Lea County Data Center
New Era Energy & Digital, Inc. has proposed a 7000 MW data center in Lea County, New Mexico (proposed). One source reports this facility in the Kapwork Grow tracker.
- Capacity
- 7000 MW
- Site
- 3,500 acres
Who's on this build
Named in the cited sources. No source reports who builds it.
- Other New Era Energy & Digital, Inc. builds
Operator
New Era Energy & Digital, Inc.
Timeline
Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred.
Reported updates without an event date
Reported for 2026.
Event date: Not reported · First observed: Not reported
Record quality
- Datasets
- 1
- Location
- Street address reported
- Summary
- From published records
- Source as of
- Last material change
Site and infrastructure
CA Compute AtlasKW Kapwork Grow tracker record
Status
- Operator
- New Era Energy & Digital, Inc.
- Stage
- Proposed
- Facility type
- AI data center
Scale
- Reported capacity
- 7000 MW
- Site area
- 3,500 acres
Site
- City
- Lovington
- County
- Lea
- State
- New Mexico
- Location precision
- Street address reported
Power and cooling
- Power source
- Mixed sources
- AI workload
- Confirmed AI or machine-learning workload
Sources, method and limits
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What each source reports
| Dataset | Reported name | Reported status | Reported MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute Atlas | Lea County Data Center | Proposed | 7000 MW |
Sources and evidence
- CACompute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)As of: Sep 15, 2026 · Record: new-era-energy-digital-lea-county-data-center-nm
- CAData Center Dynamics (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 17, 2026
- CAAlbuquerque Journal (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 17, 2026
- CAPOWER Magazine (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Aug 8, 2026
- CABaxtel (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Sep 3, 2026
- CA
- CANew Era Energy & Digital, Inc. (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Sep 15, 2026
- KWKapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)As of: Sep 23, 2026 · Record: 140600567405137
Limitations and interpretation
- This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-09-23. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
- Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
- An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
- Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.
Cite or correct this record
Kapwork Grow, “Lea County Data Center”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/lea-county-data-center-nm-dc_7fe01ee01a51, materially updated Sep 24, 2026.
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