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

Comment From: Nacario Izzie

7/05/26 @ 6:18 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 defilement of the authority vested in you.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:18 PM

Dear NMED staff, I am writing because I am concerned about the risks and harms Project Jupiter poses on a global scale. The project's proposed fuel cell powered grid is concerning for many reasons: It would still produce a high level of greenhouse ga...↓

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Comment From: Estolano Chavez

7/05/26 @ 6:18 PM

The people of New Mexico want Data Centers GONE!! Pointless investments that are destroying our earth and resources, while our schools are failing, people are addicted, starving in our streets. NO DATA CENTERS NO SURVEILLANCE STATE!!!

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:18 PM

Se construirem esse data center, vao poluir 2x mais o ar do nosso planeta e acabar com a nossa agua potavel! Não temos outro planeta para viver nem recursos guardados para sempre.

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Comment From: Jarrod Swackhamer

7/05/26 @ 6:18 PM

New Mexico does not need a data center especially with the detrimental environmental impact it would bring. I hope the appropriate parties deny them a permit and focus on supporting ideas that promote the well being of the people and environment of N...↓

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Comment From: Judith Gates

7/05/26 @ 6:18 PM

I oppose the Jupiter Data center. Too many environmental concerns, noise, etc. The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
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Comment From: Daniela Donato

7/05/26 @ 6:18 PM

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Comment From: Noah Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:18 PM

Hello, my name is Noah, I am not from New Mexico however I do live on this earth, and not only will project Jupiter impact the residents near the data center, but me and everyone else on this globe. The effects of this center can possibly be downrigh...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:18 PM

I urge the NMED to outright reject YUCCA Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC's air permit application for the YGI Microgrid. If NMED does not reject the permit, I ask the department to please hold a bilingual hybrid public hearing near the Santa Teresa ...↓

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Comment From: Francis Dana

7/05/26 @ 6:18 PM

I do not support your project of poisoning the air that we all breathe out of. Your company does not need anymore money then it already has. I hope you know that poisoning the air can cause a lot of problems for people and some could possibly die and...↓

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Comment From: Micaela Serafini

7/05/26 @ 6:18 PM

stop proyect jupiter

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Comment From: Caine Cook

7/05/26 @ 6:18 PM

We don't need it

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:17 PM

I am a citizen of the United States of America and I oppose the idea of further polluting our earth; that is why I asking you to deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. Adding 10 million tons of pollution to our air will only harm us a...↓

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Comment From: Rachel Davis

7/05/26 @ 6:17 PM

We only have one earth. Fresh water is finite. The rich will die rich and it doesn't matter to them if they have a legacy but the REST OF US would like the human race to continue and not just be a tiny fraction of rich white people who inbreed to ext...↓

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Comment From: Victor corea

7/05/26 @ 6:17 PM

I am a resident of CA 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 and 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. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we 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. Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and undisclosed chemicals into our public landfills, and we will just have to wait until somebody notices? Our county has and continues to face an illegal dumping epidemic so how can I be sure that these systemic oversight failures we have locally won't continue and expand to include this dangerous and experimental fuel cell operation. A fine for illegal dumping does not undo damage or its spread once our aquifer and soils are contaminated. It also will not re-capture the volatile chemicals that are released into the air when hazardous waste is improperly stored and disposed of.

My family's health and safety should be worth more than the profits of out-of-state corporations. The only defensible options moving forward are to deny this air permit or you must hold a public hearing in-person in Santa Teresa with a component for virtual participation. Materials and the hearing itself must be translated into Spanish and meet any other accessibility needs requested by community members.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:17 PM

Dear NMED staff, While I would like to stay anonymous, I am a New Mexico resident, and I am writing because I am concerned about the risks and harms Project Jupiter poses to not only New Mexicans, but the world at large. I am submitting this comment ...↓

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Comment From: Venice Nguyen

7/05/26 @ 6:17 PM

Please don't follow through with this. I am a student and I am watching the effects of data centers and AI usage directly from my home. I have severe asthma. As data centers use up our clean water, the environment gets drier too, affecting air qualit...↓

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Comment From: Sohpia Ahmed

7/05/26 @ 6:16 PM

Project Jupiter is a project that will cause irreparable harm to the environment. We are already suffering from climate change and this project will only allow climate change to persist. It'll release 10 million tons of climate-warming greenhouse gas...↓

