Oracle and Meta Advance Border-Region Data Center Projects as Fort Bliss Site Remains Planned

Oracle is working on Project Jupiter in Doña Ana County in southern New Mexico, approximately 20 miles from Meta Platforms’ data center project under construction in El Paso, Texas. A third and larger data center project is planned at Fort Bliss in eastern El Paso, less than a 30-minute drive from the Meta site.

According to the source, all three facilities would have their own power plants at full build-out. Their combined greenhouse-gas emissions are estimated at millions of tons, equivalent to the annual emissions of more than two million cars. The estimate is aggregated across the three projects and does not provide emissions data for individual sites.

The development pattern is significant for infrastructure planning because it concentrates multiple large data center projects within a single cross-border power region. The combined requirements for generation, water and electricity could become material constraints on additional development, while environmental and permitting reviews have largely considered the projects separately because they are located in two different states.

For operators and investors, the cluster could reinforce the value of projects with secured power arrangements, transparent emissions accounting and coordinated grid and environmental planning across jurisdictions. However, the available information does not disclose data center capacity, power-plant capacity, fuel sources, capital expenditure or commissioning dates.

More broadly, Texas had 596 data centers operating or planned as of early September, according to the source. The El Paso–southern New Mexico population center encompasses about 1.2 million people, underscoring the potential relevance of cumulative infrastructure impacts in a relatively concentrated regional market.