Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC-YGI Microgrid Air Quality Construction Permit Application

Comment From: Sita Stanfield

7/03/26 @ 12:56 PM

Allowing project Jupiter to be built without fully recognizing the implications of a fuel cell center at this scale in a community that will be impacted by it's air pollutants is irresponsible and dangerous. Considering the air quality concerns and i...↓

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Comment From: Kristyn Etheridge

7/03/26 @ 12:56 PM

The proposed design has an individual exhaust stack on each fuel cell, of which there will be 2,275. It would be inefficient to place monitors and controls on each individual stack and there are NO proposed pollution controls on any of these stacks. ...↓How, then, will this project show evidence of their compliance with emissions limit requirements under Title V? Has there been or will there ever be upstream fuel testing of methane gas to anticipate the composition of these fuel cells' emissions? How exactly will NMED enforce emissions standards without direct, long-term, continuous monitoring? Or isolate their deleterious impact on air quality without an accurate assessment of localized pollution? A fuel cell can continue to generate electricity or maintain operating temperatures while experiencing catalyst degradation which causes a massive spike in the release of carbon monoxide or Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). This project would need to centralize the 2,275 individual stack emissions into an exponentially smaller number of exhaust systems so that Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) installed on these central exhaust systems can provide real-time, accurate data about operational compliance. As it is, this design plan completely fails to provide monitoring conditions that are "practically enforceable" under 20.2.70.302.B NMAC. A proposal, such as this one, that relies on computer simulation modeling instead of actual, measured air pollution at scale is invalid, untrustworthy, and far from what residents of Doña Ana County and New Mexico deserve. What data was used to train these models? When and where was this data collected? What proportion of those involved in the development of this model have, at any time, received money from the corporations involved? How much? If NMED allows group testing for this project, 99% of the exhaust stacks at this facility will never be physically tested during the entire life of the Title V permit. This creates an unmonitored loophole that violates the Clean Air Act's mandate for continuous compliance. We know the pollution approximations provided are based on an extremely lazy testing methodology and while we were not told whether these 4 tests were even done on-site or during peak temperatures, we can safely assume the applicants cut corners here as well in an attempt to fast track this approval. As I write this, Project Jupiter is draining an undisclosed amount of water from our shared aquifer on a daily basis. Given the statistical invalidity of their pollution estimates, approving this air permit under any circumstance would be to allow this project to introduce unmitigated and undisclosed hazards into our air without consequence. Children attending Santa Teresa Elementary School will sit innocently, every day, LESS THAN ONE MILE from this pollution. Three other schools, an elder care center, and three public parks sit within around 4 miles of this project. Deny this air permit. Gambling with the fragile health of our children and elders would be a complete defilment of the authority vested in you.

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Comment From: Ally Pavelec

7/03/26 @ 12:55 PM

I have now lived in most of the areas that would be affected by this data center. I've lived in El Paso, Las Cruces, Santa Fe currently and I will be moving to Albuquerque. This data center is terrible and against humanity for many reasons. All these...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 12:55 PM

Don't waste all that water and kill the planet. We don't need data centers so that people use AI for stupid stuff.

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Comment From: Alexandra NA

7/03/26 @ 12:55 PM

Shame on anyone who has anything to do with this AI center. NM is already suffering from water pass and extreme fire risks. This AI center will take water from communities and compromise their safety in the case of a wildfire. Our air quality will wo...↓

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Comment From: Kaitlyn Torres

7/03/26 @ 12:55 PM

No data centers in New Mexico! You will do nothing but pollute our air and take what limited resources we already have! NO TO PROJECT JUPITER AND NO TO DATA CENTERS IN NEW MEXICO. The air quality permit application should be denied! Stop poisoning th...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 12:54 PM

I am a resident of Albuqu and am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I live here with many generations of my family and this is our home. I want to continue raising my children here knowing they have a safe and secu...↓

