owl Capital.

• ▸Oversees the STACK Infrastructure platform.
• ▸2016Co-founded IPI Partners in 2016.

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.

• ▸2026-09Named on the Attorney General's response in the air case, S-1-SC-41579.
• ▸2026-09-02Named on the Attorney General's September 2, 2026 response in the water case, S-1-SC-41580.

NMED's Water Protection Division director, whose bureaus' records feed Apaluma's "Project Velocity" and who appeared in Apaluma's promotional video.

• ▸Records of the division's bureaus feed Apaluma's "Project Velocity."
• ▸Appeared in Apaluma's promotional video.

EPCOR Water's vice president of business development, named in the Governor's February 25, 2025 release as the desalination-feasibility partner.

• ▸2025-02-25Named in the Governor's February 25, 2025 BorderPlex release as the desalination-feasibility partner.

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.

• ▸Signed the Speridian Technologies contracts that preceded Apaluma's, part of the Project Velocity thread.

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.

• ▸2026-10-02Appointed substitute hearing officer in AQB 26-57(P) by Cabinet Secretary James Kenney on October 2, 2026; the notice keeps all…
• ▸2026-08-28United States District Judge for the District of New Mexico from 2003; took senior status February 1, 2026 and retired August 28…

Doña Ana County's economic development director, who declared Project Jupiter out of compliance on June 24, 2026.

• ▸2025-10Appointed county economic development director in October 2025.
• ▸2026-06-24Declared Project Jupiter "out of compliance" on June 24, 2026, after missed job-report deadlines.

Oracle's Executive Vice Chair and former CEO, named as a defendant in the bondholder suit over Oracle's AI-buildout debt.

• ▸2025-09Moved from CEO to Executive Vice Chair in September 2025, 13 days before the $18B bond close.
• ▸Named among the defendants in the bondholder suit over Oracle's AI-buildout debt.

Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, where the Microgrid Oversight Act (SB 235) died in February 2026 after passing the Senate 22–20.

• ▸Chairs the House Judiciary Committee.
• ▸SB 235 passed the Senate 22–20 on February 14, 2026, was sent to House Judiciary on February 15, and was postponed indefinitely…

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.

• ▸First elected in 2024; the first term began in January 2025.
• ▸Holds the only Republican-held House seat inside Albuquerque.

An Albuquerque state representative and co-presenter of the data-center moratorium framework to an interim legislative committee in August 2026.

• ▸2026-08-11Co-presented the data-center moratorium framework to the interim Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee on August 11…
• ▸Carries the Albuquerque end of the coalition behind the framework.

Executive director of the New Mexico Building & Construction Trades Council, who endorsed the project's jobs.

• ▸Endorsed the jobs the project would bring.

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.

• ▸2026-09-01Told the interim Water and Natural Resources Committee that data centers in New Mexico currently use just over 500 million gallons…
• ▸Testified that every facility now planned would take that to 23.6 billion gallons a year, most of it indirect, for cooling the…

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.

• ▸2026-07-07On July 7, 2026, Max Shepherd wrote that he was “waiting for Susan Day at ERG to complete my new service contract” before he could…
• ▸2021In 2021, NMED offered Day as a technical witness in EIB 21-27(R), its oil-and-gas ozone-precursor rulemaking, where she testified…

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.

• ▸2026-03-20Denied the county's motion to dismiss the Open Meetings Act challenge on March 20, 2026, issuing a writ of certiorari for review…
• ▸2026-03-20Declined the same day to pause the ordinances.

Economist cited in the record for saying in December 2025 that Oracle's investment-grade notes were trading more like junk bonds.

• ▸2025-12Said in December 2025 that Oracle's investment-grade notes were "now trading more like junk bonds," a signal about the repricing…
• ▸2026-02Commented on Blue Owl's February 2026 halt of redemptions and $1.4 billion loan sale.

Chief executive of Arable, the agricultural-technology company in Oracle's August 2026 watershed conservation program for Project Jupiter.

