El Paso Data Centers — Community Briefing

An independent, plain-language public briefing on the data centers coming to the El Paso region: how much water and power they need, how much we have, and what a fair city rule would do. Prepared by Celaya Solutions Research LLC.

Live site: once GitHub Pages is enabled (see below), this publishes at https://celaya-solutions.github.io/Draft-Policy/

This is an independent community briefing. It is not an official City of El Paso publication. Every number is sourced. The legal documents are drafts and are not legal advice; consult counsel before any official action. Content is public domain. Corrections welcome.

What's here

• index.html — the full public briefing (water, power, what's being built, the model ordinance, how to take action, the lab). White / navy / sun-gold, El Paso colors, ~8th-grade reading level, English with a Spanish summary, mobile-friendly and printable.
• documents/
  • El_Paso_Data_Center_Ordinance_DRAFT.docx — the full model city ordinance (Articles 1–8).
  • Project_Jupiter_Evidence_Record.docx — fact brief, water-balance math, dispute timeline, and index of 68 public records.
  • El_Paso_Data_Center_Ordinance_CROSSWALK.docx — maps the model ordinance to the City's draft framework.
  • El_Paso_Data_Centers_Public_Explainer.html — a shorter one-page version for handouts.

The numbers, in brief

• El Paso uses ~105 million gallons/day; the regional supply cushion is ~8.7 million gallons/day.
• Combined data-center demand at full build-out is ~1.56 million gallons/day = 17.9% of that cushion.
• El Paso Electric can make ~2,300 MW; record peak is 2,173 MW (a ~127 MW cushion). Two data centers alone want ~250 MW.

Sources are listed on the page and in the Evidence Record.

Publish with GitHub Pages

1. Push this folder to https://github.com/celaya-solutions/Draft-Policy (see below).
2. On GitHub: Settings → Pages → Build and deployment → Source: Deploy from a branch.
3. Branch: main, folder: / (root). Save.
4. Wait ~1 minute. The site appears at https://celaya-solutions.github.io/Draft-Policy/.

The included .nojekyll file tells GitHub Pages to serve the files as-is.

Push it (first time)

From inside this folder:

git remote add origin https://github.com/celaya-solutions/Draft-Policy.git
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main

If the remote already has commits, pull first (git pull origin main --allow-unrelated-histories) or force with care.

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