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Comment From: Lily Hernandez

7/05/26 @ 6:16 PM

Stop destroying our home!
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...↓

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Comment From: Emily Hatfield

7/05/26 @ 6:16 PM

To provide more data centers means destroying our natural environment and using up more of resources that cannot be recovered. While freshwater is a renewable resource Humanity is using it far too quickly to be able to have it recover naturally. Plea...↓

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Comment From: Rmoni _

7/05/26 @ 6:16 PM

We have lived before Ai. WE were born BEFORE Ai and we can live without it. Ban it before our earth is effected from it, even if we as one weren't effected, our earth will and without it, who are we? You can do this for you, but how long until it aff...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:16 PM

I'm a young student, and I've lived long enough to witness the damage our hands have inflicted on our planet: fires, pollution, climate change. I've seen forests become just another site of exploitation and pure overproduction, to the point that they...↓

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Comment From: Alina U

7/05/26 @ 6:15 PM

Stop Project Jupiter! We are not in need of this massive data center!!
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 stac...↓k 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 st atistical 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 defilement of the authority vested in you.

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Comment From: Aylen Perez

7/05/26 @ 6:15 PM

STOP destroying our planet for profit, ai is destroying our world and we need to stop this NOW!!
The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
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Comment From: Leona Shepherd

7/05/26 @ 6:15 PM

I am a 14 year old kid, and im scared for my future. im scared that i may not be able to live another year due to the effects of climate change. i want to be an environmentalist when i grow up which makes it even harder to have hope for the future, i...↓

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Comment From: Mónica Hernández

7/05/26 @ 6:15 PM

We only have 3 years, lets change what others couldnt and prevent others living hell

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Comment From: Simone Thuis

7/05/26 @ 6:15 PM

I live all the way in the Netherlands but I am scared. Please stop this project, it is going to kill the planet and ruin my future. Europe is already struggling with the heatwaves caused by climate change and freash drinking water is running out. We ...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:15 PM

Hello, I was just made aware of this project and find it frustrating that I was not made aware of its construction sooner. This data center not only affects the locals, but everyone on our planet. Notice how I said OUR planet? I, and thousands of oth...↓

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Comment From: Taylor Nelson

7/05/26 @ 6:15 PM

The air quality permit application should be denied due to Bloom energy's history of illegal dumping, and also because Dona Ana county already is impacted by environmental pollution and this permit being approved would make certain the county is subj...↓

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Comment From: Laura Garza

7/05/26 @ 6:15 PM

I am a resident of Tijuana and I amasking 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 se...↓

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Comment From: Ash Meckley

7/05/26 @ 6:14 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.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dum...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:14 PM

STOP HURTING THE ENVIRONMENT!!!
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 ...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:14 PM

I'm literally disagreeing this project,please just stop this.We can live without AI and whatever is this,I choose the healthy earth nor this environmental pollutants.

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Comment From: Raynewater Delgado

7/05/26 @ 6:14 PM

I am asking that this data center should not be built. This is not a necessity and it will ruin the ecosystem. It will destroy everything. Why must we keep destroying this planet ? What do we get out of it ? Humans are going to become extinct soon be...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:14 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.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dump...↓

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Comment From: Valentina Torres

7/05/26 @ 6:14 PM

I am a resident of Donna 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 and sec...↓

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Comment From: Cynthia Contreras

7/05/26 @ 6:14 PM

I am a resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico but my family has been in the Las Cruces area for several generations. I love this city, and want to see future generations enjoy it as much as I did growing up and visiting here. The health concerns surroun...↓

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Comment From: Amani Ramirez

7/05/26 @ 6:14 PM

I'm from California, an incoming senior in high school. I have never been so terrified to grow up just due to the fact that AI data centers are growing, polluting our air, taking our water. What will we do? There is so much lost hope in the youth bec...↓

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Comment From: Nela Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:13 PM

Pls stop this. Its bad for us.

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...↓

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Comment From: Emily Mills

7/05/26 @ 6:13 PM

I am writing because I am concerned about the risks and harms Project Jupiter poses to New Mexicans. I am submitting this comment to urge the New Mexico Environment Department to reject Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC's air permit application for th...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:13 PM

Dear NMED staff, I am writing because I am concerned about the risks and harms Project Jupiter poses to New Mexicans. I am submitting this comment to urge the New Mexico Environment Department to reject Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC's air permit a...↓

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Comment From: Mai Doan

7/05/26 @ 6:13 PM

plz bro, i js want this world to be as healthy as it can be. i js want everybody to be happy.

