Two New Mexico Supreme Court rulings will allow water to flow and permitting to continue for the Project Jupiter data center, which is currently under construction. Meanwhile, one of the conservation groups that lost its effort to cut off the water says it is gearing up for a long legal fight. The site is being built by Oracle and is expected to house OpenAI, known for its ChatGPT platform. … The recent rulings restore Oracle’s access to non-potable groundwater via a private supplier. The Center for Biological Diversity sued New Mexico State Engineer Elizabeth Anderson in one case over water use, and the group New Energy Economy sued New Mexico Environment Secretary James Kenney in another, over air quality permitting.

Other data center water use and regulation news:

• Arizona’s Family (Phoenix): As data centers expand across Arizona, experts weigh water concerns and evolving technology
• AZ Luminaria (Tucson): Pima County supervisors approve data center moratorium
• ABC4 (Salt Lake City): New polling shows concerns about water, data centers weigh heavily on Utah voters
• The Business Journal (Fresno, Calif.): Tulare County extends data center moratorium to 2027, formally opposes development
• Las Vegas Review-Journal: Switch looks to build new data centers in Las Vegas Valley
• The Denver Gazette (Colo.): Aurora residents claim they were blindsided by proposed data center nearby
• The Nevada Independent: Opinion: How I learned to stop worrying and love data centers