--- title: "TechCrunch — Oracle sends a force majeure notice on Project Jupiter" url: https://stacklist.com/card/f1be9b2a-9d5e-42f5-8706-7a3ca01d5dc1 source_url: "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/oracle-sends-force-majeure-notice-on-its-new-mexico-stargate-data-center/" stack: https://stacklist.com/c/finance/stack/cd56e1a1-45bb-4978-945b-4a9e71b13b5f summary: "Oracle sends a force majeure notice regarding Project Jupiter, its new data center facility in New Mexico. This indicates potential delays or complications in the project's development and deployment timeline." tags: "oracle, data-center, force-majeure, project-jupiter, infrastructure, tech-news" key_entities: "Oracle (organization), Project Jupiter (concept), New Mexico (location), TechCrunch (organization), force majeure (concept)" classification: "news" content_hash: "sha256:aaa5b4383c6a4126433bf267b84852ed5cb623a1221e6e9ea7e0aa86985b043f" acp_version: "0.2" token_counts_approximate: 5127 visibility: public agent_accessible: true status: "final" --- # TechCrunch — Oracle sends a force majeure notice on Project Jupiter –:–:–:– Last day to demo your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt ticket savings of up to $200 + 50% off a second ends Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. REGISTER HERE. Close
Image Credits: Kim Kulish/Corbis / Getty Images AI Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center Aditya Mehta 11:11 AM PDT · September 24, 2026 Oracle has sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a Stargate data center campus in New Mexico, Bloomberg first reported Thursday. Force majeure clauses, common in energy and commodities contracts, excuse a party from contractual obligations when events outside its control get in the way. Oracle is not seeking to exit as the campus’s main tenant, according to Bloomberg’s sources. Instead, the notice would allow the company to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online. The notice also comes as AI data center construction faces growing scrutiny nationally, and as developers take on steep costs to build capacity for customers like OpenAI. Oracle maintains that it does not expect a delay. “Project Jupiter remains on our planned schedule,” Oracle said in a statement to CNBC . “We are fully committed to New Mexico and confident in our path forward.” Blue Owl Capital, whose unit received the notice, said in its own statement to CNBC that “this notice does not change the financial commitments to this multi-year project.” Neither Oracle nor Blue Owl immediately responded to TechCrunch’s requests for comment. Still, the notice follows a string of setbacks at the site, many of them tied to its energy supply. The campus, designed to handle 2.45 gigawatts, is meant to run on gas-powered fuel cells from Bloom Energy, which makes a reliable gas supply central to its timeline. An Energy Transfer pipeline intended to deliver gas to the site has also been delayed nearly six months, to February 1, 2027, after regulators repeatedly denied permits for the line. In August, Bloomberg reported that the pipeline’s route had been changed following those rejections. A separate air-quality permit for the fuel cell system that would power the campus is also pending. The state’s environment department faces a November 23 deadline to decide. Project Jupiter is one of the flagship sites of Stargate, the AI infrastructure initiative Oracle, OpenAI, and SoftBank announced with President Donald Trump early in his second term. The campus has drawn opposition from residents and environmental groups and has become a political flashpoint ahead of the midterm elections. Oracle has responded with a public outreach campaign in the state aimed at winning over the project’s critics, according to Bloomberg. Topics AI , data centers , oracle , stargate When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission . This doesn’t affect our editorial independence. Aditya Mehta Editorial Fellow Aditya Mehta is a reporter at TechCrunch covering AI. He’s supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism and attended UC Berkeley. You can contact from Aditya by emailing aditya.mehta@techcrunch.com or via encrypted message at adymehta.74 on Signal. View Bio October 13 – 15 San Francisco Get 50% off a second pass The Disrupt experience is meant to be shared. Get your pass and bring a colleague, partner, or peer at 50% off. Cover more ground by making connections, building momentum, and discovering what’s next in the startup ecosystem. BOOK NOW Most Popular Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers Kirsten Korosec Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test Tim Fernholz Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center Aditya Mehta Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent Lucas Ropek Vogue sent robots down the runway at Vogue World, and people were not impressed Dominic-Madori Davis Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big Julie Bort PitPro’s first tire-changing robot goes live in Canada Sean O'Kane Loading the next article Error loading the next article