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

Comment From: Nida n/a

7/05/26 @ 3:11 PM

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 un...↓der 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. 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. Though approximations of annual air pollution were provided, the testing used an extremely weak methodology leaving us, ultimately, with pseudoscientific guesses that have large margins of error. Estimated pollution levels for this gas-powered fuel cell plant are based on only three 4-hour pollution tests from a very small unit (only 65 kW). This is a far cry from thousands of sweltering fuel cells operating 24/7 at maximum output in close proximity, all in the scorching heat of our open desert. The lack of rigorous testing at even this small of a scale is lazy and very concerning, especially given that the gas power plant Yucca Growth Infrastructure wants to build is 37,000 times bigger than this unit. 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: Haven Boyd

7/05/26 @ 3:11 PM

Unfortunately I'm not as knowledged as I would like to pretend I am on the effects of AI data centers. However, I know enough. The pollution to the air and water in the surrounding area would be disastrous for the residents the data center would be b...↓

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Comment From: Miyah Cole

7/05/26 @ 3:10 PM

Please stop Project Jupiter before it does irreversible damage to the communities surrounding it and the overall environment! We do not need data centers draining the Rio Grande or other water sources needed to survive. AI could be a useful, reliable...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:10 PM

No shortcuts for gas and oil pipelines. What we need more is to protect the very planet that gave us life.
New Mexico Environment Department should give the public an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community mem...↓

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Comment From: Ana Puff

7/05/26 @ 3:10 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: ABRAHAM RUIZ

7/05/26 @ 3:10 PM

NO DATA CENTERS
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 histor...↓

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Comment From: Sierra Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:10 PM

We should not allow this data center to be built. Our ecosystem is more important than billionaires making money. We need clean air to breathe and clean water to drink more than AI.

The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comm...↓

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Comment From: NA NA

7/05/26 @ 3:09 PM

I mean c'mon this is just a shitty thing to do with shitty outcomes for everyone. I don't think there is a reason to make or do anything that will have such a negative impact in the world. This should never have been an idea and should never be built...↓

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Comment From: Saoirse Clyne

7/05/26 @ 3:09 PM

I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. The 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 ai...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:08 PM

This act is disgraceful and if it proceeds we are deemed to suffer, it pollutes our air and drys the rivers, now only will it effect humans but animals too as animals rely on rivers as a water source and like any living being , they , and we, rely on...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:08 PM

It will damage the environment very badly! 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 ...↓

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Comment From: Aryana Hall

7/05/26 @ 3:08 PM

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 permi...↓

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Comment From: LIZZIE JONES

7/05/26 @ 3:08 PM

This has to stop.
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 hist...↓

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Comment From: Harmani Martinez

7/05/26 @ 3:08 PM

We do not need Ai, this data center and whole project is a threat to our earth and our lives. WE THE PEOPLE DO NOT NEED AI OR DATA CENTERS! Especially not one as climate damaging and death bringing as this one.

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Comment From: Thomas Arthur

7/05/26 @ 3:08 PM

Making a data center that pumps out 10 million TONS of gas annually does not benefit any community whatsoever. Nor the constant incessant that drives out wildlife and grates on everyone's ears.