The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
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Comment From: Kathryn Schaefer

7/05/26 @ 6:13 PM

I am a resident of Las Cruces 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. Our future is under threat with this proposed air quality permit. A cha...↓nge 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. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we 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. Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years.
This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and undisclosed chemicals into our public landfills, and we will just have to wait until somebody notices? Our county has and continues to face an illegal dumping epidemic so how can I be sure that these systemic oversight failures we have locally won't continue and expand to include this dangerous and experimental fuel cell operation. A fine for illegal dumping does not undo damage or its spread once our aquifer and soils are contaminated. It also will not re-capture the volatile chemicals that are released into the air when hazardous waste is improperly stored and disposed of. My community's health and safety should be worth more than the profits of out-of-state corporations. The only defensible options moving forward are to deny this air permit or you must hold a public hearing in-person in Santa Teresa with a component for virtual participation. Materials and the hearing itself must be translated into Spanish and meet any other accessibility needs requested by community members. Additionally, 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 given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazardous waste. If the permit is not denied, a public hearing needs to be held in Santa Teresa, in both English and Spanish, with an option to participate virtually. Approving this permit would be government-sponsored environmental racism as residents of Doña Ana County are already disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution.

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Comment From: Daziha Davis

7/05/26 @ 6:13 PM

We do not want project jupiter to happen. please please please do not let this happen. it will kill our earth.

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Comment From: Beau Underwood

7/05/26 @ 6:12 PM

I object to the development of project jupiter

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:12 PM

They're taking our future from us before we even had a chance to live in it. Every day I fear that the world that I saw when I was a kid won't exist anymore, I'm scared. They shove datacenters, ai and changes down our throat and expect us to accept t...↓

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Comment From: Maria Ferreira

7/05/26 @ 6:12 PM

Sinceramente, que ideia é esta?? O planeta já está colapsando. Temos que salvá-lo. Podemos viver sem IA. Compreendo e acho extremamente necessário que podemos ter nossa opinião exposta. Que ideia horrível é essa? Já não basta o que já está acontecend...↓

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Comment From: Penelope Garcia

7/05/26 @ 6:12 PM

We don't want out world to be more ruined by billionaires with these useless data centers when we have other BETTER AND MORE ECO FRIENDLY ways to get energy.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:12 PM

I am a resident of America and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I want to have the chance to raise their children that be secure in their future. That same future is under threat with this proposed air quali...↓ty 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. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we have received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. They 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 their 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. It's already an issue as it is, and I can tell even from other states. Many can barely pay electricity bills in the summer as it is. We cannot afford more intense heat, so many are subjected by head illness even now. Many people work in construction during this miserable heatwave and have nowhere cool to retreat to. The other toxic air pollutants are extremely dangerous; many of them at very low levels. How are people supposed to send their 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.
Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and undisclosed chemicals into our public landfills, and so what? Will we just have to wait until somebody notices? Our county has and continues to face an illegal dumping epidemic so how can I be sure that these systemic oversight failures we have locally won't continue and expand to include this dangerous and experimental fuel cell operation? A fine for illegal dumping does not undo damage or its spread once our aquifer and soils are contaminated. It also will not re-capture the volatile chemicals that are released into the air when hazardous waste is improperly stored and disposed of. My and other family's health and safety should be worth more than the profits of out-of-state corporations. The only defensible options moving forward are to deny this air permit or you must hold a public hearing in-person in Santa Teresa with a component for virtual participation. Materials and the hearing itself must be translated into Spanish and meet any other accessibility needs requested by community members.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:11 PM

We do not need any more data centers, or any at all. Just because you won't be here in 5 to 10 years doesn't mean that we won't. Our health (including yours and your families) should be top priority, not some AI that was never needed and could be shu...↓

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Comment From: Anon Anon

7/05/26 @ 6:11 PM

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Comment From: Ana Chacon

7/05/26 @ 6:11 PM

Dear NMED staff, My name is Ana Chacon. Though I may not live there now, New Mexico is where i was born and raised, and I am writing because I am concerned about the risks and harms Project Jupiter poses to New Mexicans. I am submitting this comment ...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:10 PM

