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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- New Era Energy & Digital, Inc.
- Address and locality
- Lovington · Lea County · New Mexico
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 7,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001044
What the source record says
Land-option signed for approximately 3,500 acres near Lovington. Gas (>2GW) plus nuclear (5GW+) powered. First power targeted 2028; still pre-construction.
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 · reported proposed
Signed land-option for approximately 3,500 acres; gas (over 2GW) plus nuclear (5GW+) powered; first power targeted 2028; pre-construction.
Sources and attribution
- New Era plans 7GW AI data center in Lea County, New Mexico · Data Center Dynamics
- New Era Lea County data center coverage · Albuquerque Journal
- Nuclear, Natural Gas Power Generation Planned for Massive New Mexico Data Center Site · POWER Magazine
- New Era Energy & Digital - Lea County, New Mexico Project · Baxtel
- New Era Energy & Digital enters into land option purchase agreement for 3,500 acres in New Mexico for 7GW AI data center hub · Yahoo Finance / Business Wire (New Era Energy & Digital, Inc., Nasdaq: NUAI)
- New Era Energy & Digital — project portfolio page (Lea County: 7+ GW planned capacity, 3,500 acres) · New Era Energy & Digital, Inc.
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID new-era-energy-digital-lea-county-data-center-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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