The public should be given an additional 60 days to rev...↓

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Comment From: Lara Hong

7/05/26 @ 3:07 PM

I'm only 16. i want to live in a world that isnt dying. Our summers are already hotter than they ever should have been. I want to get married to my boyfriend one day and raise my kids on a planet where I don't have to see people dying because they ha...↓ve no water left to drink. What will AI bring us if we're all dead. What will it do if none of us can afford to live. Why spend billions of dollars on something that will benefit no one. Not even the rich people that are funding it. They might get richer and then what. You'll die just like everyone else, because you are a homosapian. Not human because a human would have empathy which is something you clearly lack. I dont imagine that the comments will actually reach the hearts of the people that want to build these data centers, partly because of the lack of one, mainly because they only really care about getting richer, or famouse or whatever it is they want. Technology shouldn't be the source of our end. Humans are made from technology. Many philosophies are built on the homo compensator, the idea that because we as a species lack any natural talents we created our own way of surviving. But building this data centers is a death sentence. We waste water, we waste resources, we waste time and effort. If the people who are overseeing this want to actually help humanity as a whole, which includes them since we are all the same species no matter how poor or rich or white we are, then they will stop and wasting resources and money on this and help save our planet from the disasters they are trying to make worse. This isn't just something that affects a small community. It is somethings that effects all of us. Every newborn baby, every teenager every adult every elderly every plant every animal every grain of sand that makes up our beaches. If we want to achieve greatness as humanity then this is not the way. A data center shouldn't take away basic necessities we need to survive

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: Mckinlie Hemming

7/05/26 @ 3:07 PM

Dear NMED staff, My name is Mckinlie Hemming, and I am a concerned community member and new mexico resident, writing to urge you to reject Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC's air permit application for the YGI Microgrid in Doña Ana County. Project Jup...↓iter's power plant would release up to 10 million tons of climate-warming greenhouse gases every year — more than the combined emissions of Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and Santa Fe. That alone would erase most of the climate progress New Mexico has made in the last two decades and make a mockery of our state's climate goals. The proposed "micro" grid has a 2,462 MW capacity — nearly the size of the entire El Paso Electric grid (2,900 MW) and comparable to the full PNM grid (2,700 MW). But unlike those grids, which include substantial renewable energy and produce far less total pollution, this single project would be a massive new source of greenhouse gas and toxic emissions. This is an environmental justice issue. Santa Teresa Elementary and High School sit within five miles of the proposed site, where 96% of high school students are Hispanic. Daycare centers are nearby too. These children are especially vulnerable to NOx, CO, and VOCs. The Chihuahuan Desert borderlands are not a dumping ground for experimental technology, and Santa Teresa should not be ground zero for Bloom Technologies to scale their toxic technologies. Tribal governments — including Tortugas Pueblo, Ysleta del Sur, and Pueblo communities with landholdings in Doña Ana County — have not been properly notified of this application. The technology itself is unproven at this scale. This facility would be 1,000 times larger than the largest existing Bloom fuel cell installation, yet the application relies on pollution testing from a single 65 kW unit — 37,000 times smaller than the proposed plant. fuel cells also generate hazardous waste in "default canisters" and the claim that filter changes are exempt from air permitting (under 1,000 Ibs/yr).

"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: Iris Garner

7/05/26 @ 3:07 PM

We can live without ai no one can live without water.

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 deni...↓

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Comment From: Riley, Tattersall

7/05/26 @ 3:07 PM

This is an unlawful oversight of environmental protections, human safety standards, and fueling an industry that does NOT work for American citizens but rather makes them suffer. Give your communities and their neighbors the mandated 60 day voting pe...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:07 PM

Given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazardous waste this permit should be denied. The people do not want this to go through, the people should be able to have a say on things that affect their own lives. If the permit is not denied, a pub...↓

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Comment From: Victoria Tafoya

7/05/26 @ 3:07 PM

I am a resident New Mexico 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 s...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:06 PM

The health and safety of our community members should be worth more than the profits of out-of-state corporations. Moving forward we mush deny this air permit or at the very least hold a public hearing in-person in Santa Teresa with both a in person ...↓

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Comment From: Kai W

7/05/26 @ 3:06 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: Abbi Slater

7/05/26 @ 3:06 PM

WE DONT WANT AI DATA CENTERS.

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 b...↓

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Comment From: Anónimo Anónimo

7/05/26 @ 3:06 PM

Project Jupiter initially applied for air permits to the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) back in April, under the first name Acoma LLC. This original application sought to build two, separate gas power plants. After the public successfully s...↓

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Comment From: ANGEL O

7/05/26 @ 3:06 PM

project Jupiter will bring nothing but harmful effects and a destruction of communities I cannot stand for the environment to suffer in an unecessary manner.

