EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- The New Mexico Environmental Law Center and several other parties have filed a lawsuit against the Doña Ana County Board of County Commissioners for what they are calling the board’s "unlawful" actions related to the controversial Project Jupiter data center project that would be built outside of Santa Teresa.

The New Mexico Environmental Law Center is challenging the board’s “unlawful approval of three ordinances related to Project Jupiter.”

The first ordinance authorizes the County to issue $165 billion of industrial revenue bonds to support Project Jupiter.

The second and third ordinances authorize the issuing of New Mexico Local Economic Development Act funding to support the project.

The suit was filed on Oct. 17 in the Third Judicial District Court and al

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