@cbsnews: Data centers are all over the news, but what's real and what's fake? CBS reporter Riley Callanan traveled to New Mexico the desert just to see Project Jupiter for herself. It's one of the country's biggest hyperscale data centers – and what she found on the other side wasn't just 1,400 acres of blinding light in the desert sky. There is a community that doesn't trust its own tap water, farmers whose water allotments have dropped from 4 feet to 4 inches, and a fight over whether there is enough water to fuel the AI boom. #datacenter #newmexico
Have a small pecan farm in La Mesa NM, we won’t get anything near 4 inches of water this year or any year in the foreseeable future!!!
2026-08-25 23:06:29
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Toast :
Goodbye to all our water 🤦♀️
2026-08-25 17:08:36
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Stephan Roybal :
Why build it in a desert? Doesn't make any sense.
2026-08-25 19:53:02
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Momo :
As a New Mexican … it is worse than she says… thank you for sharing.
2026-08-25 16:50:35
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Who wants to know :
Have they forgot about the Dust Bowl that cycle will come back.We need the water
2026-08-25 22:42:19
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C. Lou :
we are fighting PJ so hard, no one but politicians who have been paid want it
2026-08-25 22:19:22
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rgarc04 :
the Rio grande is completely dry- bone dry!!!
2026-08-25 21:30:27
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JT :
We don't need AI
2026-08-25 21:26:35
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JenG 🐶 :
We get about 8 inch a year and we have two more data centers going up in El Paso and Fort Bliss
2026-08-25 22:31:52
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age :
People of New Mexico never voted for this. They just put it up on their own.
2026-08-25 20:36:14
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@geomtgirl :
Closed loop is bs and water they dump is filthy
2026-08-25 18:58:36
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scott :
They Can Build These Data Centers But Could Not Find Homes For Homeless People. And We Will Be Out Of Water And Electric Sooner Than Later.
2026-08-25 22:42:21
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MikeSwift :
That entire Mesa was pitch black before they used to be there. Now it looks like a city itself. Not to mention that the water company who serves us there is completely unreliable. So yeah let’s add a data center. That makes sense.
2026-08-25 19:24:41
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2under :
End the billionaires take over
2026-08-25 20:51:42
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Equinox :
WE DONT HAVE WATER IN NEW MEXICO ALREADY WTF ARE THEY DOING????
2026-08-25 20:13:47
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Nikki :
We don’t want Oracle with there stupid data center here in New Mexico!!!
2026-08-25 18:04:51
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Sabine :
That is shameful
2026-08-25 20:21:26
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spicy🦄🎀🩰 :
people say they don’t care until it happens to them..
2026-08-25 17:00:06
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Trap dondo :
Thank you for the work your doing.
2026-08-25 16:50:20
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username28112025 :
all across the world
2026-08-25 16:49:20
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zekkah :
they don't have ground water there?
2026-08-25 16:48:52
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katroseee ⁷ :
We don’t want this. We literally have no water here in NM. The Rio Grande isn’t running. This is waaay worse than anyone is seeing.
2026-08-25 22:18:14
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Equinox :
In a few years we can all clutch our loved ones as we die together from dehydration.
2026-08-25 20:16:33
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puggie102 :
Don’t they use a lot of water? They put on in the desert. Really.
2026-08-25 17:35:46
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