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Water use figures unveiled for controversial New Mexico data center
A public meeting in Sunland Park this week was standing-room only as community members expressed concerns about the massive project, especially its planned water usage.
The campus, which would include four data center facilities, would feature a “closed-loop” system of pipes to cool the computer servers inside the buildings, which developers say would require a one-time fill-up before the water is recycled over and over. In a paper published in March, electricity researchers at Harvard Law School wrote that some U.S. utilities are “forcing the public to pay for infrastructure designed to supply a handful of exceedingly wealthy corporations.” Near the end of the packed, raucous meeting Tuesday, Sunland Park resident Albert Ibarra was jeered by the audience and argued back and forth with Saldaña as he expressed his support for Project Jupiter and the employment its developers said they’ll create.
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