Site Layer 1 Data Center Project (near Playas, Grant County, New Mexico)

Name: Site Layer 1 Data Center Project (near Playas, Grant County, New Mexico)
Address: US

Announced

United States · 1 project · Last reported 2026-10-07

Summary

Site Layer 1, LLC's initial NSR air-quality construction permit application to the New Mexico Environment Department, under a cover letter of 7 October 2026 and listed by NMED as the 'Initial Construction Permit Application' for 'Site Layer I, LLC – Site Layer I data center' (Grant County), is titled 'Site Layer 1 Data Center Project' and states that 'Site Layer 1, LLC (Site Layer 1) is proposing to construct a data center powered by a natural gas–fired electrical power generation development (the “Project”), on private land in Hidalgo and Grant Counties, New Mexico', with an anticipated data-center size of approximately 800 MW and about 300 MW of on-site generation from 32 Wärtsilä 20V34SG gas engines. The facility is 'Not Constructed'; construction is targeted for Q1 2027 to Q3 2028 and start-up for Q4 2028. This records the project as announced on 7 October 2026. The permit is pending, so neither consent nor works are asserted; the 800 MW and 300 MW figures and the dates are applicant targets. evidence

Site Layer 1, LLC (applicant), prepared by SWCA Environmental Consultants; published by the New Mexico Environment Department · published 2026-10-07

Location

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Projects (1)

Site Layer 1 Data Center Project — proposed data centre of about 800 MW with 300 MW on-site gas-engine generation

Announced last observed as of 2026-10-07 · Project announcement

NMED's consolidated public-notices page lists, under Grant County, 'Site Layer I, LLC – Site Layer I data center' with 'Public Notice – Air Quality Bureau' and a link to the 'Initial Construction Permit Application' (the application captured as us-co-wy-mt-nm-p5-nmed-site-layer-1-nsr-application-20261007). No permit decision, hearing or draft permit is listed for it. evidence

New Mexico Environment Department · publication date not stated

Companies

Owner: Site Layer 1, LLC (intended) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

Site Layer 1, LLC: Initial NSR air-quality construction permit application for the Site Layer 1 Data Center Project, Grant County, New Mexico (cover letter 7 October 2026; posted by NMED Air Quality Bureau) evidence row
Site Layer 1, LLC (applicant), prepared by SWCA Environmental Consultants; published by the New Mexico Environment Department · published 2026-10-07 · Regulatory filing

Locator

Project locator · Official source · regulatory_filing_facility_coordinate evidence

Source checks

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No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verification

Status age at review: 20 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 31.98057, -108.51138
Geometry licence: public-record-source-terms
Use scope: Project locator
Scope class: regulatory_filing_facility_coordinate
Authority: Official source
Source entity: Campus
Method: applicant_stated_facility_coordinate_in_state_air_permit_application
Derivation: direct_geometry
Precision scope: Facility location given in Section 1-D of the application (latitude 31.980569, longitude -108.511384, NAD 83; UTM zone 12 735,145 E, 3,540,987 N; Grant County; 4.9 miles north-east of Playas). It marks the proposed gas-engine power plant of the Project, 44.7 m north of the midpoint of the modeled 32-engine stack row; the preliminary layout draws the four data-centre buildings beside the engine hall but gives them no coordinates. It is not a surveyed building, parcel or boundary, and the wider Project extends across 7,214.4 acres of generation project area and into Hidalgo County.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The applicant states the coordinate to six decimal places and UTM values to the nearest 10 m without a survey accuracy; it locates the planned engine plant, while the planned data-centre buildings sit beside it at undisclosed positions on a much larger private project area.
Geometry evidence: 87950471

A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.

Evidence

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Evidence for Site Layer 1 Data Center Project (near Playas, Grant County, New Mexico)
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
New Mexico Environment Department: Public Notices page (Grant County: Site Layer I, LLC – Site Layer I data center) Archived copy	New Mexico Environment Department Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-27	public-record-source-terms	New Mexico Environment Department	`dd9c27cd7ad2b4d62646ed6c1fd7b75d05c124498d820ae365c8cea2efeab77c` Retained source material; see source provenance
Site Layer 1, LLC: Initial NSR air-quality construction permit application for the Site Layer 1 Data Center Project, Grant County, New Mexico (cover letter 7 October 2026; posted by NMED Air Quality Bureau) Archived copy	Site Layer 1, LLC (applicant), prepared by SWCA Environmental Consultants; published by the New Mexico Environment Department Regulatory filing	Project announcement, Geometry, Owner claim	2026-10-07	2026-10-27	public-record-source-terms	Site Layer 1, LLC; New Mexico Environment Department Air Quality Bureau	`e4c576f192065dc568f3343370c4634db5ddd5f92088c42cdfd3a6ef245a65d7` Retained source material; see source provenance

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). Site Layer 1 Data Center Project (near Playas, Grant County, New Mexico) [site vcc-site-d6ba622d89bc8c560c44]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-d6ba622d89bc8c560c44/

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