Hi, I'm here to leave my comment to stop the Jupiter project. I don't know what else to write, other than I present my support to stop this project that will only cause more harm to the earth and possibly bring very bad consequences to the environmen...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:10 PM

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...↓

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Comment From: Patrick Poland

7/05/26 @ 6:09 PM

Please stop destroying the earth guys.
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...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:09 PM

Being a resident of New Mexico I am extremely terrified of the impact this will have on our Earth, our health and the future for our children. We do not need data centers to survive. We need water desperately in this state. To put a data center in th...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:09 PM

STOP PROJECT JUPITER

The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.

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Comment From: Kala Komanduri

7/05/26 @ 6:09 PM

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Comment From: Johnny reddie

7/05/26 @ 6:09 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 defilement of the authority vested in you.

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Comment From: Serenity Read Read

7/05/26 @ 6:08 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. The air quality permit application should be denied given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazar...↓

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Comment From: Maverick Anya

7/05/26 @ 6:08 PM

I do not want or need project Jupiter. No one needs it. It will gravely affect the environment and cause even further global warming than what we are dealing with right now. The summers are getting hotter with each year, every hot summer you experien...↓

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Comment From: Simran n/a

7/05/26 @ 6:08 PM

Not only are you killing our ecosystem, the lives of all of us would be at risk. This project supports the death of all and we as a society will never be able to recover from the damage this project would cause, our clean drinking water would be used...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:08 PM

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Comment From: Mikayla Thompson

7/05/26 @ 6:07 PM

AI data centers are dangerous and harmful to our environment. We do not need any kind of structure that will destroy the environment, use up water supplies that people rely on, increase climate temperatures, and create scarcity. This is yet another p...↓

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Comment From: Sara Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:07 PM

I want a better world and environment for my future kids and family and the rest of the world. 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 qu...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:07 PM

I want to change our earths climate change and make the planet better for our future kids.

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 qua...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:07 PM

Please don't destroy what earth we have left for entertainment.

Water is running out and the drinking water used for ai data centers vanish when used to cool them. Not only that but the noise pollution harm that happens to nearby wildlife and people...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:06 PM

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Comment From: Sylvia Martinez

7/05/26 @ 6:06 PM

Please deny their request. NM does not need such a huge amount of water usage. Also the pollution and damage to the environment is not needed.

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Comment From: Jade Peavy

7/05/26 @ 6:06 PM

Look outside. How many trees do you see? Many? Not many? Now. How many birds do you see? How about just grass in general? Nature that we need to survive and you want to build a damn data center that is going to ruin our world forever. We have three y...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:05 PM

why would you try and take away water from here when the rio grande dried up before summer? don't take water from where people and animals use to survive. please remember water is limited.

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Comment From: Lauren Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:05 PM

This has to be stopped for everybody's future. For the planet we harm for our own benefit. The data center will do NOTHING but harm the planet and kill the wildlife surrounding it. We pay the price, but they're the real victims of it. Stop the destru...↓

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Comment From: Neneh ba

7/05/26 @ 6:05 PM

NO MORE DATA CENTERS, NO MORE DATA CENTERS, NO MORE DATA CENTERS, NO MORE DATA CENTERS, NO MORE DATA CENTERS, NO MORE DATA CENTERS, NO MORE DATA CENTERS, NO MORE DATA CENTERS, NO MORE DATA CENTERS. The public should be given an additional 60 days to ...↓

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Comment From: Gustavo Barrera

7/05/26 @ 6:04 PM

Project Jupiter is unnecessary, no one needs this.

