Gallup City Council punts decision on wastewater agreement with proposed NM data center project

By: Joshua Bowling, Patrick Lohmann

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: April 29, 2026

Words: 798

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago


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The Gallup City Council on Tuesday night voted 4-1 to delay a vote on an agreement that would deliver nearly 110 million gallons of wastewater each year to a proposed 330-acre data center.

Greg Thompson, the co-founder of Teraplex Data Centers LLC, told the City Council that he wanted to build a data center in the Gallup Tradeport with a tenant like Oracle, Meta, Amazon or Microsoft. Much like the Oracle and OpenAI