• ▸2026-08-11Quoted in Oracle's August 11, 2026 announcement of the conservation program with Arable.
• ▸Ethington's statement: “Growers know their land and crops better than anyone, and our role is to give them trusted, timely…

The president of New Mexico State University, which signed a desalination advisory agreement with BorderPlex the same day as the state memorandum of understanding.

• ▸2025-01-01The 32nd NMSU president, since January 1, 2025.
• ▸2025-02-25Named in the governor's February 25, 2025 BorderPlex press release.

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.

• ▸Co-sponsored SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act.
• ▸Co-authored an op-ed in El Paso Matters on Project Jupiter's jobs, water and oversight.

New Mexico Border Authority official who, per a single outlet, hosted the BorderPlex team in March 2025.

• ▸2025-03Hosted the BorderPlex Digital Assets team in March 2025, as reported by a single outlet.

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.

• ▸2026-09-21Named with Brent Moore as a lobbyist for Bloom Energy in the September 21, 2026 email to the Legislative Finance Committee, as…
• ▸2026-07-01Registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's lobbyist system; Forrester's own registration lists Bloom Energy as a…

The registered lobbyist for STACK Infrastructure who on September 21, 2026 emailed the Legislative Finance Committee the list of Project Jupiter's lobbyists.

• ▸2026-09-21On September 21, 2026, emailed members of the Legislative Finance Committee a list of the lobbyists working for Project Jupiter's…
• ▸2025-08-28STACK Infrastructure's lobbyist roster lists Gonzales from August 28, 2025.

SoftBank's chief financial officer and the primary financial architect of its Stargate commitment.

• ▸2018SoftBank CFO and CISO since 2018.
• ▸Primary financial architect of the Stargate commitment.

The registered lobbyist for Oracle, the campus's anchor tenant, named in the September 2026 lobbyist list and in Oracle America's registry filing.

• ▸2026-09-21Reported by The New Mexican as Oracle's lobbyist in the September 21, 2026 email to the Legislative Finance Committee.
• ▸Oracle America, Inc. is registered as a 2026 lobbyist employer, and Richard Guay is registered and active for 2026.

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.

• ▸2026-07-23Listed in Oracle America's 2026 lobbyist-employer filing with the Secretary of State from July 23, 2026, alongside Rich Guay.
• ▸2026-09-21Not on the list of the project's lobbyists emailed to the Legislative Finance Committee in September 2026.

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.

• ▸2026-06-22In a June 22, 2026 interview, faulted AI data-center developers for “a healthy dose of arrogance” and late, thin community…
• ▸In the same interview, named emissions, water use and rising electricity prices as legitimate concerns, without naming Project…

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.

• ▸2026-04-27The bureau received the YGI Microgrid application on April 27, 2026 and ruled it complete on May 27.
• ▸2026-07-01On July 1, 2026, wrote to Cabinet Secretary James Kenney, through Division Director Michelle Miano, recommending a public hearing.

STACK Infrastructure's chief development officer, who presented Project Jupiter's job figures to the Doña Ana County commission in late July 2026.

• ▸2026-07Presented to county commissioners with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure EVP Mahesh Thiagarajan in late July 2026.
• ▸The presentation cited nearly 700 New Mexicans in ongoing construction, nearly 2,800 construction workers to date and $734 million…

The NMED Air Quality Bureau modeler who wrote the June 16, 2026 modeling review of the YGI Microgrid application.

• ▸2026-06-16Authored NMED's modeling review of the YGI Microgrid application, dated June 16, 2026.
• ▸The review carries the permit's figure of 37.2 tons of NOx a year, minor for PSD and major for Title V.

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.

• ▸2026-07-23Listed in Oracle America's 2026 lobbyist-employer filing with the Secretary of State from July 23, 2026, alongside Rich Guay.
• ▸2026-09-21Not on the list of the project's lobbyists emailed to the Legislative Finance Committee in September 2026.

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.