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Comment From: Elienai Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:06 PM

please stop this project
"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 Energ...↓

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Comment From: Angelina Villarreal

7/05/26 @ 3:06 PM

I am a resident of Las Cruces and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I've lived here all my life and this is my home. I want to continue seeing my nieces and nephew grow up here knowing they have a safe and se...↓

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Comment From: Michael Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:05 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: Rebecca Salazar

7/05/26 @ 3:05 PM

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Comment From: Natalie B

7/05/26 @ 3:04 PM

I want my children to grow up in a safe world, with bountiful nature and one that is full of resources! Just like past generations have gotten to. We (current young and future generations) should not have to pay for the detrimental mistakes that the ...↓

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Comment From: Phoenix Hogan

7/05/26 @ 3:04 PM

Dear NMED staff, My name is Phoenix Hogan. I am a New Mexico resident, living Las Cruces NM, and 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 ...↓

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Comment From: Ashley Green

7/05/26 @ 3:04 PM

I live Exton Pennsylvania, and Project Jupiter disgusts me. I am asking that you deny the Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. We do not need more fuel cells being built, we need to address the rising problem of climate change and reduce...↓

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Comment From: Jenifer Ontiveros Aguilar

7/05/26 @ 3:03 PM

Yucca Growth Infrastructure's gas-powered fuel cell plant is 1,000 times larger than Bloom Energy's biggest existing fuel cell plant. In fact, worldwide, Bloom Energy has developed 1.4 GW of fuel cell technology across more than a thousand locations,...↓ yet Yucca Growth Infrastructure is asking for nearly double that (2.46 GW of fuel cells) at a singular location. The largest fuel cell plant in the entire world is more than 30 times smaller than the fuel cell plant under consideration in Santa Teresa. There is absolutely no way to know, with certainty, what the actual pollution levels will be given the tremendous size differential, and thus gap in data, between operational fuel cell plants and this theoretical plant proposed by Yucca Growth Infrastructure. Betting the livability of our county on this unpredictable and unproven plan would be a total capitulation and betrayal of your so-called values: "protects the public health of New Mexicans...by preventing the deterioration of air quality;" "protect and restore the environment...foster a healthy NM for present and future generations" Though approximations of annual air pollution were provided, the testing used an extremely weak methodology leaving us, ultimately, with pseudoscientific guesses that have large margins of error. Estimated pollution levels for this gas-powered fuel cell plant are based on only three 4-hour pollution tests from a very small unit (only 65 kW). This is a far cry from thousands of sweltering fuel cells operating 24/7 at maximum output in close proximity, all in the scorching heat of our open desert. The lack of rigorous testing at even this small of a scale is lazy and very concerning, especially given that the gas power plant Yucca Growth Infrastructure wants to build is 37,000 times bigger than this unit. A 15% "safety margin" was added to the numbers provided by the applicant. Safety margins are not usually added if a company is confident in the accuracy of their pollution estimates. 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: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:03 PM

We don't need anymore of these data centers, they're ruining everything for everyone and only serve to make life for the average citizen a hellscape. We need clean water to drink and affordable, well, everything. AI centers only harm us and the Earth...↓

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Comment From: Yeva Hammond

7/05/26 @ 3:03 PM

NO TO 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.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright given Bloom Energy'...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:02 PM

This is damaging to the environment. It is a climate catastrophe. We have already experienced record-high heatwaves across the globe. Doing this adds to the destruction of our planet and the eradication of life as we know it.

The public should be gi...↓

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Comment From: elizabeth rod

7/05/26 @ 3:02 PM

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:02 PM

Project Jupiter's power plant will release up to 10 million tons of climate-warming greenhouse gasses every year. This would make a mockery of NM's climate goals, and erase most of the climate progress we have made in the last two decades. Santa Tere...↓

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Comment From: N/A N/A

7/05/26 @ 3:02 PM

Our earth is dying. This isn't needed. There is no other earth for us to run too.

