Heath Haussamen
Among borderlands reporters, El Paso Matters’ Diego Mendoza-Moyers and I are probably the most acutely focused on data centers. Last week I sat down with Mendoza-Moyers to talk about Project Jupiter for a podcast he produces.
We discussed how Project Jupiter came to be and the latest on the massive campus of advanced artificial intelligence data centers that is being built in Santa Teresa. We talked about how it fits into a region where three massive data center projects could require more than twice as much electricity as every El Paso Electric customer from Van Horn, Texas to Hatch, N.M. combined.
The reporting Mendoza-Moyers and I have done was recently featured in Columbia Journalism Review’s article on doing journalism on data centers in a time of diminished local news capacity. So it was great to talk with him.
I believe it’s really important, when possible, to think about the region we live in as one, rather than three separate states in two nations. We breathe the same air and drink from the same water sources. Jobs and economic activity in any part of this region benefit us all.
I think you’ll find the conversation insightful. It’s 52 minutes long. Listen when you have time by clicking here.
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