AI innovation requires significant investment in data centers to support the next generation of AI accelerators. It is equally critical that these facilities are designed responsibly - with disciplined approaches to power and water, and a positive, durable impact on the local community. Oracle is proud to be the anchor tenant of southern New Mexico’s Project Jupiter, a world-class AI data center campus powered by a local microgrid, ensuring no impact to local utility ratepayers, and engineered with closed-loop, non-evaporative cooling that uses no water from the local community. The campus will deliver high-quality jobs, sustainable infrastructure, and long-term economic benefits to Doña Ana County, while strengthening America’s position in the global AI race. https://lnkd.in/gmfGx67C
This is the right standard for AI buildout. Proving power and water discipline, protecting local ratepayers, and delivering durable jobs is how data centers earn social license and long term community support.
Brian Preston
1mo
Incredible project indeed! Congrats to all involved.
keep building!
ForceTechh
1mo
Pradeep Vincent I keep reading this less as a hiring story and more as a pressure story. Forecasts don’t usually double unless something external forces the math to change. Pushback, permitting friction, accountability questions, those things tend to surface before any real shift in the work itself. What’s interesting is how hiring language gets used here. Jobs become a way to steady trust and keep momentum when automation and efficiency narratives stop landing. The number matters less than the function it’s serving in the moment. We tried to slow this down and explain why workforce forecasts are starting to act like trust signals instead of clean indicators of labor demand. Put our take together here if you’re curious: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/forcetechh_forthepeople-futureofwork-workforcestrategy-activity-7421743454801629184-mQK4 When hiring numbers start doing reputational work, how should workers and communities actually read them anymore?
Short-term construction jobs, sure. But anything more than a handful of people to manage the data center once its built, people aren't buying it. That fluff piece in Bloomberg today? Looked like a press release. The local Doña Ana County residents shared public comment during a meeting to discuss Project Jupiter that was not at all in favor of it. At all. According to The New York Times reporting on this data center meeting, "Ms. Fuller said she and everyone else in that room were more than a little scarred by the arsenic episode of 2023. Locals had complained about the taste, smell and brownish hue of the water for a long time, but only when faucets produced something that looked like slime did local officials start handing out bottled water. The incident is part of a long legacy of mistrust. “We’ve been fighting for clean, safe drinking water for a long time,” said Ms. Fuller, who works for the Empowerment Congress, a nonprofit activist group. “To have this humongous data center come in now — it’s awful.” If people want to know what's really going on in New Mexico, here is the recording of that meeting at the point of public comment: https://www.youtube.com/live/wgLPWsQLMMA?si=StmOFbp0wNZV2Huy&t=16975