• ▸Permit writer of record for the YGI Microgrid application, NSR 10883.
• ▸2026-07-17Named on NMED's comment portal as the contact for the air-permit notice during the July 17 – August 17, 2026 comment window.

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.

• ▸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…
• ▸Co-sponsored HB 137, the Strategic Water Supply Act, a $75 million state desalination fund.

Legal director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, who filed its public-records lawsuit against the county over withheld Project Jupiter emails.

• ▸2026-06-22Filed the Foundation's public-records lawsuit against the county on June 22, 2026.
• ▸The suit challenges the county's use of a "terrorist tactical response plan" exemption to withhold Project Jupiter emails.

The president and CEO of the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Association.

• ▸Leads the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Association.
• ▸2025-02-25Named in the governor's February 25, 2025 BorderPlex press release.

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.

• ▸As chairman of the Public Regulation Commission, built New Mexico's renewable portfolio standard.
• ▸The record describes the HB 93 microgrid exemption as undercutting that renewable portfolio standard.

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.

• ▸2013-12-23On December 23, 2013, Instrument #1330941 records Paseo Del Norte and Santa Teresa Land acquiring the land while the Verde…
• ▸Signs for both landholding companies.

An Albuquerque state senator, appointed in January 2023, who is married to Vanessa Alarid, a registered lobbyist for BorderPlex Digital Assets.

• ▸2023-01Appointed to the state Senate in January 2023.
• ▸The appointment drew scrutiny in a Bernalillo County ethics board matter over Alarid's $5,000 in-kind contribution to Commissioner…

Albuquerque Business First reporter who wrote the original story on the project's $5 billion announcement.

• ▸2025-03-20Wrote Albuquerque Business First's March 20, 2025 story on the original $5 billion announcement.
• ▸Reported on Project Jupiter for Albuquerque Business First.

A longtime Santa Fe lobbyist and attorney registered for Bloom Energy, the fuel-cell supplier whose installation is the subject of the air permit.

• ▸2026-09-21Named with Scott Forrester as a lobbyist for Bloom Energy in the September 21, 2026 email to the Legislative Finance Committee, as…
• ▸J. Brent Moore is registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's lobbyist system.

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.

• ▸2026Broke a 20–20 tie on the Muñoz amendment during the 2026 SB 235 debate, as reported by a single outlet.
• ▸2026SB 235 passed the Senate and died in the House.

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.

• ▸Listed on the air-permit hearing's party list as New Energy Economy's representative.
• ▸2026-08-12On August 12, 2026, the hearing officer denied discovery and, the same day, denied New Energy Economy's motion for…

Doña Ana County's interim county attorney, who guided the county's October 14, 2025 Open Meetings Act corrective action.

• ▸2025-10-14Led the county's Open Meetings Act corrective action on October 14, 2025.
• ▸Framed the closed session as protected by attorney-client privilege.

State representative and prime sponsor of HB 93 (2025), the bill the record ties to the "self-sourced microgrid" carve-out.

• ▸2025Prime sponsor of HB 93 (2025), the Advanced Grid Technology bill.
• ▸The record ties HB 93 to the ETA "self-sourced microgrid" carve-out.

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.

• ▸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…
• ▸Former President of Spear Street Capital, which the record lists as a firm Patel co-founded.

Albuquerque state senator who supported SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act, saying "not all money is good money."

• ▸Supported SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act.
• ▸Said "not all money is good money," as reported by a single outlet.

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.

• ▸2026-01-13Incorporated Elevate New Mexico as a Virginia nonstock corporation on January 13, 2026.
• ▸2026-04-17A New Mexico State Ethics Commission complaint dated April 17, 2026 documents Roberts as the incorporator.

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.

• ▸2026-08-11Co-presented the “Conceptual Framework for a Data Center Moratorium” to the interim Science, Technology & Telecommunications…
• ▸The committee heard the moratorium framework at its August 10–11, 2026 meeting in Socorro.

State senator who co-sponsored SB 235, the 2026 Microgrid Oversight Act.

