AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoEnergy & Data Centers: Sen. Martin Heinrich’s permitting bill cleared a 73–25 Senate procedural vote, advancing a proposal to speed energy-project approvals and make data centers pay for grid upgrades. New Mexico’s Project Jupiter remains delayed: Oracle’s AI campus needs a pipeline whose state-land rights-of-way have been denied, pushing its target service date to February 2027 and complicating plans to use Bloom Energy fuel cells. Tech Accountability: A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in a privacy case, a major state-level challenge to the social media company. Paleontology: Fossils from a 74-million-year-old forest near Truth or Consequences suggest dinosaurs ate larger fruits than scientists had thought, and may have helped spread plant seeds. Wildlife Science: New Mexico’s first wildlife conference brought researchers and practitioners together to discuss conservation, PFAS contamination and rising screwworm cases. Tech Economy: Albuquerque-founded cardiac-care startup Karoo Health is moving to Denver, with its CEO citing difficulty attracting and retaining talent in New Mexico.
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