Oracle Says 2,700 Workers Are Building Its AI Data Center
Oracle published a post on its own site titled "The work came home: How local expertise is helping build AI infrastructure at Project Jupiter", datelined Dona Ana County, New Mexico, September 1, 2026. Everything below comes from it.
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Oracle says thousands of workers are building its AI data center campus in New Mexico.
Oracle published a worker profile from Project Jupiter, its AI data center campus in Dona Ana County, New Mexico.
According to Oracle, more than two thousand seven hundred construction workers were onsite, including nearly seven hundred New Mexico residents.
Oracle says that computing infrastructure must first be built by skilled tradespeople. Pipefitters, welders, plumbers, electricians, and heavy equipment operators.
Oracle says pipefitter Angel Velasquez is seven months into the job after nearly twenty years traveling for work. He now works near his hometown.
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- To date, more than 2,700 constructions workers were working onsite, including nearly 700 New Mexico residents.(Oracle's official announcement, The work came home: How local expertise is helping build AI infrastructure at Project Jupiter, published September 1, 2026)
- Now, Angel is seven months into helping build Project Jupiter, Oracle's AI data center campus in Dona Ana County.(Oracle's official announcement, The work came home: How local expertise is helping build AI infrastructure at Project Jupiter, published September 1, 2026)
- The enormous computing infrastructure that will eventually operate at Project Jupiter first has to become a physical thing through the work of skilled tradespeople: pipefitters, welders, plumbers, electricians, and heavy-equipment operators.(Oracle's official announcement, The work came home: How local expertise is helping build AI infrastructure at Project Jupiter, published September 1, 2026)
- Angel hopes some of that interest will bring younger people into the skilled trades. He enjoys working with people newer to pipefitting, and Project Jupiter, he points out, requires many crafts, not just his own.(Oracle's official announcement, The work came home: How local expertise is helping build AI infrastructure at Project Jupiter, published September 1, 2026)
- For nearly 20 years, Angel Velasquez has gone where the work is. The southern New Mexico pipefitter has worked on refineries, power plants, and other major infrastructure projects, sometimes taking jobs 12 hours from home.(Oracle's official announcement, The work came home: How local expertise is helping build AI infrastructure at Project Jupiter, published September 1, 2026)
- Angel and his crew get started at 6:00 a.m. and work until 4:30 six days a week. But now, when the shift ends, he heads home.(Oracle's official announcement, The work came home: How local expertise is helping build AI infrastructure at Project Jupiter, published September 1, 2026)
- Around town, he has noticed more people shopping in local stores and busier restaurants.(Oracle's official announcement, The work came home: How local expertise is helping build AI infrastructure at Project Jupiter, published September 1, 2026)