Data centers and new power in Bernalillo Cty, NM

The median wait for a project still in the interconnection queue in Bernalillo Cty is 4.5 years. Across the US, most large loads are quoted three to seven years depending on the market and whether network upgrades are needed. 8 projects in Bernalillo Cty have reached energization and 25 were withdrawn, so the withdrawal rate here is a better guide to risk than any single quoted timeline.

3.9 GW is currently requested across 21 active interconnection requests, and 454 MW has actually been built. A queued megawatt is a request, not deliverable capacity — most queued projects are never built. For deliverable offtake capacity at a specific substation you need a utility study, not a queue.

This page gives you the power half of that answer: what is queued, what has been energized, how long the wait runs, and which large load interconnection requests are already recorded nearby. The other half — the state policy position, moratoriums and large load tariffs — is on our New Mexico policy page.

The interconnection queue published by the transmission providers serving Bernalillo Cty — PNM — parsed and normalised by Watt Street. Every figure carries the date it was true. Data as of 14 October 2026.