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Comment From: Brennan Davis

7/03/26 @ 12:53 PM

I grew up in Las Cruces, and have lived in New Mexico all of my life. I implore our state regulators to do just that - regulate. Our public lands belong to us. Our water, our air, our soundscapes, our landscapes - they belong to us. New Mexico has so...↓

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Comment From: Josephine Arguello

7/03/26 @ 12:52 PM

I live in Southern Doña Ana County and under no circumstances do I want experimental technology deployed at an unprecedented scale in my backyard. Yucca Growth Infrastructure's gas-powered fuel cell plant is 1,000 times larger than Bloom Energy's big...↓

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Comment From: Angel Melchor

7/03/26 @ 12:51 PM

I am a resident of Albuquerque and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I live here with many generations of my family and this is our home. I want to continue raising my children here knowing they have a safe a...↓nd secure future. That future is under threat with this proposed air quality permit. A change to fuel cells has minimal impacts on the suffering we will endure as a result of the gas plant's air pollution. To add 10 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution and a vague estimate of toxic emissions to our active and long-time nonattainment zone would be nothing short of blatant environmental racism. Their metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and they have received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. We are already breathing some of the most compromised air in the country. It is unacceptable to invite a new source of hyperscale air pollution into our communities. The carbon dioxide pollution alone will heat our atmosphere at a much faster pace and promote the formation of even more ground-level ozone. Last summer, my 7 year old suffered a grand mal seizure while on the playground at school because the extreme heat led to electrolyte imbalances. My brother works outside everyday without shade or rest breaks and has nowhere to keep his insulin cool. I can barely pay my electricity bills in the summer as it is. We cannot afford more intense heat. The other toxic air pollutants are extremely dangerous–many of them at very low levels. How am I supposed to send my kids to school knowing what they are breathing in? Knowing it can cause permanent brain damage or breathing complications before they have had a chance to grow up.

New Mexico Environment Department should give the public an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazardous waste. Approving this permit would be government-sponsored environmental racism directed at residents of Doña Ana County.
If the permit is not denied outright, a public hearing needs to be held in Santa Teresa, in both English and Spanish, with an option to participate virtually.

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Comment From: Aaron Kelts

7/03/26 @ 12:51 PM

The building of the Project Jupiter data center in southern New Mexico greatly concerns me. I don't understand why these data centers that use water for cooling are being built where water is scarce and temperatures are hot. It seems inefficient to s...↓

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Comment From: Kelsey Erickson

7/03/26 @ 12:50 PM

I strongly urge you to deny this air quality permit to Yucca Growth Infrastructure. Their proposed Project Jupiter boasts profits only for tech companies, it serves no long-term benefits to the residents of Doña Ana County nor any other New Mexico re...↓

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Comment From: Kristen Dorman

7/03/26 @ 12:50 PM

To the New Mexico Environment Department: I urge you to DENY the air permit for Project Jupiter's proposed fuel cell microgrid. Oracle frames this as an environmental improvement, but the data reveals this as a greenwashed gamble that remains equally...↓

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Comment From: Zoe Yechayau Sharabi

7/03/26 @ 12:48 PM

We don't want or need this data center here. This will harm the future of of New Mexico and its people not old through losing the land but also with the lack of water we already have.

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Comment From: Analisa Herring

7/03/26 @ 12:47 PM

Please do not build this Atrocity. People over profit.

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Comment From: Anthony Korahais

7/03/26 @ 12:46 PM

New Mexicans don't want this. Seven out of 10 of New Mexicans are against this. Stop Project Jupiter.

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Comment From: Ashley Vallo

7/03/26 @ 12:45 PM

New Mexico has a history of unnecessary extraction and mistreatment of its people. Along with the rising heat every year, a data center is the least of everyone's priorities right now.

