Oracle already uses truck deliveries at data centers in Utah and Texas. The approach kept a site outside Salt Lake City moving forward for more than a year while it awaited a pipeline, but trucked gas costs roughly four times as much as pipeline deliveries.
Project Jupiter has faced a six month delay to a key gas pipeline, and its $18 billion in construction debt was recently quoted around 84 cents on the dollar. Oracle sent the developer, a Blue Owl unit, a force majeure notice seeking to defer payments if the campus misses its planned 2028 opening, rather than withdraw as tenant. Oracle said, “Project Jupiter remains on our planned schedule.”