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Comment From: Emily McIntosh

7/05/26 @ 3:01 PM

STOP THIS it is hurting the climate and taking away resources 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 applicati...↓

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Comment From: Paul Bjorgan

7/05/26 @ 3:01 PM

Project Jupiter is a methane fueled power plant with too
dangerous amounts of pollution. And it's expected to use one million gallons of water per day. Two reasons to not have this data center in our state! I and everyone I know is against Project ...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 3:01 PM

There is no sustainable path for project Jupiter to continue. The air quality as it is, is not currently meeting air quality standards. The hazardous waste that will be generated from project Jupiter will devastate the land, and take New Mexico's pre...↓

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Comment From: NAQIBAH N/A

7/05/26 @ 3:01 PM

STOP PROJECT JUPITER THE EARTH DOESN'T NEED US WE NEED IT SO LETS START TREATING IT LIKE SUCH

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Comment From: Elena Bunker Ryiz

7/05/26 @ 3:01 PM

New Mexico does not have the energy or water for this project it will have detrimental effect on people here.

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Comment From: Tessa Sheridan

7/05/26 @ 3:00 PM

I'm a teenager and I want to be a nature conservationist. I read into this project and can tell you that it will severely impact climate change and make it much worse.

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Comment From: Anthony Moreno

7/05/26 @ 3:00 PM

I am a resident of riverside California already facing environmental and social issues in my area and strongly against other communities being polluted and destroyed by privately owned businesses without any concent of the committee's their directly ...↓

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Comment From: Leslie Nesbit

7/05/26 @ 2:59 PM

What I have learned about this project, which most of New Mexicans oppose , is that this data center will increase pollution around vulnerable communities. High schools, day care centers, and the natural environment

Data centers in Atlanta Georg...↓

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Comment From: Laura Bleichert

7/05/26 @ 2:59 PM

Issues with pollution monitoring & lack of controls 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 enti
"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: theo ronen

7/05/26 @ 2:59 PM

You WILL ruin our planet

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 Energ...↓

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Comment From: mason SARGEANT

7/05/26 @ 2:58 PM

There are people all across the world without access to clean drinking water. There are so many drought prone areas across the United States alone. Real life humans actually need this water to survive. The Earth isn't doomed global warming is still r...↓

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Comment From: Loui Burton

7/05/26 @ 2:58 PM

As a citizen of New Mexico, I request that the construction of Project Jupiter cease immediately. The construction of this facility will only harm the surrounding area (wildlife and people alike) by emitting fumes and using up what little water our s...↓

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Comment From: Anna Smith

7/05/26 @ 2:58 PM

SAVE THE PLANET

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.

"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: Chancelle Bityeki

7/05/26 @ 2:58 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...↓gest existing fuel cell plant. In fact, worldwide, Bloom Energy has developed 1.4 GW of fuel cell technology across more than a thousand locations, yet Yucca Growth Infrastructure is asking for nearly double that (2.46 GW of fuel cells) at a singular location. The largest fuel cell plant in the entire world is more than 30 times smaller than the fuel cell plant under consideration in Santa Teresa. There is absolutely no way to know, with certainty, what the actual pollution levels will be given the tremendous size differential, and thus gap in data, between operational fuel cell plants and this theoretical plant proposed by Yucca Growth Infrastructure. Betting the livability of our county on this unpredictable and unproven plan would be a total capitulation and betrayal of your so-called values: "protects the public health of New Mexicans...by preventing the deterioration of air quality;" "protect and restore the environment...foster a healthy NM for present and future generations" Though approximations of annual air pollution were provided, the testing used an extremely weak methodology leaving us, ultimately, with pseudoscientific guesses that have large margins of error. Estimated pollution levels for this gas-powered fuel cell plant are based on only three 4-hour pollution tests from a very small unit (only 65 kW). This is a far cry from thousands of sweltering fuel cells operating 24/7 at maximum output in close proximity, all in the scorching heat of our open desert. The lack of rigorous testing at even this small of a scale is lazy and very concerning, especially given that the gas power plant Yucca Growth Infrastructure wants to build is 37,000 times bigger than this unit.

