Angelica Rubio
New Mexico state representative for Las Cruces and moratorium bill sponsor.
Angelica Rubio, New Mexico state representative for Las Cruces, briefed a legislative committee on 12 August 2026 on a proposed statewide data-centre moratorium that still has no bill text.
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Why did Angelica Rubio link the moratorium push to a county lawsuit?
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Co-briefed the interim committee alongside Cadena
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: New Mexico moratorium has no bill textBackground
Rubio has sat for Las Cruces in the New Mexico House since 2017, representing District 35 as a Democrat, and was re-elected in November 2024.
On 12 August 2026, Rubio and fellow Representative Micaela Lara Cadena briefed a legislative committee on a proposed statewide data-centre moratorium, still without formal bill text ahead of the January 2027 session.
Rubio has linked the moratorium push to ongoing lawsuits alleging Doña Ana County violated the state's Open Meetings Act when it approved the Project Jupiter data-centre campus and its $165bn in industrial revenue bonds, casting the moratorium as a response to a specific local approval process rather than to data centres in general.