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While data center developers show increased interest in New Mexico, a new Journal poll finds that New Mexicans are wary, with clear majorities opposing large new developments outright and supporting a statewide pause to study local effects and develop regulations.

Overall, 65% of respondents opposed the development of 鈥渓arge-scale鈥� data centers in New Mexico, while 20% were supportive. Some 10% of respondents were undecided while 6% opted for 鈥渋t depends.鈥�

The best-known data center operating in New Mexico, and the largest, is Meta鈥檚 Los Lunas data center that opened in 2019. Construction began last year on a controversial 1,400-acre campus of four data centers in Santa Teresa, known as Project Jupiter, for Oracle Corp. and OpenAI. 

Last week, a public notice of an air-quality-permit application was published in the Silver City Daily Press for a proposed data center north of Playas in New Mexico鈥檚 Bootheel.

And in Sierra County, Canadian firm Green Data has been working with Spaceport America since 2021 on plans for a solar-powered data center. A larger project proposed by Green Data in collaboration with New Mexico Tech in Socorro County was paused this summer amid public opposition that led to a countywide temporary moratorium on data center development. Sierra County commissioners enacted a similar pause in July. 

In the Journal鈥檚 poll, Republicans tended to be more supportive of data centers, with 26% supporting their development compared to 15% of Democrats and 16% of unaffiliated or independent voters likely to vote in November.

Yet a majority of Republican respondents opposed new data centers with 55%, compared to 71% of Democrats and 70% of unaffiliated voters.

Results consistent across categories

The survey鈥檚 results likely reflect concerns over resource demands of data centers, which require high loads of consistent power 24 hours daily, as well as water for cooling, although newer-generation data centers have featured closed-loop cooling systems that reuse water. Proposals for on-site power generation facilities to supply the data centers have come under scrutiny for heavy carbon emissions. 

The poll data may also reflect attitudes about AI technology, although many data centers simply support cloud storage and routine internet activity. Data centers supporting AI infrastructure come in various sizes and functions, supporting different kinds of models and capabilities.

Whether individuals are versed in the nuances of data centers and digital technology, the results indicate they have formed clear opinions, said Brian Sanderoff, president of Albuquerque-based Research & Polling Inc., which conducted the poll.

鈥淚n this last year, the controversy regarding the development of large data centers has exploded in New Mexico and throughout the nation,鈥� he said.

Data center opposition was largely consistent across regions and demographic factors including age, ethnicity, gender, even education level. The relative uniformity across geography and identity, compared to other questions, is 鈥渉ighly unusual,鈥� Sanderoff said.

Strong support for moratorium

Respondents supported a statewide moratorium on large-scale data centers by a ratio of 3 to 1: 75% compared to 12% opposing one and 9% undecided.

Support for a moratorium was even strong among supporters of data centers. Of the 20% who supported new data centers, 57% also supported a moratorium until, as the question stated, 鈥渢he state establishes standards to regulate their impact on surrounding areas.鈥�

President Donald Trump has championed data centers as a matter of national security and global competitiveness. He that communities who oppose data centers 鈥渨ant to end up being backwards and poor鈥� and that 鈥淐hina could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement.鈥�

Yet misgivings about new data centers even scored high among New Mexico Republicans, whom Sanderoff noted 鈥渁re more likely to be pro-business and pro-growth than are Democrats鈥� and 鈥渕ore likely to be skeptical about government regulation.鈥�

Although support for data centers was higher among respondents approving of Trump, 63% of them still supported a moratorium and 54% opposed data center development.

Meanwhile, among those approving of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has supported data center development while advocating for due diligence and regulatory compliance, 71% opposed new data centers and 81% supported a moratorium.

Although a moratorium does not necessarily halt a data center project, support for a pause among those who oppose data centers in the first place stood at 87%.

鈥淭he fact that slightly more than half of the people who do support the data centers also support a moratorium or a pause demonstrates that even supporters have some concern,鈥� Sanderoff said, 鈥渁nd they would like some guardrails set up, or at least the impacts to be studied prior to development.鈥�

Methodology

The Journal Poll was conducted from Aug. 21 through Aug. 28. It is based on a statewide random sample of 516 voters who cast ballots in the 2022 and/or 2024 general elections, and a sample of adults who registered to vote since January 2025 and who said they are likely to vote in the upcoming election.

The total sample of 516 voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points. The margin of error grows for subsamples.

The sample was stratified by race/ethnicity and county and weighted by party affiliation, gender and education level based on traditional voting patterns in New Mexico general elections, to ensure a more representative sample.

All interviews were conducted by live, professional interviewers based in Albuquerque, with multiple callbacks to households that did not initially answer the phone.

Both cellphone numbers (96%) and landlines (4%) of likely general election voters were used.

Algernon 顿鈥橝尘尘补蝉蝉补 is the Journal鈥檚 southern New Mexico correspondent. He can be reached at adammassa@abqjournal.com.