• ▸Co-sponsored SB 235, the Microgrid Oversight Act, which the record describes as the corrective bill to HB 93.

A Yale antitrust scholar whose paper argues the Stargate joint venture may violate the Sherman Act.

• ▸Authored a Stargate antitrust analysis under the Clayton and Sherman Acts for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, volume 41.
• ▸The paper was supervised by Fiona Scott Morton.

Oracle's Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, named as a defendant in the Oracle bondholder suit.

• ▸Named a defendant in the Oracle bondholder securities-fraud class action.
• ▸Serves as Oracle's Chief Accounting Officer.

The founder, chairman and CEO of Bloom Energy.

• ▸2001Founder, chairman and CEO of Bloom Energy since 2001.
• ▸Previously worked on NASA Mars-oxygen systems and was a University of Arizona professor.

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.

• ▸2026-06Fronted Oracle's June 2026 messaging on an "updated power plan" and no use of public drinking water.
• ▸2026-07-28On July 28, 2026, told commissioners the project employed nearly 700 New Mexicans in ongoing construction, nearly 2,800…

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.

• ▸2026-07In July 2026 the Attorney General's office opened an investigation into alleged fraudulent public comments on the Project Jupiter…
• ▸Torrez: “If individuals or organizations attempted to manipulate the public comment process through fraudulent submissions, we…

A senior vice president at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle's named voice on the Arable water-conservation program announced in August 2026.

• ▸2026-08-11Quoted in Oracle's August 11, 2026 announcement of a watershed conservation program with Arable.
• ▸Twaddle's statement: “use water as efficiently as possible in our operations, then invest in practical, local projects that…

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.

• ▸2026-09Signatory on the Attorney General's response in the air case, S-1-SC-41579.
• ▸2026-09-02Signatory on the Attorney General's September 2, 2026 response in the water case, S-1-SC-41580.

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.

• ▸Counsel of record in AQB 26-57 and co-author of the Department's July 2026 Position Statement.
• ▸2026-07-02On July 2, 2026, circulated the signed Notice of Docketing, explaining it served “to appoint the hearing officer and delegate…

Doña Ana County's Community Development director, the custodian of the county's planning and zoning process.

Group chief operating officer of Stellar Energy.

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.

• ▸2025-03-10Confirmed by the New Mexico Senate as State Engineer on March 10, 2025, the first woman in the post.
• ▸The Office of the State Engineer governs the MOU's brackish-groundwater commitment; the record has not found a personal role for…

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.

• ▸2026-08-24Entered an appearance on August 24, 2026, the day after the Supreme Court stayed the proceeding and two days after the hearing…
• ▸The appearance is the last filing in the docket.

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.

• ▸2013-12-23Signed the 2013 easement agreement, Instrument #1330941, for all three Verde entities.

Source NM senior reporter covering the project's water, permits and influencer recruitment.

• ▸Covers the project's water, permits and influencer recruitment.
• ▸Previously an investigative reporter at Searchlight New Mexico.

Chief technology officer of Stellar Energy, per a single outlet.

• ▸Identified as Stellar Energy's CTO by a single outlet.

Oracle's global head of social impact and the company's named voice on the Doña Ana County scholarship fund.

• ▸2026-08Oracle's named voice when its Doña Ana County scholarship fund awarded 25 scholarships in August 2026.

A New Mexico Economic Development Department spokesperson who commented on the state's $3.06M job-training award to STACK Infrastructure.

• ▸The state awarded STACK Infrastructure $3.06M in job-training (JTIP) funds for Project Jupiter hires.
• ▸Chaffin called it “one of the largest single JTIP awards we've announced, reflecting both the scale of the project and the…

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.

• ▸2025-09-01Retired as NMSU's Vice President for Research on September 1, 2025.
• ▸The office routes sponsored-research and public-records (IPRA) records, which makes it relevant to the NDA.

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.