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: Delilah Acosta

7/05/26 @ 2:57 PM

We cannot treat New Mexico as a dead land, these people don't know the life and loving memories made here, the same being connected with My rio grande that gives us most our warm showers and cold water to our fresh clothes and sheets. AI doesn't dese...↓

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Comment From: Rachel Anderson

7/05/26 @ 2:57 PM

You are actively tearing our ecosystems apart. You are actively removing clean freshwater from humans that need unlike AI centers that have no place in our world. Stop the madness now you are insane if you support this.

New Mexico Environment Depart...↓

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Comment From: Melissa Powell

7/05/26 @ 2:57 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: Maranda Miller

7/05/26 @ 2:57 PM

We have to stop this project if we want our kids to live in a comfortable society

"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 perm...↓

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Comment From: Frank O'B

7/05/26 @ 2:57 PM

AI sucks throw this project in the dump

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 gi...↓

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Comment From: Jenna Chabuk

7/05/26 @ 2:57 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: Taylor Warner

7/05/26 @ 2:56 PM

I vehemently oppose Project Jupiter as it is completely misaligns with the values of New Mexico. Putting a data center in the desert will endanger the land, the water, and the living things there not to mention in the entire state. If this data cente...↓

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Comment From: Nagy Kamilla

7/05/26 @ 2:56 PM

we dont need ai to live

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 control...↓s 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: Men Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 2:56 PM

NO to 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.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright given Bloom Energy's...↓

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Comment From: RILEY DROWN

7/05/26 @ 2:55 PM

I want a future of being able to exist in a world that hasn't been ruined. I want children of the future to play outside enjoying the same nature I did. I want no more ai data centers that destroy this dream.

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Comment From: Katie Isenberg

7/05/26 @ 2:55 PM

We don't need this! Human kind is already struggling as it is! We don't need another push over the edge.

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 a...↓nd 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: Roberto Reyes

7/05/26 @ 2:55 PM

Dear NMED staff, I am a resident of Austin Texas. Yes I am not a resident of New Mexico but I am a resident of the world we share. This is OUR WORLD, I write this letter to share my opposing view on the opening of your new data center / your project ...↓

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Comment From: NA NA

7/05/26 @ 2:55 PM

"Project Jupiter" carries unavoidable, negative environmental changes, which will affect many communities. (E.g. less fresh drinking water)

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Comment From: Sofiz n/a

7/05/26 @ 2:55 PM

Please dont do this. I am from New York City, and like the developers of this project, i hold many points of privilege. Unlike others around the world, i am not as directly impacted by the negative effects developing AI has on the planet; however, th...↓

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Comment From: Anthony Albright

7/05/26 @ 2:55 PM

I live in Bernallio 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 biggest exi...↓sting fuel cell plant. In fact, worldwide, Bloom Energy has developed 1.4 GW of fuel cell technology across more than a thousand locations, yet Yucca Growth Infrastructure is asking for nearly double that (2.46 GW of fuel cells) at a singular location. The largest fuel cell plant in the entire world is more than 30 times smaller than the fuel cell plant under consideration in Santa Teresa. There is absolutely no way to know, with certainty, what the actual pollution levels will be given the tremendous size differential, and thus gap in data, between operational fuel cell plants and this theoretical plant proposed by Yucca Growth Infrastructure. Betting the livability of our county on this unpredictable and unproven plan would be a total capitulation and betrayal of your so-called values: "protects the public health of New Mexicans...by preventing the deterioration of air quality;" "protect and restore the environment...foster a healthy NM for present and future generations"

Though approximations of annual air pollution were provided, the testing used an extremely weak methodology leaving us, ultimately, with pseudoscientific guesses that have large margins of error. Estimated pollution levels for this gas-powered fuel cell plant are based on only three 4-hour pollution tests from a very small unit (only 65 kW). This is a far cry from thousands of sweltering fuel cells operating 24/7 at maximum output in close proximity, all in the scorching heat of our open desert. The lack of rigorous testing at even this small of a scale is lazy and very concerning, especially given that the gas power plant Yucca Growth Infrastructure wants to build is 37,000 times bigger than this unit.