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Comment From: Mariah Hothan

7/03/26 @ 12:44 PM

Please deny this data centers new air quality permit. Its just a whitewashed attempt to destroy our state. They see us as poor and desperate, that's why their lies are all centered around "bettering the community". We don't need their help, if we rea...↓lly want to be better we need to say no to Project Jupiter. Have you seen Memphis lately thanks to Musk's data center. Its killed that city just like every data center does. Everywhere they succeed the people end up losing and if we keep approving this nonsense then humanity as a whole will reap what we've sown when we end up in a tech wasteland with no natural beauty or natural resources. Please deny this air quality permit- for the sake of the people that live here, because i guarantee the people benefitting financially off of Project Jupiter are not going to be in NM and probably not even in the US. Its been proven over and again that the promised benefits are never close to being realized and all that people are left with is anger and regret. Deny this permit, please. The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit, so that community members can participate equitably. The air quality permit application should be rejected due to Bloom Energy's history of illegally dumping hazardous waste. If the permit is not rejected, a public hearing must be held in Santa Teresa , in both English and Spanish, with the option to participate online. Approving this permit would be government-backed environmental racism , because the people of Doña Ana County already suffer too much from environmental pollution. For years, Doña Ana County has been called a 'non-compliance' zone—this means that our air quality does not meet federal government rules.
The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazardous waste. Approving this permit would be government-sponsored environmental racism directed at residents of Doña Ana County.
If the permit is not denied outright, a public hearing needs to be held in Santa Teresa, in both English and Spanish, with an option to participate virtually.

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Comment From: Teresa Valenzuela

7/03/26 @ 12:44 PM

The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably. Approving this permit would be government-sponsored environmental racism as residents of Doña Ana County ...↓

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Comment From: Catherine Mathews

7/03/26 @ 12:43 PM

I object to issuing a permit for Project Jupiter because of the unproven claims that air quality in our region will not be impacted. The air quality in our region is already low and Project Jupiter will not move it in to an improved condition. The pu...↓

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Comment From: James Garcia

7/03/26 @ 12:42 PM

How the fuck are new Mexicans supposed to be new Mexicans without green chile? The data center intends to extract our already minimal water from the farmlands that make our food. The water they would release would contaminate communities and wildlife...↓

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Comment From: Sandy Barraza Delgado

7/03/26 @ 12:42 PM

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Comment From: Eric Bruce

7/03/26 @ 12:33 PM

4000 construction jobs and 1600 jobs later does not justify the water useage and power draw for this facility. Build it where the water is plentiful and the power grid can handle the load.

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Comment From: Haidee Reyes

7/03/26 @ 12:24 PM

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Comment From: Ruthie Bailon

7/03/26 @ 12:22 PM

I am writing to express my support for Project Jupiter, which I believe offers significant benefits for our community.

Project Jupiter is poised to bring substantial economic growth to Dona Ana County. It is anticipated to create 4,000 construction...↓

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Comment From: Edgar Barraza

7/03/26 @ 12:22 PM

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Comment From: Terry Reusser

7/03/26 @ 12:21 PM

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Comment From: Larry Madl

7/03/26 @ 12:21 PM

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Comment From: Julie Flores

7/03/26 @ 12:20 PM

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7/03/26 @ 12:20 PM

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7/03/26 @ 12:20 PM

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7/03/26 @ 12:19 PM

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7/03/26 @ 12:19 PM

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7/03/26 @ 12:18 PM

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7/03/26 @ 12:18 PM

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7/03/26 @ 12:18 PM

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Comment From: Trinity Estrada

7/03/26 @ 12:18 PM

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Comment From: Marcus Sanchez

7/03/26 @ 12:17 PM

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7/03/26 @ 12:17 PM

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7/03/26 @ 12:17 PM

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7/03/26 @ 12:17 PM

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7/03/26 @ 12:17 PM

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Comment From: Ken Maynard

7/03/26 @ 12:16 PM

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Comment From: Silvya Olguin

7/03/26 @ 12:16 PM

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Comment From: Isaac Garcia

7/03/26 @ 12:16 PM

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Comment From: Jordan Heberlin

7/03/26 @ 12:15 PM

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Comment From: Meredith Keeton

