Building an AI supercampus increasingly means paying more than you bargained for. Oracle’s attempt to salvage a proposed $165 billion project on the rocks in New Mexico is a recent example. The cloud provider earlier this year was planning to spend billions of dollars to build its own natural-gas plants to power Project Jupiter, a 1,400-acre, two-plus gigawatt AI data center for OpenAI near the Texas border town of El Paso. But a state environmental permit application stalled over air pollution and greenhouse-gas concerns.
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