A 15% "safety margin" was added to the numbers provided by the applicant. Safety margins are not usually added if a company is confident in the accuracy of their pollution estimates. Even small variations from this superficial test will result in massively different levels of pollution and given that the plant will be 37,000 bigger than the testing unit, a 15% safety margin is completely insufficient–it could work as a margin for a single unit, but not the entire plant. If a unit has a 0.01% chance of failing (sounds promising right?), the odds of 37,000 of those units working perfectly at the same time is 2.47% (pathetically low feasibility). That means there is a 97.53% chance that the plant will experience at least one failure. What will the exact level of redundancy be? Will more fuel cells be rubberstamped or pollution levels overlooked in five years or less due to age-related inefficiencies?

What about cases of catastrophic failure? Are we approving those deadly incidents of pollution in advance without any real data informing us of the risks at this scale? Highly flammable hydrogen under high pressure only needs a microscopic crack to leak out, ignite, explode, and level entire neighborhoods and schools while sending shockwaves into nearby counties. Assuming this risk, an act of gross negligence, at a scale that has never even remotely been demonstrated in practice would be unbelievably careless. These permits must be denied outright. If further deliberation is desired, a public hearing in Santa Teresa is non-negotiable.

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Comment From: J Williams

7/05/26 @ 2:55 PM

WE CAN LIVE WITHOUT AI

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: Kate Mwangi

7/05/26 @ 2:54 PM

Humanity can live without artificial intelligence, and those who try to continue to try to convince you otherwise are liars and profiting off your ignorance.

New Mexico Environment Department should give the public an additional 60 days to review an...↓

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Comment From: Lynnea cannizzo

7/05/26 @ 2:54 PM

I really don't think we need ai more than water,please we don't need it more than water.besides. it's wasting materials,place for animals and our water. It's not even needed. If I would needed it I would already said yes sure but no. No one does. Dec...↓

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Comment From: Robertrey Jaramillo

7/05/26 @ 2:54 PM

I, Robertrey Jaramillo, am making my opinion known to denounce Project Jupiter.

The actions of this center pose a threat to the community in its usage of utilities through electrical and water. Data Centers are shown on smaller scales to rival ci...↓

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Comment From: Brooklyn Hampton

7/05/26 @ 2:54 PM

Stop project Jupiter. We have doctors and lawyers who are 40yrs+ who did their education without Ai. The new generation can accomplish even more without it.

The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality pe...↓

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Comment From: Ryan Cornwall

7/05/26 @ 2:53 PM

I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. Our planet is all we have, we need to protect it. Our planet is more important than any profit.

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Comment From: JADA KELLER

7/05/26 @ 2:53 PM

I am a resident of Ohio 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 living here knowing that we have a safe and secure future....↓

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Comment From: Alexandra Muniz

7/05/26 @ 2:53 PM

Stop the attempts to sacrifice our communities

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 outr...↓

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Comment From: Neyeli Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 2:53 PM

We do not need project Jupiter, as it is ai is taking large amounts water. We have lived without ai before we do not need ai taking up anymore space.

New Mexico Environment Department should give the public an additional 60 days to review and commen...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 2:53 PM

This is disgusting and harmful to our planet, our environment is polluted enough and this act will not only pollute our air but it will dry up our rivers, this is inhumane.

"The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on t...↓

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Comment From: Angelica Famosi

7/05/26 @ 2:53 PM

My name is Angelica Famosi and I am a resident of Santa Fe NM. I am commenting to ask that the air quality permit for Project Jupiter be denied. The risks for this project do not take into account the well being of the residents in the surrounding ar...↓

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Comment From: Pat Quintana

7/05/26 @ 2:53 PM

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 2:53 PM

Save the earth! We don't want to destroy our homes where we have lived for centuries. Many people I'll only realize once it's too late that you can't eat money.!