• ▸Crosslink Capital led Apaluma's $5.55M seed round.
• ▸Contro's statement in the funding release: “We invest in founders who understand a problem from the inside. Alicia ran economic…

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.

• ▸2025-08An August 2025 STACK press release lists Cox as CEO of STACK Americas and EMEA.
• ▸December 2025 reporting names Matt VanderZanden as CEO of STACK Americas; the record treats Cox as a possible predecessor or…

NMED Assistant General Counsel and the point of contact on the completeness of the Acoma air-permit application.

• ▸Served as NMED's point of contact on the completeness of the Acoma permit application.

Director of the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter and part of the coalition protesting the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.

• ▸Part of the coalition protesting the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.
• ▸A longstanding public critic of the buildout.

Vice president at Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, part of Blue Owl Capital.

The district judge in Silver City who twice dismissed a litigant's suit over Project Jupiter, the second time on June 23, 2026.

• ▸2026-06-23Dismissed the litigant's second amended complaint on June 23, 2026, the second dismissal of the suit.
• ▸2026-06-23Allowed a chance to refile, citing "three strikes and you're out."

Registered Santa Teresa Capital, LLC, the entity whose water rights the campus buys, and is identified in the record as its managing partner.

• ▸2017Registered Santa Teresa Capital, LLC in 2017, per the Santa Fe New Mexican; the registration appears in public OSE filings.
• ▸Secretary of State records list Gaddy as sole member and manager of Santa Teresa Capital.

Managing director at Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, part of Blue Owl Capital.

• ▸Previously at IPI Partners.

Listed as Doña Ana County Attorney in an earlier county staff directory; the county's Legal/Risk page now shows that post as vacant.

• ▸The county's Legal/Risk Department page lists the County Attorney post as vacant.

CEO of Scale Microgrids, the EQT-owned company the record lists as a co-founder entity of Orion Digital Infrastructure.

• ▸Scale Microgrids is owned by EQT.
• ▸The record lists Scale Microgrids as a co-founder entity of Orion Digital Infrastructure.

NMED's Director of Communications, who confirmed the air-permit hearing schedule and hearing officer to Source NM.

• ▸Confirmed the air-permit hearing schedule and the hearing officer to Source NM.

Vice President of Corporate Communications at Energy Transfer and the company's on-record voice on the Green Chile pipeline routing.

• ▸Gave Energy Transfer's public answer to the state's refusals of the pipeline's state-land crossings.

The chief operating officer of BorderPlex Digital Assets, with a prior tie to Lanham Napier through Rackspace.

• ▸2025-01Chief operating officer of BorderPlex Digital Assets since January 2025.
• ▸Formerly Rackspace's SVP of Global Infrastructure, a direct tie to Napier.

Chief compliance officer of the Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust, as named in its SEC Form 10.

• ▸Named as chief compliance officer in the Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust's SEC Form 10.

Global head of finance at Orion Digital Infrastructure.

• ▸A "Richard Hormann" also appears at Stellar Energy; the record has not confirmed they are the same person.

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.

• ▸2026-09-21The September 21, 2026 email to the Legislative Finance Committee, as reported by The New Mexican, lists Hunt as lobbying for…
• ▸Registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's lobbyist system.

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.

• ▸2026-07-09Signed the Department of Justice's July 9, 2026 letter to NMED Secretary Kenney on the air-permit comments.
• ▸The letter states: “We have reason to believe that an unknown, but potentially substantial number of the comments were…

A Trinity Consultants consultant and one of the two preparers of the project's air-permit applications.

• ▸Prepared the East and West gas-turbine air-permit filings and the 648-page YGI Microgrid application with a Trinity Consultants…

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.

• ▸Spoke for the State Land Office through both of its denials of Energy Transfer's Green Chile crossings.

Principal at Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, part of Blue Owl Capital.

• ▸Previously at IPI Partners.

Doña Ana County Deputy County Attorney, as listed in the county staff directory.

A UTEP engineering expert who testified that the region's grid 'was not prepared for these multiple data centers.'

