Twelve state attorneys general urge FERC to approve Oracle data center pipeline

Twelve US state attorneys general have asked federal regulators to approve a natural gas pipeline that would feed an Oracle data center in New Mexico. Their letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) supports fast-tracking the project. The notable part is who isn’t on the list of supporters. New Mexico’s own attorney general, Raúl Torrez, is on the other side, pushing for a more thorough environmental review of the very project the coalition wants moved along. What’s in the pipe The project is called the Green Chile pipeline. It would run 17.8 miles through Doña Ana County, New Mexico. A subsidiary of Energy Transfer LP operates the line. Once running, it is designed to move up to 400 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. That gas has a single, very hungry customer in mind. It would power Bloom Energy fuel cells at Oracle’s Project Jupiter, a data center campus built to serve the growing demands of AI companies, particularly OpenAI. The scale is hard to overstate. Project Jupiter is projected to reach a capacity of approximately 2.5 GW, with a potential investment of up to $165 billion. Supporters point to the local payoff. The project is expected to create appr...