Corporate Chain
BorderPlex Digital Assets
Local project developer. Founder: Lanham Napier (former Rackspace CEO). Registered in Doña Ana County. The visible face of the project in NM; holds contracts with the state, county, and NMSU.
STACK Infrastructure
The named operator of the Jupiter data center campus. Owned by Blue Owl Capital.
Blue Owl Capital
Private equity firm. Owns STACK Infrastructure (the operator) and committed $3 billion in debt financing for the project — the same firm is the equity owner and the primary lender.
Green Chile Ventures LLC
Oracle’s New Mexico subsidiary. Registered September 2025 — one day before the September 19 county vote. An “anchor client” creating a new NM entity specifically tied to this project.
OpenAI / Oracle
Named anchor clients for the campus. Oracle’s court filing (November 2025) stated that the IRB incentives are a “prerequisite” for the project.
Yucca Growth Infrastructure (formerly Acoma LLC)
Special-purpose entity that filed the split air construction permit applications with NMED. Renamed April 2026 after the Pueblo of Acoma objected to the use of their name without consent.
JPMorgan Chase
Provided initial financing. Part of the capital stack alongside Blue Owl.
County Officials
Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez
Commission Chair, voted YES on IRB. Given unilateral authority to execute bond documents in private. Served simultaneously on the MVEDA board — the economic development entity that recruited the Jupiter project — without disclosure or recusal.
Shannon Reynolds
Former District 3 Commissioner. Voted YES on IRB. Posted personal information of anti-Jupiter commenters on Facebook on September 5, 2025. Resigned December 28, 2025. Now running for Doña Ana County Assessor in the June 2, 2026 Democratic primary. Ethics complaint statute of limitations: September 2026.
Jose Ibarra
Active BorderPlex consultant who publicly supported the September 19 IRB vote. Now running for District 3 County Commission in the June 2, 2026 Democratic primary.
Daisy Maldonado
Former director of the Empowerment Congress of Doña Ana County. Fired after CAA-SNM ordered the Empowerment Congress to withdraw from the lawsuit against the Jupiter IRB. Now running for District 1 County Commission in the June 2, 2026 Democratic primary. Campaign: daisy4dist1.com
Susie Kimble
Appointed February 2026 to fill Reynolds’ vacant District 3 seat. Running as an independent in the November general election.
State Officials
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
Signed MOU with BorderPlex on February 25, 2025 — seven months before the public vote that was supposed to authorize the project. Signed Strategic Water Supply Act (HB 137) in April 2025, creating a $75M desalination fund administered by the same official who signed the MOU.
Rob Black
NM Economic Development Department Secretary. Signed the BorderPlex MOU. Administers the Strategic Water Supply Act desalination fund. Doña Ana County is seeking $25M from that fund to build the water infrastructure Jupiter requires.
Alicia Keyes
Former NM Economic Development Secretary. After leaving state government, founded Apaluma Inc., which holds a contract with NMED to digitize permit data. Simultaneously lobbies NMED on behalf of BorderPlex’s air and water permit applications. Her firm sells data analytics services to the agency she is lobbying.
The Community Action Mechanism
CAA-SNM (Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico)
Statewide community action agency that is 99.6% government grant-funded. Ordered the Empowerment Congress of Doña Ana County to withdraw from the lawsuit challenging the Jupiter IRB. The structural dependence on government funding creates a systemic vulnerability to funding-lever pressure.
Active board members at time of withdrawal order:
- Dawn Z. Hommer (CEO) — gave the withdrawal order directly
- Ray Lara (Secretary) — NM House Representative, District 34 (the Jupiter project district); has made no public statement on Project Jupiter
- Mark Pickett (Treasurer) — The Pickett Law Firm (government-oriented legal practice)
- Maria Zuniga — Las Cruces Public Schools employee
- Abeer Al-Ghawi — Ngage New Mexico (regional economic development nonprofit)
NMSU
NMSU Administration
Signed a $30,000 contract with BorderPlex on February 25, 2025 (same day as Governor MOU). Contract includes an NDA requiring NMSU to:
- Mark documents proprietary at BorderPlex’s request
- Notify BorderPlex of incoming IPRA requests
- Assist BorderPlex in contesting public records releases
A public university, funded by New Mexico taxpayers, is contractually required to run interference against public records requests for a private company.
Astroturf
Elevate New Mexico
Unregistered advocacy group that ran paid advertising during the NMED air permit public comment period. Physical address: a Virginia mail drop. Campaign managed by a Washington DC public relations firm. Source NM investigation published March 4, 2026.
Environmental/Legal
NMELC (New Mexico Environmental Law Center)
Filed the primary lawsuit (NMELC v. Doña Ana County Board of County Commissioners) challenging the IRB approval on Open Meetings Act grounds. Attorney: Kacey Hovden. Motion to dismiss denied March 2026. Preliminary injunction denied. Case proceeding on merits.
NM Foundation for Open Government (NMFOG)
Has identified the September 19, 2025 closed session as an OMA violation.