• ▸Testified that the region's grid 'was not prepared for these multiple data centers.'
• ▸Warned about El Paso Electric's capacity and the grid draw of the Fort Bliss data-center cluster.

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.

• ▸2023In the 2023 Advanced Clean Cars II rulemaking, EIB 23-56(R), NMED's Notice of Intent identified Koupal as an ERG senior scientist…
• ▸NMED entered Koupal's direct testimony as NMED Exhibit 45, alongside supporting material its exhibit list called the “ERG Report.”

Communications director of the New Mexico Economic Development Department, the MOU's signatory agency.

The NMED hearing clerk who files and serves every order in the air-permit docket.

• ▸The clerk of record whose signature carries each order in the air-permit docket to the parties.

Doña Ana County's Assistant County Manager and operational spokesperson on the project, named one of three joint acting county managers in July 2026.

• ▸Speaks for the county on the project's grading permits, site work and desalination.
• ▸2026-07-28Appointed a joint acting county manager with Deb Weir and Lucio Luttrell on July 28, 2026, after the county manager's contract was…

A Trinity Consultants consultant and one of the two preparers of the project's air-permit applications.

• ▸Prepared the East and West gas-turbine air-permit filings and the 648-page YGI Microgrid application with a Trinity Consultants…

An Assistant Solicitor General at the New Mexico Department of Justice and lead signatory on the Attorney General's response in the water case.

• ▸2026-09-02Lead signatory on the Attorney General's September 2, 2026 response in S-1-SC-41580, the water case.
• ▸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…

Operations manager for Acoma, LLC and the operations contact listed on the project's air-permit applications.

• ▸Listed as the operations contact on the New Source Review air-permit applications.
• ▸Declined to comment on the permit delay.

El Paso Matters environment and energy reporter and the outlet's lead reporter on Project Jupiter.

• ▸Leads El Paso Matters' coverage of Project Jupiter.

The agent for Santa Teresa Capital, LLC who signed its October 21, 2025 emergency well letter to the State Engineer's office.

• ▸2025-10-21Signed Santa Teresa Capital's October 21, 2025 request for emergency authorization under § 72-12-22, copied to managing partner…
• ▸The letter states three wells had failed and lists the industrial project's construction schedule among its nine reasons.

NMED's General Counsel, per a July 2026 letter from the New Mexico Department of Justice.

• ▸2026-07Copied as NMED's General Counsel on a July 2026 New Mexico Department of Justice letter.
• ▸Earlier appeared in the record through NMED's Water Protection Division.

Staff attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center who filed the environmental coalition's FERC protest against the Green Chile pipeline.

• ▸Counsel for the coalition whose FERC protest argues the pipeline should not proceed on a blanket certificate.

MVEDA's marketing director and the author of the pro-Project Jupiter articles on the NM Borderplex site.

• ▸Wrote pro-Project Jupiter articles on the NM Borderplex site through April 2026.
• ▸MVEDA, the quasi-public economic-development alliance, provided site-selection and market analysis to land the project in Santa…

Source NM environment and local-government reporter covering the project's air permits.

• ▸Covers air permits and a pipeline denial.

Chief legal officer of the Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust, as named in its SEC Form 10.

• ▸Named as chief legal officer in the Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Trust's SEC Form 10.

Rural Organizing Manager at Food & Water Watch and part of the coalition protesting the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.

• ▸One of the organizers behind the coalition's federal challenge to the pipeline.

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.

• ▸2026-08-24An addressee of Rep. Stansbury's August 24, 2026 letter asking for a public accounting of the project's water.
• ▸The Commission manages New Mexico's obligations under the Rio Grande Compact.

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.

• ▸2026-08-24An addressee of Rep. Stansbury's August 24, 2026 letter asking for a public accounting of the project's water.
• ▸Not the same person as Doña Ana County Commission Chair Manuel A. Sanchez, who holds a different office.

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.

