Oracle's Project Jupiter Tops Out First 855,000 sq ft Building in NM
Clayco set the final beam on the first 855,000-square-foot Project Jupiter building, but the campus's gas supply for its 2.45 GW fuel-cell microgrid is still unresolved.
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The first 855,000-square-foot portion of Project Jupiter has its final beam; worker and capacity figures are company claims and up-to plans.
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Clayco has placed the final structural beam on the first building of the Project Jupiter data center campus in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, a first portion of 855,000 square feet, according to Construction Review Online on Oct. 27. Three more buildings are still to come.
Voltgrid reported on Oct. 27 that the campus's air permit survives with a 1,600 MW cap. The topping out is the first sign of how far the steel has come: ground was broken in October 2025, so the frame took about a year, and Clayco says the project is more than 25% complete.
Topping out finishes the structural frame, not the building. Mechanical, electrical and cooling systems still go inside. The report puts Phase 1, about 400 acres, at a target of the third quarter of 2028, with around 4,400 workers on site and more than 3.7 million labour hours logged.
Power is the open question
The campus is designed to run on Bloom Energy fuel cells in an on-site microgrid of up to 2.45 GW, which need natural gas. Construction Review Online reports that the proposed 17-mile Green Chile pipeline has been rejected twice by the New Mexico state land office and that its in-service date has slipped from August 2026 to February 2027.
The up-to 2.45 GW fuel-cell microgrid depends on gas from a 17-mile pipeline that the state land office has rejected twice, Construction Review Online reports.
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In September, Oracle sent a force majeure notice to the Blue Owl unit developing the site. The report says that does not mean Oracle is leaving: it protects the company if power commitments slip and could delay rent by up to three years. Oracle says the project remains on schedule.
Scope and water
The 1,400-acre plan includes four data center buildings, microgrid facilities, natural gas plants, a battery storage centre and a desalination plant, with full build-out of up to 2.5 GW. Stack Infrastructure and BorderPlex Digital Assets are developing it, and Oracle will occupy it to run AI infrastructure for OpenAI.
On cooling, the companies say no public drinking water will be used for cooling or the fuel cells. Four closed-loop, non-evaporative systems get a one-time fill of non-potable well water bought from an existing New Mexico water-rights holder, then recirculate.
The $165 billion figure attached to the project is a 30-year ceiling on industrial revenue bonds that Doña Ana County approved in September 2025, not a construction budget. A separate $18 billion loan package is financing the build, according to the report.
What is not confirmed yet
Firm natural gas supply for the fuel-cell microgrid is the unresolved item, and the pipeline's February 2027 date has already moved once. The figures on workers, contracts and completion come from the companies. Voltgrid will update this report when the pipeline or the Phase 1 schedule changes.
