CASE STUDY 2026-08 v06 / BOJE / LAS CRUCES 88011 DOÑA ANA COUNTY / CABALLO 87931 / SIX DATA CENTERS

Six Data Centers and a Scholar: You Already Live Inside an AI Data Center

From Las Cruces, Doña Ana County and Caballo, NM — tracing Amazon, Prime, Gmail, Maps, Search plus storying.site, davidboje.com, tamaraland.us, quantumstorytelling.org — Houston → Ashburn → Portland → Phoenix → Mesa → Santa Teresa.

Core Argument: You don't need to go to Ashburn. Ashburn came to Doña Ana County.
1 HOUSTON DataBank $670M 42.5MW 2 ASHBURN EDGE Equinix $193M LLC veil 3 PORTLAND/AWS Porkbun pixie Oregon 4 PHOENIX phoenixNAP DE-CIX 5 MESA $600M Gmail/Maps/Search 6 SANTA TERESA $165B Oracle/OpenAI in your county

1. Inventory — Six Sites

Domain / Service	Provider	Physical Cage	What it powers for you	Tax / LLC
storying.site + davidboje.com Same HostGator main account	HostGator / Unified Layer AS46606 IP 192.185.16.216 HGBLOCK-10	CyrusOne Houston West 5170 Westway Park Blvd Houston TX 77041 → DataBank 300k sq ft 42.5MW $670M 2023 Edge: Equinix DC11 21721 Filigree Ct Ashburn 60,589 sq ft 1360+ cos	Your books, vita — self-reflexive: site studying DCs is in a DC	DIGITAL LOUDOUN 3 LLC $139M Parcel 089-29-1706 IAD36 EQUINIX R P II LLC $193M
tamaraland.us	Porkbun LLC pixie-ss1-ftp.porkbun.com ASN 16509 Amazon	AWS US-West Oregon — Hillsboro OR, 67 facilities 10.4M sq ft, Portland HQ 11575 SW Pacific Hwy Tigard	Antenarrative theory	Amazon REIT
quantumstorytelling.org	Namecheap AS22612	phoenixNAP PHX01 3402 E University Dr Phoenix AZ 85034 200k sq ft, DE-CIX Phoenix, 30 carriers Secondary Atlanta 1130 Powers Ferry Marietta GA	Conference site	phoenixNAP LLC Maricopa County
Gmail / Maps / Search Your daily from Las Cruces / Caballo	Google AS15169	Google Mesa $600M 185 acres Redhawk — GPLET 25yr July 2019, must spend $600M capex by July 2025, air-cool claim, Gov Katie Hobbs broke ground Sept 6 2023 Backup: Council Bluffs IA 10420 Bunge Ave (Gmail storage), Mayes County OK MidAmerica (2 DCs $700M+ plus 3 new Muskogee/Stillwater OGE Energy)	Every Gmail, Map, Search you do — Mesa is closest Google DC ~320 miles from Las Cruces	Mesa GPLET — $156.57M est tax 25yr despite property tax abatement
Amazon Purchases / Prime / Prime Video + Project Jupiter — IN YOUR COUNTY	AWS + Oracle + OpenAI Stargate	AWS: Phoenix Local Zone phoenixNAP, Mesa 4x227k sq ft, Wavelength Zones Phoenix/Houston/Dallas (Verizon 5G), CloudFront Dallas/Fort Worth 4 PoPs PROJECT JUPITER — Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County — 1,400 acres, 4 buildings, micro-grid, battery storage, desalination plant, $50B initial / $165B 30yr IRB — largest capital investment in NM history — Bloom Energy fuel cells 2.45GW replacing gas turbines/diesel — Tenant Oracle for OpenAI Stargate — Doña Ana Commission approved Sept 2024-25 — 40 miles south of Las Cruces	Every Amazon cart, Prime stream, and future ChatGPT query — Jupiter will host OpenAI AI training/inference for Stargate — in Doña Ana County	Doña Ana County IRB historic — BorderPlex Digital Assets + Yucca Growth Infrastructure + Bloom Energy — public comment opened April 2026 for updated fuel cell plan

