By Diego Mendoza-Moyers, El Paso Matters After a scene that could have been pulled out of the 2025 film “‘Eddington,” the Doña Ana Board of County Commissioners this week advanced a deal with an Austin-based firm that says it plans to invest an almost-inconceivable sum – $165 billion – to build an infrastructure campus that will house data centers in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.  

Much like the movie’s mayor hyped a data center in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, Doña Ana commissioners at a Tuesday meeting touted the investment by BorderPlex Digital Assets that the company says will result in 750 permanent jobs locally and $300 million in direct payments to the county’s coffers. The commission voted 4-1 Tuesday to advance the deal, and commissioners will take a final vote during

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