• ▸2025-12Tracked the widening of Oracle's credit-default swaps in December 2025 as a signal of AI-capex risk.
• ▸The record ties the signal to Oracle's debt load, which it puts at roughly $108–150 billion.

Energy Program Director at Public Citizen, who filed the organization's FERC protest against the Green Chile pipeline.

• ▸Filed Public Citizen's protest in FERC docket CP26-80.
• ▸The protest states: “The Commission must reject the application as incomplete.”

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.

• ▸2025-09-01Became NMSU's interim Vice President for Research on September 1, 2025.
• ▸2025-09-14Was in the role when the NDA records were released on September 14, 2025.

Former U.S. representative and USDA Deputy Secretary who appears in the record as the spouse of state Rep. Nathan Small.

• ▸Former U.S. representative for New Mexico's 2nd congressional district.
• ▸Served as USDA Deputy Secretary.

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.

• ▸2025-10-29Briefed the interim Water and Natural Resources Committee in Artesia on October 29, 2025, six days after the emergency well was…
• ▸Told members that the development of a new data center “should align with the objectives outlined in the state's 50-year strategic…

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.

• ▸Named in an NMED email as the person to make the handoff of state records into Apaluma's RAG system “seamless.”

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.

• ▸2025-12December 2025 reporting identifies VanderZanden as CEO of STACK Americas.
• ▸2025-08An August 2025 STACK press release lists Brian Cox as CEO of STACK Americas and EMEA, a possible succession.

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.

• ▸2026-08-25On August 25, 2026, cosponsored H.R. 9655, which would stop utilities recovering large data centers' grid costs from ordinary…
• ▸Vasquez's statement: “New Mexico's water, air and resources belong to us, not to billionaires from coastal states who see an…

Managing director at Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, part of Blue Owl Capital, promoted in January 2026.

• ▸2026-01Promoted to managing director in January 2026.
• ▸Previously at IPI Partners.

An Assistant Solicitor General at the New Mexico Department of Justice and lead signatory on the Attorney General's response in the air case.

• ▸2026-09Lead signatory on the Attorney General's response in S-1-SC-41579, the air case.
• ▸That response argues NMED violated the petitioner's constitutional due-process rights, and that § 74-2-7(B)(3) let the department…

Searchlight New Mexico investigative reporter whose dark-money expertise the record notes as relevant to Elevate New Mexico.

• ▸Brings dark-money reporting expertise the record notes as relevant to Elevate New Mexico.

President and chief executive of the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico, quoted on the Oracle scholarship fund.

• ▸2026-08Quoted when the Oracle scholarship fund awarded 25 scholarships in August 2026.
• ▸Winter's statement: “By helping reduce financial barriers, these scholarships make it possible for more students to complete their…

The State Investment Council's chief communications officer, who said on the record that the state fund is probably indirectly invested in Apaluma.

• ▸Asked by The Candle whether New Mexico owns a stake in the regulator's contractor, Wollmann said: “I don't have official reports…

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.

• ▸The record ties the real-assets role to ODI Fund III, STACK's parent vehicle.

The 2026 Republican nominee for Commissioner of Public Lands, the office that twice denied the Green Chile pipeline's state-land crossings.

• ▸2026Unopposed in the 2026 Republican primary.
• ▸2026-11-03Faces Juan de Jesus Sanchez III in the November 3, 2026 general election.

The 2026 Democratic nominee for Commissioner of Public Lands, the office that twice denied the Green Chile pipeline's state-land crossings.

• ▸2026Won the 2026 Democratic primary with 55% over Rep. Matthew McQueen.
• ▸2026-11-03The nominee to succeed Stephanie Garcia Richard; faces Michael Jack Perry in the November 3, 2026 general election.

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.

• ▸2026-06Zetland: “the straw that breaks the camel's back is only gonna break the back because all the other straw is on the back first.”
• ▸Argues the underlying problem is that water is priced far below its value.

Pro se litigant; used ChatGPT to draft/file the suit against OpenAI's data center ('supercomputer fighting the supercomputer'); dismissed twice by Judge Foy