New Era Energy & Digital Issues Statement Setting the Record Straight Regarding New Mexico Civil Complaint

New Era Energy & Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAI) (“New Era” or the “Company”), a developer and operator of next-generation digital infrastructure and integrated power assets in the Permian Basin, today issued the following statement responding to the civil complaint (the “Lawsuit”) recently filed by the State of New Mexico Attorney General and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division:

“The New Mexico Lawsuit is a baseless and uninformed attack on our Company and on our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, E. Will Gray II. We will aggressively defend New Era and its leadership in Court against these false allegations.

We urge our investors and other stakeholders to take note of the following:

• We believe the allegations in the Lawsuit do not relate to any assets that would have a meaningful impact on our near-term business or operations. As announced on December 23, 2025 we entered into a binding agreement to acquire Sharon AI’s 50% ownership interest in Texas Critical Data Centers LLC (“TCDC”), our flagship 1+ gigawatt hyperscale data center development located in Ector County outside Odessa, Texas. We are focused on bringing TCDC under a single ownership structure and entering the next phase of development of this Texas-based facility. Our focus is on our digital infrastructure business and driving value for our investors.

• In particular, the 87 wells referenced in the Lawsuit are immaterial to our current business. These wells no longer align with the Company’s business model, and we were already in the process of divesting them, in line with our focus on our digital infrastructure business.

• We believe the Lawsuit contains myriad factual errors and misstatements. As the legal process plays out, we look forward to refuting the Lawsuit’s allegations in further detail. For now, we want to make crystal clear that we do not intend to allow any misrepresentations to stand unaddressed.

• The Attorney General and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division made no attempt to contact us. Had the plaintiffs reached out to us, we would have answered their questions. They provided us with no opportunity to refute what we believe are inaccuracies and falsehoods contained in the Lawsuit.

• Neither New Era, nor Chairman and CEO Will Gray, have ever been affiliated with Acacia Operating Company, LLC or Acacia Resources, LLC, nor did New Era or Will Gray scheme to defraud the State. This fact alone renders a large part of the Lawsuit’s theory about supposed “schemes” involving New Era and Will Gray meaningless.

New Era has contributed meaningfully as a corporate citizen in the state of New Mexico. New Era, through its operating entity Solis Partners, has already spent more than $10 million on New Mexico state taxes and with local businesses through operations since the Company’s inception. Just last month, we entered into a land option purchase agreement for approximately 3,500 acres in Lea County, New Mexico, intended for the development of a large-scale seven-gigawatt hyperscale AI data center campus.