El Paso Electric

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Oracle faced pushback from Dona Ana County commissioners on Tuesday after announcing a proposed agreement to connect its Project Jupiter data center in Santa Teresa to El Paso Electric.

The company said the utility connection would provide emergency backup power and that Oracle would pay about $100 million over 10 years to offset shared system costs.

Oracle also announced up to $55 million a year in credits for New Mexico utility customers.

Uh, and this project, if you can imagine the scale of data centers, uh, they're gonna go up to about 2.5 gigawatts of power when they're fully operational.

Um, to put that in perspective, uh, down here, we, we're not on the PNM electrical system, we're on the El Paso electric system, Southern New Mexico is.

Yeah.

And if you took every customer in El Paso, Las Cruces, all the service area of, uh, of El Paso Electric, that's about what Project Jupiter's gonna use in terms of power, just to put that in perspective.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um, also, uh, so are they also in a closed system? I mean, where are...

Tesla's patent attorney had moved out to Colorado a few years earlier, and he became convinced that the high altitudes and lack of interference from tall buildings would be perfect for many of Tesla's experiments.

The attorney had also reached a remarkable agreement with the El Paso Power Company that would allow Tesla to use any excess power they generated for his laboratory.

In 1899, Tesla took up residency in Colorado Springs, where he either made astounding breakthroughs that could have changed history, or he conducted a number of expensive but fruitless experiments that earned him the ire of William Waldorf Astor, the El Paso Power Company, and the entire town of Colorado Springs.

It's controversial.

Tesla's time in Colorado Springs has given rise to all sorts of Tesla myths.

Indeed, when he returned to New York from Colorado Springs, he didn't have much to show, except for extravagant claims that worldwide wireless electricity was within his grasp, and that he had spoken to aliens.

But more worrying for William Waldorf Astor was the fact that Tesla had burned through all of his cash and was seemingly no closer to developing a wireless lighting system that they could bring to market.

What's worse is that Tesla had also left Colorado Springs owing a huge amount of money to the El Paso Power Company.

Co-serve members pay $345 once.

At El Paso Electric, base pays the host up to $250.

The house is really just a site with the utility as the counterparty.

We'll call this the utility tolling strategic formula for base power.

There is no third arrangement on the record.

Build transfer to an investor owned utility exists as an advertised option, but nothing has closed.

El Paso Electric is a tolling pilot with base retaining ownership.

The AI load direction the company talks about has no transacting customer.

So more to come on where we're going to be moving that range.

And then we also have our line worker program that we partnered up with the El Paso Electric.

And so we have our facilities out there and the students go out there and they climb those poles and learn how to fix and repair electrical wiring and the lines throughout our city.

Oh, wow.

Um, What about the pipeline? Because the pipeline is really interesting because this thing is not going to work unless Project Jupiter gets their natural gas.

Well, and because they're using all these independent generators, right? In theory, El Paso Electric says, oh, never mind, they're not going to use our generators, but we know they are, or their power, but we know they're going to plug into the grid.

But, yeah, there's an undercurrent on this.

For folks that haven't followed, they need this huge gas pipeline that you talked about.