The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air qual...↓

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Comment From: A Peterson

7/05/26 @ 2:52 PM

Please DO NOT APPROVE air quality permit #10883 FOR YUCCA Growth Infrastructure, LLC. The proposed "microgrid power generation facility" (Project Jupiter) will emit unhealthy amounts of greenhouse gases that will be harmful to the residents in the S...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 2:52 PM

It is imoportant to have clean and fresh air for everybody, humans and animals. For us to have a good future, for our future generations we should have clean air.
"The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air qual...↓

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Comment From: Rachelle Dragomir

7/05/26 @ 2:52 PM

Deny the air quality application permit for Jupiter Data Center Development in general and data centers specifically detrimentally impact the environment. The cost of massive development for data centers is too great for minimal long term job creatio...↓

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Comment From: LIANA STAR

7/05/26 @ 2:51 PM

I oppose 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.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright given Bloom Energ...↓

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Comment From: Rey Hibbard

7/05/26 @ 2:51 PM

A.I WILL destroy our planet. We DO NOT need A.I to live, but we do need clean air and water. Is it really worth it to doom the planet for this?

New Mexico Environment Department should give the public an additional 60 days to review and comment on t...↓

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Comment From: Ryan Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 2:51 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.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright given Bloom Energy's ...↓

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Comment From: Avery Lykins

7/05/26 @ 2:51 PM

It's disgusting that there is even the possibility for this data center to be built. I can't believe the absolute disregard that people have for our fragile environment. All of this for money that won't be useable when the environment is too damaged....↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 2:51 PM

I'm writing to make absolutely clear how opposed I am to this project. I do not want another data centre much less one that will be one of "the biggest ones in the world"

The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the ...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/05/26 @ 2:50 PM

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Comment From: Grace Kayler

7/05/26 @ 2:50 PM

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 ...↓

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Comment From: Israel Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 2:50 PM

I am deeply concerned with the affects on the climate project Jupiter is going to have. It's estimated that it will fill the air with 10 million tons of climate warming gasses a year. This not only disregards New Mexicos previously established climat...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/05/26 @ 2:50 PM

I think that this will really put everyone in a really bad state especially because idk if it is true but the Ai uses a lot of water just for the cooling which is also water that we need then also the air pollution will get worse because there's alre...↓

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Comment From: Shaunasy McCarty

7/05/26 @ 2:50 PM

New Mexico is a beautiful desert state with so many more things to offer it other than a giant data center taking our natural resources. We've been in a drought since the state was created, and with data centers using MILLIONS of gallons of fresh wat...↓

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Comment From: Lyndon Anonymous

7/05/26 @ 2:50 PM

I am turning 16 in a month and 25 days. I don't know if there's a point to grow older if this is my future. This project devastate the forest, ecosystems, animals and water supply. It'll release unprecedented amounts of CO2 into the air that we won't...↓

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Comment From: Jamie Luna

7/05/26 @ 2:49 PM

Stop killing the only planet we have, the insatiable greed won't get you more money anyway when there's nobody alive to give it to you. It is insidious to think anyone could be okay with razing the world for incompetent technology in the first place,...↓

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Comment From: XJ SEVEN

7/05/26 @ 2:49 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: Ronald White

7/05/26 @ 2:49 PM

In addition to the massive releases of CO2 and particulate matter, which should not be allowed in a Federally recognized air quality non-attainment area, please look at the impacts of the heat that will be generated as a result of the cooling require...↓

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Comment From: KYRYL N/A

7/05/26 @ 2:48 PM

Stop the project Jupiter, save the planet. The heat is already deadly and unbearable. Fresh water should be used by local communities, not the soulless machine with no logical purpose. Emissions from the gas turbines used globally to power data cente...↓

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