County CommissionThursday, November 12
Doña Ana County sends Project Jupiter a second breach notice over missed job reports
The Daily Las Cruces team
Doña Ana County commissioners voted 4 to 0 Tuesday to notify Project Jupiter's developers of a potential breach of contract, the second notice in a month. Chair Manuel Sanchez's motion cited a failure to report jobs data as the project's bond and community benefits agreements require.
- Deadline missed: Oct. 31 jobs report, third-quarter data incomplete
- Penalty if reports lapse: no state disbursements
- Second time in 2026 jobs data missed its deadline
STACK Infrastructure, one of the companies leading the data center, told ABC-7 its worker counts have been submitted to the county.
STACK says more than 5,000 workers are on site
- 5,000+
- workers on site as of October 2026
- 1,652
- of them are New Mexico residents
- 756
- of them are Doña Ana County residents
Source: KVIA
Commissioners also approved an application process for water and wastewater money from the $50 million in GRT proceeds that the community benefits agreements send back into Doña Ana. First up: $3 million to Sunland Park for cleaning and refurbishing water tanks maintained by the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA). The other $7 million goes to qualifying systems.
$3 million of the county's $10 million goes to CRRUA tank work
Project Jupiter funds the county holds for water projects, $10 million, by where it comes from and where it goes
Comes from
$10 million
Goes to
Comes from
- $10M Funds on hand 100%
$10 million
Goes to
- $3M CRRUA tank work 30%
- $7M Other water systems 70%
Source: KRWG Public Media
View as table
| Amount | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| From: Funds on hand | $10 million | 100% |
| To: CRRUA tank work | $3 million | 30% |
| To: Other water systems | $7 million | 70% |
If you run one of the county's 37 domestic water utilities, the first application deadline is Dec. 10. Funds will go out in two waves.
Sources: KVIA, Las Cruces Sun-News, 96.3 KKOB, KRWG Public Media