7/03/26 @ 12:10 PM

I am a native and lifelong resident of southeast New Mexico, an underserved region typified by poverty with a history of government involvement only to build nuclear weapons that left a legacy of destruction and death. The message to people, especial...↓

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Comment From: Ethan Campbell

7/03/26 @ 12:03 PM

To the New Mexico Environment Department:
My name is Ethan Campbell. I am a lifelong resident of Dona Ana County, New Mexico, and I am submitting this comment in formal opposition to the Yucca Growth Infrastructure YGI Microgrid Air Quality Construct...↓ion Permit Application.
I want to be clear about who I am and where I stand. I contacted my county commissioners before the vote on the $165 billion in industrial revenue bonds for Project Jupiter last September. I made my opposition known. They approved it anyway, without a public vote, in a process that two separate lawsuits now allege violated state law, including the New Mexico Open Meetings Act. A judge has already ruled that the petitioners challenging that approval may be entitled to relief. My voice was not heard then. I am submitting this comment to make sure it is on the record now.
I oppose the issuance of this air quality permit for the following reasons:
The emissions figures in this application are not a minor local concern. Public notices estimate the facility's air pollution at 10.1 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, which is equivalent to 75% of the entire state's electric carbon emissions and more than Albuquerque and Las Cruces combined. That is not a data center. That is a major industrial emitter, and it is being proposed for a community that never asked for it and never voted on it. ABQ Journal
The EPA designated an area near Sunland Park as a marginal nonattainment area due to ozone pollution that already exceeds allowable federal standards. This permit would add an enormous new emissions source to a region already struggling to meet air quality benchmarks. The people breathing that air are my neighbors. Santa Fe New Mexican
I do not believe the money Oracle, OpenAI, and STACK Infrastructure will generate from this project will stay in Dona Ana County. The $165 billion in industrial revenue bonds approved for this project includes a decades-long property tax exemption — meaning the wealth created here leaves, and the community that absorbs the environmental cost receives almost nothing in return. I did not ask for my air, my water, my energy grid, or my land to be used to generate profits for corporations headquartered far from here. Santa Fe New Mexican
I am also writing to note that I am aware that residents in Las Cruces, Albuquerque, and Rio Rancho have recently come forward stating that identical form letters supporting this permit were submitted to this Department under their names without their knowledge or consent, by canvassers working on behalf of Project Jupiter. I want this Department to know that this comment is mine. I wrote it. I am submitting it. My opposition to this project is genuine and longstanding.
I am asking the New Mexico Environment Department to deny this permit application and to hold a full public hearing in Santa Teresa, in the community that will actually live with this decision, before any further action is taken.
Sincerely,
Ethan Campbell
Dona Ana County, New Mexico

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Comment From: Julian Moreno

7/03/26 @ 12:02 PM

No project Jupiter no air quality permit

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Comment From: Zwe Lin

7/03/26 @ 12:00 PM

This will pollute the already limited water supply and it will use up to 1 million gallons of water .
And I will not allow this data center to hurt our already suffering planet.

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Comment From: David Mess

7/03/26 @ 11:59 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:57 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:56 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:56 AM

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Comment From: Michelle Miller

7/03/26 @ 11:54 AM

I adamantly oppose this permit. This project will increase pollution, drain the water table, and provide minimal job growth for the local community. A desert habitat is not the place to build this kind of water hog.

Just review the experiences of ...↓

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Comment From: Melanie Gray

7/03/26 @ 11:52 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:51 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:51 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:50 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:49 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:49 AM

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Comment From: Daizon Green

7/03/26 @ 11:49 AM

Just wanted say will gave a lot details about y'all program I'm glad to support

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7/03/26 @ 11:49 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:49 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:49 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:49 AM

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7/03/26 @ 11:49 AM

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Comment From: Ernesto Hernandez

7/03/26 @ 11:49 AM

It would bring job opportunities for the younger generations.

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7/03/26 @ 11:49 AM

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Comment From: Noah Griego

7/03/26 @ 11:48 AM

Love the to support!! Keep it up

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