The Green Chile pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s Project Jupiter data centre in New Mexico has been pushed from 15 August to 1 February 2027, according to a filing by Energy Transfer’s Transwestern unit. The state land commissioner has twice refused the route, citing water use and emissions.
The pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s largest planned data centre has slipped by nearly six months. Energy Transfer’s Transwestern unit told federal regulators on Friday that the Green Chile Project now has an in-service date of 1 February 2027, against a previous target of 15 August.
What it feeds is not a normal building. Project Jupiter in Doña Ana County is planned at 2.5 gigawatts, powered by Bloom Energy fuel cells, with Oracle as the tenant hosting AI infrastructure for OpenAI.
The numbers around it are large in every direction. Developers Stack and BorderPlex Digital Assets have talked of investing up to $165bn across 1,400 acres and four buildings, at a company already borrowing heavily to build data centres. The pipeline would carry up to 400 million cubic feet of gas a day, roughly 0.4% of everything produced in the lower 48 states.
Standing in the way is one elected official. New Mexico land commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard has refused the route twice, first in March and again on 15 July, because it crosses state trust land.
