甲骨文公司正在重新提出请求，要求联邦监管机构尽快批准其在新墨西哥州大型数据中心项目所需的天然气管道。
Corp. is renewing its request that federal regulators approve a natural gas pipeline needed to power its massive data center project in New Mexico as quickly as possible.
“时间仍然至关重要，”甲骨文政府事务高级副总裁乔什·皮特科克周二在写给联邦能源监管委员会的信中表示。对能源转移LP子公司运营的管道项目的联邦能源监管委员会批准进一步延迟 “威胁着推迟木星项目的运营及其带来的就业、经济活动和社区效益”。联邦能源监管委员会于9月4日对该17.8英里天然气管道的环境评估，此前已因地方监管机构的反对而推迟，在评议期间遭到倡导团体的反驳。
“Time remains of the essence,” Josh Pitcock, senior vice president of government affairs at Oracle, said in a letter Tuesday to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Further delay to FERC’s pending approval of the pipeline project to be operated by a subsidiary of Energy Transfer LP “threatens to delay Project Jupiter’s operations and the resulting jobs, economic activity, and community benefits.”FERC’s Sept. 4 environmental assessment of the 17.8-mile gas pipeline, which has already been delayed following opposition from local regulators, elicited pushback during the comment period from advocacy groups.
该州总检察长表示，该评估应同时考虑数据中心和管道的影响。新墨西哥州总检察长劳尔·托雷斯本月早些时候表示，联邦能源监管委员会必须要么修订初步评估，要么发布完整的环境影响声明。
The state’s attorney general said the assessment should account for the impact of both the data center and the pipeline. FERC must either revise the initial assessment or issue a full environmental impact statement, New Mexico’s Attorney General Raúl Torrez said earlier this month.
输送约每日4亿立方英尺天然气以供能源公司布隆能源采购的燃料电池为木星项目提供动力的绿色辣椒管道，已被推迟至2027年2月。这远超之前计划的8月15日投入使用日期。该延迟是由新墨西哥州官员导致的，他们否决了该管道穿越州属土地的原始路线，迫使能源转移公司将管道改道至联邦土地。
The Green Chile pipeline, which will transport about 400 million cubic feet per day of natural gas to fuel cells procured by Bloom Energy to power Project Jupiter, has already been delayed to February 2027. That’s well past an earlier targeted in-service date of Aug. 15. The delay, prompted by New Mexico state officials who rejected the pipeline’s original route through state lands, caused Energy Transfer to reroute the pipeline across federal lands.
这些延迟促使甲骨文考虑通过卡车向布隆能源的发电基础设施运输天然气，这是一种它在犹他州和得克萨斯州其他较小项目中曾使用过的新策略，彭博社曾有此报道。但这种应急措施可能只能帮助木星项目完成初步调试工作，而无法满足其全功率需求的 ramp-up。
The delays have prompted Oracle to consider transporting gas to Bloom’s power generation infrastructure by truck, a novel strategy it has used in other, smaller projects in Utah and Texas, Bloomberg has reported. But that stopgap is likely only capable of helping Project Jupiter complete initial commissioning work, rather than ramping up to its full power requirements.