Bureau of Measurement Project Jupiter Up Uranus

The Model BS-1 “Uranus” is a precision field polygraph wired to the public record of Project Jupiter — the $165,000,000,000 Oracle / OpenAI / STACK data-center campus in Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County. The electrodes are clipped to documents, not to people. The documents have been sweating anyway.

Operating manual

How to read the instrument

The needle reports the documented gap between what was said about Project Jupiter and what the enforceable record actually contains — announced numbers vs. approved numbers, promises vs. permit conditions, press releases vs. site conditions. It is calibrated in kilo-BS (kBS), the standard field unit.

Every deflection below is footnoted to a published source or public record. The needle position is the Bureau's editorial opinion; the receipts are not. Subjects whose documented actions consist of asking for evidence, voting no, investigating fraud, or saying “no” to a pipeline are used as the control group — their needles rest quietly, which is how we know the machine works.

AUX Auxiliary dials
$5B → $165B
Announced size (Feb 2025) → approved bond (Sept 2025). ×33 in seven months. [Source NM]
1,000 → 750
Jobs announced → full-time jobs actually committed (+50 part-time). [El Paso Matters]
4,500+
Opposing comments on the gas-turbine permits — which were then withdrawn. [New Energy Economy]
2,275
Bloom fuel cells in the replacement permit application (YGI, NMED 10883). [NMED]
2
Lawsuits seeking court review of the county's approval. [ABQ Journal]
OVERDUE (county's word)
Status of the developers' required job reports. [ABQ Journal]
REC Calibration ledger — the documented record

Each event below is a real, sourced entry in the Project Jupiter paper trail. Press TEST to send it through the machine.

  1. February 2025

    The Governor's office announces a “$5 billion” project with “1,000 jobs”

    Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's office unveils Project Jupiter as a $5 billion partnership with BorderPlex Digital Assets. Source NM

    DEFLECTION +8.9
  2. Sept 19, 2025

    County approves a $165,000,000,000 bond — 4 to 1 — after a “raucous, hourslong” meeting

    The same project is now 33 times larger. Doña Ana County commissioners approve the largest industrial revenue bond in state history. Commitments on paper: 750 full-time jobs, 50 part-time, 2,500 construction. El Paso Matters KRWG

    DEFLECTION +9.4
  3. Fall 2025

    Site condition: earthmovers first, permits later

    Construction begins within weeks of the vote — “heavy equipment moving massive amounts of earth” across several hundred acres, visible from Highway 9 — while the air permits that would govern the campus's own power plant are still undecided. Source NM

    DEFLECTION +8.6
  4. Oct–Dec 2025

    Two lawsuits allege the approval broke state law

    Residents file two suits seeking court review, alleging commissioners green-lit a project with an incomplete application. ABQ Journal Haussamen

    DEFLECTION +7.8
  5. Dec 19, 2025

    NMED stamps the air applications “incomplete”

    The state's own reviewers rule the microgrid air-quality applications incomplete — for a campus already under construction. Source NM

    DEFLECTION +8.2
  6. Feb–Spring 2026

    Action rescinded: the gas-turbine permits are withdrawn, then reincarnated

    After 4,500+ opposing comments, Acoma LLC withdraws turbine applications 10732 and 10734 — and the project returns under a new name (Yucca Growth Infrastructure) with a new plan: 2,275 Bloom Energy fuel cells, application 10883. Same campus, new letterhead. New Energy Economy Action Network

    DEFLECTION +8.8
  7. April 7, 2026

    The water number annoys everyone — including the project's friends

    A Project Jupiter water-use claim “rankles opponents and supporters” alike. When your allies flinch at your math, the needle moves on its own. Haussamen

    DEFLECTION +8.4
  8. April 14, 2026

    The county votes to check whether the project told it the truth

    Commissioners adopt a resolution directing the county manager and two commissioners to “verify the accuracy of recent public statements” by the developers and determine “whether any project details differ from those originally presented to the Board.” The Bureau notes this is our exact job description, adopted as county policy, seven months after the vote. KRWG County

    DEFLECTION +7.5
  9. June–July 2026

    The developers miss their own job-report deadlines

    Doña Ana County says Project Jupiter's developers blew through required job-reporting deadlines. The first homework assignment of the largest bond in state history: late. ABQ Journal

    DEFLECTION +9.1
  10. July 2026

    The fake-fan-mail incident

    Residents of three cities say their names were used without permission on letters urging NMED to approve the air permit, after canvassers in Project Jupiter T-shirts came to their doors; public officials in Albuquerque and Taos report being impersonated in supportive comments. NMED confirms fraudulent comments were submitted, adds email verification to its portal, and the state Department of Justice opens an investigation. The machine wishes to stress it did not write any of the letters. Organ Mtn News KRQE KRWG

    DEFLECTION +10.0 (PIN BENT)
  11. July 16, 2026

    Action blocked: the State Land Office says no to the pipeline

    Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard blocks a Project Jupiter–related pipeline from crossing state trust land. The first hard “no” the project has heard from a statewide office; the needle briefly visited the green zone and asked what it was. Source NM

    DEFLECTION −6.0 (CONTROL EVENT)
  12. Aug 11, 2026

    Hundreds pack the senators' listening session; a moratorium is on the table

    Four Doña Ana County state senators host a town hall at NMSU and back a data-center moratorium. The formal NMED hearing on air permit 10883 follows on Sept 14, 2026 — the enforceable part. Bring the field companion. ABQ Journal

    DEFLECTION −5.2 (CONTROL EVENT)
CH·A Subjects tested — needles in the red

Every “documented touch” below is sourced. The kBS reading is the Bureau's satirical editorial opinion of the gap between each subject's public posture and the enforceable record — it is not a factual claim that anyone lied, and the machine is, legally speaking, a cartoon.

CH·B Control group — needles resting (instrument verified functional)
SRC Source check — read the record yourself
Certificate of satire. Project Up Uranus is political satire and commentary on matters of public concern, in the tradition of the editorial cartoon. The polygraph is fictional; polygraphs don't detect lies even when they're real, which makes ours exactly as scientific as some of the claims it measures. Needle positions, kBS readings, deflections, and operator's notes are opinion and parody — not assertions of fact about any person's honesty. What is not parody: every dated event and “documented touch” links to a published news report or public record, allegations are labeled as allegations, and lawsuits are described as pending claims, not findings. Disclosure: the operator of this site is a petitioner in one of the Project Jupiter court cases. For exactly that reason, this satire page says nothing about the courtroom — the litigation is reported separately, dryly, and without needles at Special Investigations, transcribed from the public court registers. Spot an error in a receipt? The sources are one tap away — check us, then check them. For the serious toolkit, use the Project Jupiter field companion and the regional data-center watch.