Project dossier · Los Lunas, New Mexico

Meta Los Lunas Operating

Chip types: B300. Epoch AI estimates ~87 MW.

Key facts

Operator
Meta
Owner
Meta
Size
87 MW
Location
Los Lunas, New Mexico
Stage today
Operating

Source
read 2026-08-14

What to do next

Next step: Already operating — the leverage now is enforcement: noise and water conditions, tax revenue tracking, and any expansion filing, which reopens the record.

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What has happened so far (12 events)

  • 2016-09-14announcement
    Facebook announced plans to build a new data center in Los Lunas, New Mexico, its seventh overall and fifth in the U.S., to be powered by 100% renewable energy. · source
  • 2016-09-14incentive
    New Mexico's congressional delegation welcomed the Facebook data center announcement; senators and representatives had previously written to the PRC advocating for Los Lunas as the site. · source
  • 2016-09-15coverage
    The Los Lunas Village Council had approved an up-to-$30 billion industrial revenue bond proposal in late June 2016 under the codename 'Greater Kudu' without initially knowing Facebook's involvement; the project also used codenames 'Project Antelope' and 'Project Discus' during a competitive process with Utah. · source
  • 2016-10-11construction
    Facebook held a groundbreaking ceremony at the Huning Business Park in Los Lunas, attended by Governor Susana Martinez and Mayor Charles Griego, beginning the $250 million Phase 1 construction. · source
  • 2019-02-07operational
    Facebook opened its Los Lunas data center campus, initially supporting over 150 jobs, with the facility pursuing LEED v4 Gold certification and backed by over 396 MW of new wind and solar resources on the New Mexico grid. · source
  • 2021-10-27announcement
    Facebook announced a two-building, $800 million expansion of the Los Lunas campus, bringing total investment to nearly $2 billion and projected employment to over 400 operational jobs, with a new goal to restore 200% of water consumed to New Mexico watersheds. · source
  • 2021-10-27coverage
    Facebook announced the two new buildings would form an H-shape on the southern end of the 750-acre campus, with each data hall housing 3,200 servers; ground preparation by Fortis was underway with foundation construction to begin January 2022 and first building turnover targeted for October 2024. · source
  • 2021-10-27coverage
    The $800 million expansion was reported to bring total investment to $2.2 billion, expand the campus to nearly 3.8 million square feet across eight buildings, and employ over 1,000 construction workers with more than 70% New Mexico subcontractors. · source
  • 2025-01-16announcement
    The Los Lunas Village Council unanimously approved a resolution declaring intent to issue up to six series of IRBs not exceeding $7.5 billion each for Greater Kudu LLC (Meta subsidiary) to build two new AI-dedicated buildings for $800 million, with construction expected to begin spring 2025 and take 2-3 years. · source
  • 2025-02-13incentive
    The Los Lunas Village Council unanimously approved an IRB ordinance for Greater Kudu LLC and unanimously approved an amended water agreement capping daily use at 3 million gallons (reduced from 4.5 million), removing the data center's previous priority status during shortages, and keeping the annual allocation at 500 acre-feet. · source
  • 2025-03-01report
    The Los Lunas Village Council approved a project partnership with tax incentives requiring Meta to invest $350 million in the expansion within 10 years of the agreement. · source
  • 2025-12-22permit
    Meta acquired a 474-acre parcel adjacent to its existing Los Lunas data center campus at $128,500 per acre, brokered by CBRE, within the Huning Business and Tech Park for next-generation data center facilities. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (1 filed · 11 places to look)

Permits already on file (1)

Filings we have a source for — the record, not a place to look for one.

  • 2025-12-22
    Meta acquired a 474-acre parcel adjacent to its existing Los Lunas data center campus at $128,500 per acre, brokered by CBRE, within the Huning Business and Tech Park for next-generation data center facilities. · source

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

  • Search Los Lunas planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
  • Search Los Lunas property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

  • EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 34.800, -106.730 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
  • EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
  • EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Meta Los Lunas”, aigridwatch.com/projects/meta-los-lunas, retrieved 2026-10-11.

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.

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