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Comment From: Jasiah Williams

7/05/26 @ 6:04 PM

WE CAN LIVE WITHOUT AI!!!! we don't need all these data centers! all they do is use up our water and dry up our planet. we actively destroying where we live!!!! ai used to be harmless and just something cool but niche. now it's everywhere and it's de...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:04 PM

Even though I am not a resident of New Mexico, I still live on this earth and care about the people who live on it with me—and they're building data centres in my town. Generative AI is not needed. It poisons the land and is contributing to the colla...↓

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Comment From: Hilary Dutcher

7/05/26 @ 6:04 PM

I am requesting that the New Mexico Environment Department deny the Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC-YGI Microgrid Air Quality Construction Permit. The air quality of this region is already poor; approving this permit and adding the emissions from th...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:03 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. The air quality permit application should be denied given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazar...↓

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Comment From: Micahia Patterson

7/05/26 @ 6:03 PM

This is depressing and deplorable behavior, we don't need it. Children are suffering, the elderly don't have care, war is rampant and people are dying. Who will use this when we are all dead? Who will it cater to? Who will still be alive to use it? T...↓

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Comment From: Quinn Lester

7/05/26 @ 6:03 PM

We're already struggling. The entire country is. We don't need AI to live. Data centers are slowly killing us all. The more built the sooner we'll die. Children are already so far behind because of AI and not data centers is just hurting them more. T...↓

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Comment From: Santiago Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:03 PM

This data center is unconstitutional, illegal and directly threatens New Mexicans well beings as much as a terrorist threat. This data center will cause noise pollution, habitat loss, extreme water usage and loss, massive affects on our power grid, a...↓

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Comment From: Addie Walker

7/05/26 @ 6:03 PM

I am a resident of Arlington Heights 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 and secure future. That future is under threat. 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. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we 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. Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and undisclosed chemicals into our public landfills, and we will just have to wait until somebody notices? Our county has and continues to face an illegal dumping epidemic so how can I be sure that these systemic oversight failures we have locally won't continue and expand to include this dangerous and experimental fuel cell operation. A fine for illegal dumping does not undo damage or its spread once our aquifer and soils are contaminated. It also will not re-capture the volatile chemicals that are released into the air when hazardous waste is improperly stored and disposed of.

My family's health and safety should be worth more than the profits of out-of-state corporations. The only defensible options moving forward are to deny this air permit or you must hold a public hearing in-person in Santa Teresa with a component for virtual participation. Materials and the hearing itself must be translated into Spanish and meet any other accessibility needs requested by community members.

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Comment From: Christian Sarmiento

7/05/26 @ 6:02 PM

With the drought in NM and the reduction of our aquifers, it's is irresponsible to allow a data center that will use millions of gallons of water. This was rushed and Doña Ana should pass legislation to ban data centers in our region. These data cent...↓

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Comment From: Hannah Witowski

7/05/26 @ 6:02 PM

I am a New Mexico resident of over twenty years, and I strongly urge the Environment Department to reject YUCCA Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC's air permit application for the YGI Microgrid. Project Jupiter would have a severely negative impact on ...↓

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Comment From: Isabella Zaragoza

7/05/26 @ 6:02 PM

I am a resident of California 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 an...↓

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Comment From: Adrianna Thomas

7/05/26 @ 6:02 PM

We need to stop this madness. this is affecting our everyday lives. we don't need ai to survive. it's doing nothing but hurting our planet and crippling people pls let's put and end to this.

New Mexico Environment Department should give the public a...↓

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Comment From: Alexia Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:01 PM

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 E...↓

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Comment From: Kassie Friesen

7/05/26 @ 6:01 PM

I believe project Jupiter is a horrible idea. I want our Earth to get better so my children can grow up and not worry about this insane and inhumane world. The can still find good and I beg you to find it. The public should be given an additional 60 ...↓

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Comment From: Mike Petres

7/05/26 @ 6:01 PM

THIS IS BAD FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT! Respectfully, I know people have addictions with AI. But it's destroying our planet and there's nothing we can do about it, or can we? I just wanna say, I know how hard it is to avoid ai, we can switch to ECOGPT inste...↓ad of Gemini, grok, and chat gpt. These all use more than 39 million gallons of fresh water. It's truly bad. The fuel cells release 10 million tons of carbon dioxide, and that means weather will and can be deadly. We're the last generation to fix climate change and to feel the impact. The rio grande has been drying up even before summer has began! That's how bad it's getting, it's not a heat wave! It's major companies and AI taking advantage of our planet and drying up, but seems like no one cares! these data centers are threatening our communities that depend on the only freshwater we need to survive. REMEMBER, FRESH DRINKING WATER IS LIMITED. We don't need Oracle or AI. Project Jupiter is not needed, these are all mistakes we are making. I will say that humanity will be the end of humanity, it's not safe for us either. We will run out of fresh drinkable water in a few years and global warming will be worse than we have expected. This summer is the coldest it will get, and that's not good at all. No one cares though. I hope that you all realize this is not gonna be helping us or the earth, there's not another planet, no planet B, never will be. Keep submitting these comments and it will cause a little impact now, but now it could be more powerful than we expect it to be. Everyone's losing hope, don't lose it! It's doing something to our planet, it may not be much but there will be more people that are anti-ai! AI will be useless and always will be, teachers use it, and others will to. That doesn't mean that we should use it and follow into their own footsteps and be in their shoes. Their shoes are useless. We can do something about it! It can help everything about the planet! Not much we can do but we can do something.

