Oracle asks FERC to fast-track gas pipeline for New Mexico AI data center

Oracle wants federal regulators to move faster on a natural gas pipeline. The company says its New Mexico AI data center depends on it. The request lands at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). It concerns the proposed Green Chile pipeline, which would carry fuel to the power source of Project Jupiter, Oracle’s data center campus in Doña Ana County near Santa Teresa. What Oracle is asking for The appeal came from Josh Pitcock, Oracle’s senior vice president of government affairs. He made it in a letter dated October 13, 2026. Pitcock’s argument centers on time. Oracle says continued delays threaten the project’s schedule, its potential job creation and the wider economic benefits it expects to bring to the region. The pipeline itself is not enormous by industry standards. It is approximately 17.8 miles long and designed to move up to 400 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. That gas would not feed a traditional power plant. It would instead run Bloom Energy fuel cells, devices that convert fuel into electricity through a chemical reaction rather than combustion. Project Jupiter aims to draw between 2.45 and 2.5 GW of power from those fuel cells. How the pipeline g...