New Mexico
DataCentersExposed tracks 17 AI data centers in New Mexico — 4 operating and 2 in the pipeline — across 7 counties, drawing 3.9 GW of reported power demand from 4 tracked corporate operators.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
New Mexico at a glance
The largest footprint in New Mexico belongs to Meta Platforms, Inc., behind 6 tracked facilities. CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera), H5 Data Centers, and Prime Data Centers round out the most active operators in the state. Many of these sites are filed under shell or project names rather than the parent's — our operator column resolves them back to the real corporate parent wherever the chain is documented.
Geographically, the buildout clusters: Bernalillo County leads New Mexico with 7 facilities and a composite risk score of 11/100. Valencia County and Doña Ana County follow. Our county risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%); the full breakdown is shown on each county page.
New Mexico is not done growing. 2 facilities are in the pipeline — proposed, permitted, or under construction — which is where residents still have a say at zoning hearings and in rate cases. Each pending project is a decision about land, water, electricity prices, and tax revenue that hasn't been finalized.
We also surface the accountability trail: 6 recent news items are tracked for New Mexico below, pulled from LegiScan and GDELT and refreshed automatically. Legislation is linked to the counties and operators it names; news is classified by community sentiment.
2035 Buildout Outlook
Under the model's moderate-growth scenario (5%/yr annual load growth), PNNL's IM3 model sites about 2 standardized 36 MW campuses in New Mexico by 2035 — roughly 72 MW of new electricity demand and ~70 M gal/yr of cooling water. Under the higher-growth scenario (15%/yr) that climbs to 5 campuses (180 MW). For scale, we currently track 17 real data centers in New Mexico (3.9 GW of reported power).
- High growth272 MW · ~70 M gal/yr cooling water
- Higher growth5180 MW · ~174 M gal/yr cooling water
The model assigns ~100% of these campuses' cooling to evaporative water cooling in New Mexico (the rest to mechanical/air cooling), a split it derives from local water stress and wet-bulb temperature.
These are modeled candidate sites, not announced or permitted facilities. PNNL's IM3 model places identical 36 MW unit-campuses at feasible locations under each scenario — it shows where demand could concentrate, never a specific parcel. Figures use a market-gravity weight of 50. How the model works.
Top operators in New Mexico
County risk leaderboard
| County | Facilities | Pipeline | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernalillo County | 7 | — | 11 |
| Valencia County | 6 | — | 10 |
| Doña Ana County | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Santa Fe County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Lea County | 1 | — | — |
| Chaves County | 1 | 1 | — |
| Socorro County | 1 | — | — |
Pipeline & proposals
All tracked facilities
| Facility | Operator | Status | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zenith Volts Data Center | — | Proposed | Chaves | 1,240 |
| Project Jupiter | OpenAI | Under construction | Doña Ana County | 700 |
| Green Data Center | — | Withdrawn | Socorro | 2,000 |
| 123 Central | — | Mapped (unverified) | Bernalillo | — |
| 505 Marquette | — | Bernalillo | — | |
| Centersquare Albuquerque (ABQ1) | CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera) | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| H5 Data Centers Albuquerque | H5 Data Centers | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Hpc | — | Mapped (unverified) | Bernalillo | — |
| Hobbs Data Center | — | Lea | — | |
| Information Systems Facility | — | Mapped (unverified) | Doña Ana | — |
| Meta | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Valencia | — |
| Meta | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Valencia | — |
| Meta | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Valencia | — |
| Meta | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Valencia | — |
| Meta | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Valencia | — |
| Meta Los Lunas Data Center | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Valencia | — |
| Molina Healthcare | — | Mapped (unverified) | Bernalillo | — |
| New Mexico State Data Center (Simms Building) | — | Mapped (unverified) | Santa Fe | — |
| Oso Grande | — | Bernalillo | — | |
| Southwest Cyberport | — | Bernalillo | — | |
| UNM Data Center | Prime Data Centers | Mapped (unverified) | Bernalillo | — |
| bigbyte.cc | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |