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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Green Data / Aetherion Inc.
- Address and locality
- Sierra County · New Mexico
- Lifecycle status
- reported cancelled
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 5 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000759
What the source record says
Sited on state trust land inside Spaceport America's 18,000-acre lease outside Truth or Consequences. Current plan would occupy 21 acres within the horizontal launch area, possibly plus 30 additional acres. Spaceport America says discussions with Green Data have been ongoing since 2021 and that the project 'is not a relocation of the Socorro proposal'; only 'limited planning agreements' are in effect. Capacity has not been disclosed.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-07-20 · reported proposed
Public records surfaced a State Land Office sublease application, signed by Spaceport America director Scott McLaughlin in February 2026, to rent land to Green Data developer Aetherion Inc. for $176,400 annually; the application remains under review by the Commissioner of Public Lands.
- 2026-09-03 · reported cancelled
The NM State Land Office rejected the Aetherion/Green Data sublease proposal at Spaceport America on 2026-09-03, and Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard ruled Sierra County's 2026-07-21 data-center moratorium applies to Spaceport activity despite it sitting on state trust land. Spaceport's executive director Scott McLaughlin said the facility will honor the decision. The developer (Jason Bak) did not respond to comment and left the door open to a future proposal once moratoria expire, but this specific sublease proposal is dead as of this report.
Sources and attribution
- Spaceport America data center proposal sparks curiosity · El Defensor Chieftain
- New Mexico county adopts data center moratorium as residents protest Spaceport proposal · Source New Mexico
- Developer plans 'world's largest' green data center in Socorro (Spaceport America companion-project detail) · Albuquerque Journal
- Spaceport America in talks with Green Data for data center project in Sierra County · Albuquerque Journal
- New Mexico land commissioner shoots down Canadian data center company's pitch at Spaceport America · Source New Mexico (via Yahoo News)
- Sierra County enacts 18-month data center moratorium in surprise vote · Albuquerque Journal
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID green-data-spaceport-america-sierra-county-nm. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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