2. Why Las Cruces / Caballo Matters

From 88011 (Las Cruces) and 87931 (Caballo), your traffic:

Amazon: Las Cruces ISP (CenturyLink/Lumen, Xfinity, T-Mobile Home) → CloudFront Dallas/Fort Worth (4 PoPs) → Phoenix Local Zone inference (low-latency AI) → Oregon us-west-2 control plane → back. Prime Video cached Dallas.
Google: Caballo → Mesa Redhawk is shortest path (~5-8ms fiber) vs Iowa (~40ms). So your Gmail likely hits Mesa first since 2024-25.
Project Jupiter: You live in the same county as Oracle's $165B AI campus — you can attend county commissioner meetings, FOIA water use, interview neighbors in Santa Teresa/ Sunland Park.

3. Theory: Distribution of Materiality — Update

For antenarrative.com and tamaraland.us — this is now six rooms Tamara. Origin ≠ Edge ≠ Home. storying.site primary book AI Trust Paradox and davidboje.com/vita:

Chronotopic: Houston oil patch → DataBank, Ashburn AOL → Equinix 1998, Portland timber → AWS Oregon, Phoenix desert → phoenixNAP 2010 $6.3M land buy, Mesa cotton → Google $600M 2023, Santa Teresa border → Oracle $165B 2025
SEAM hidden costs: Houston ERCOT isolation, Loudoun $141 avg homeowner tax increase despite $600M DC revenue (2026), Mesa GPLET $156M over 25yr vs $600M capex, Santa Teresa desalination + 2.45GW fuel cells = water/air tradeoff in desert.
Self-reflexive: You study data centers from inside Doña Ana County, which now hosts the largest AI data center in NM history.

4. Teaching Map — Your Triangle

Las Cruces 32.3127,-106.7780 → Caballo 33.1,-107.3 (60mi N) → Mesa 33.4,-111.6 (320mi W) → Phoenix 33.44,-111.99 (340mi) → Santa Teresa 31.85,-106.68 (40mi S) → back to Las Cruces

All drivable for fieldwork. Mesa + Phoenix can be done in one day from Las Cruces. Santa Teresa is a morning trip for county records.

5. Interview Protocol — Doña Ana County (Project Jupiter)

When did you first hear about Project Jupiter? Who told you — county, Oracle, neighbor?
What was on that 1,400 acres before? Desert, farming, border industrial?
How was $165B IRB explained? What does 2.45GW of fuel cells mean for air/water?
Desalination plant — where does brine go? Who gets water priority?
Who is BorderPlex Digital Assets and Yucca Growth? LLC veil again?
If ChatGPT training moves to Santa Teresa, does Las Cruces feel it in power bills?
Would you line windows with mattresses for Jupiter like Ashburn did?

6. References

Oracle revealed as tenant Project Jupiter — DCD Dec 2024
Doña Ana County approves historic IRB $165B — donaana.gov
Oracle + Bloom Energy 2.45GW fuel cells — oracle.com April 27 2026
Google Mesa $600M — aztechcouncil.org Sept 6 2023, GPLET July 2019, air-cool
AWS Local Zones Phoenix, Dallas, Wavelength Zones Houston/Phoenix/Dallas — aws.amazon.com
AWS Mesa 4 data centers 227k sq ft — BizJournal Mesa planning
phoenixNAP 3402 E University Dr — datacenterjournal.com
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Prepared Aug 2026 Boje — Six data centers case — v06 — storying.site primary + davidboje.com same HostGator Houston origin Ashburn edge + tamaraland.us Porkbun AWS Oregon + quantumstorytelling.org Namecheap Phoenix + Mesa Google + Santa Teresa Oracle $165B Project Jupiter Doña Ana County — Self-reflexive: You live inside the study.