Oracle seeks payment delay protection for New Mexico data center

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Published Thursday, September 24, 2026 · 10:08 PM EDT

Oracle has sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a planned New Mexico AI data center, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Oracle wants the right to delay payments if the campus misses its planned 2028 opening, rather than leave as its main tenant. The campus is part of the Stargate effort to build computing capacity for OpenAI. Its planned power supply depends on natural gas for Bloom Energy fuel cells. New Mexico rejected rights-of-way for a gas pipeline in March and July, and the pipeline developer rerouted it across federal land. Oracle said in August that the project remained on schedule.

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