SAVE OUR PLANET! Ai is using pictures of children to make deepfakes and more. It's not only dangerous for our planet but for children. Our earth will dry out more than we can think. We can do something! Please summit one comment! If not, more! It will do everything to people against ai and are anti-ai. Some people have to fight for clean water, and water drying out is already happening. This even causes health risks. I do not want to do a public hearing if this is accepted and not denied. I don't wanna speak as I don't want to be publicly humiliated. So I ask of you respectfully, please do not make me hold a public hearing in Santa Teresa if my permit is accepted. Thank you.

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Comment From: ANONYMOUS Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:00 PM

WE NEED WATER AND GOOD QUALITY AIR TO LIVE ! "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 outrigh...↓

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Comment From: Natcely Cardenas

7/05/26 @ 6:00 PM

I recently traveled through new mexico, from dona ana to Colorado, along the way we saw a lot of project Jupiter representatives claiming to have a petition for cleaner water and air. You have to read the fineprint to see its really to help push proj...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 6:00 PM

My name is Anonymous. And although I am not a New Mexico resident, I am writing because I am concerned about the risks and harms Project Jupiter poses to New Mexicans. I am submitting this comment to urge the New Mexico Environment Department to reje...↓

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Comment From: Sydney Bennett

7/05/26 @ 6:00 PM

We don't want more technology. We want more food.

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Comment From: Isabella Corea

7/05/26 @ 5:59 PM

Please take into consideration the mass amounts of suffering not only the people of our communities will face but YOU as an individual will HAVE to go through as well. This isn't "progress" and shouldn't be seen as such. This is only deteriorating ou...↓

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Comment From: Malak Abu khemsah

7/05/26 @ 5:59 PM

Keep the peace, No ai data centre we don't need more wastes of water

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 5:59 PM

We need to care for our planet if we want our planet to care for us. We aren't killing earth, we're killing ourselves and every lifeform we share a planet with. Projects like this put us closer and closer to making our planet inhabitable. Please don'...↓

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Comment From: Veronique Moore

7/05/26 @ 5:58 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 project will inarguably have massive, potentally devastating climate impact. Without accurate ways of measuring this impact it effectively washes its hands of accountability. If we keep treating our planet like an industrial playground many will die firsthand from droughts, climate events and pollution, others will be taken by the war or disease stemming from it. Not to mention that land ownership is a human concept, other beings that lack this capability have no way to combat what occurs on their shared land. If we create superhuman AI that thinks freely and with alien goals and problem solving methods and capable of sidestepping human safeguards by its very nature, frankly, we will all die. The perpetuation of datacentres is incompatible with life and the window to intervene is closing. I ask that the following be considered: 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 given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazardous waste. If the permit is not denied, a public hearing needs to be held in Santa Teresa, in both English and Spanish, with an option to participate virtually. Approving this permit would be government-sponsored environmental racism as residents of Doña Ana County are already disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution.

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Comment From: Crystal Unknown

7/05/26 @ 5:58 PM

Large corporation shouldn't have the power to build unnecessary structures that are degrading the lands of the communities that live there and shouldn't have the right to control the air above those communities for their own selfish gain.

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Comment From: Cydnee Guilford

7/05/26 @ 5:58 PM

Dear NMED staff, I am writing to you because I am concerned about the risks and harms Project Jupiter poses to New Mexicans. I am submitting this comment to urge the New Mexico Environment Department to reject Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC's air p...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 5:58 PM

STOP CONSTRUCTION OF DATA CENTRES! They are destroying our world, using our clean water, contributing to global warming, decreasing air quality, and eliminating nature areas. This needs to stop. It is killing the Earth and hurting all people and anim...↓

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