Oracle Cites 'Force Majeure' on Controversial New Mexico Data Center

What happened

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Key details

• Rather than trying to walk away as the site’s main tenant, Oracle is attempting to put off payments should the data center dubbed Project Jupiter get derailed and fail to come online in 2028 as planned, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private matters.
• Almost two years later, the campus designed to handle 2.45 gigawatts — enough electricity to power roughly 1.8 million homes at any given moment — has hit serious setbacks including the denial of a permit key to its plans for energy resources.
• Earlier this year, Alphabet Inc.’s Google agreed to pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX for computing power through mid-2029, for example, but reserved the right to terminate if it didn’t gain access by a certain date.

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