Lawsuit alleges NM county’s Project Jupiter data center vote violated Open Meetings Act

By: Joshua Bowling

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: February 10, 2026

Words: 588

Last Updated: 3 weeks ago

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A new lawsuit accuses Doña Ana county leaders of violating the New Mexico Open Meetings Act in September before they approved $165 billion in bonds for the data center campus Project Jupiter.

The New Mexico Environmental Law Center filed the legal challenge on Friday and accuse elected leaders of “abruptly” pausing the testy September public hearing on Project Jupiter to go into a closed-door session “without providing reasonable specificity as to the subject matter …

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