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

Comment From: Sophia Warren

7/04/26 @ 9:27 PM

Stop projecting jupiter.

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Comment From: Jenna tabor

7/04/26 @ 9:26 PM

This is incredibly bad for our environment, we already have a limited resource of useable drinking water. If project Jupiter continues then our ecosystem is completely fucked. Climate change is already at an all time high and this will just make it w...↓

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Comment From: Samantha Christman

7/04/26 @ 9:26 PM

This earth should be our sanctuary. Why are people with money trying to destroy the only beautiful things we have left?

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:26 PM

This data center is ENTIRELY unnecessary and we DOCNOT WANT OR NEED IT!! We are already in a drought in most of the country and this will cause us to loose more and more drinking water that is viable for any living being on this planet. Y'all are jus...↓

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Comment From: Isabella Martin

7/04/26 @ 9:25 PM

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Comment From: Makayla R

7/04/26 @ 9:25 PM

Get this out of here. It does not benefit the people of New Mexico nor belong here with the limited water resources we have.

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Comment From: Ximena Juarez

7/04/26 @ 9:25 PM

I hope this project stops is the worst thing they could think of

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: Ariana McCaskill

7/04/26 @ 9:25 PM

This needs to be stopped for the sake of our future!

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Comment From: Steven Ornelas

7/04/26 @ 9:24 PM

We've lived without ai, we never needed it.

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Comment From: Neah craighead

7/04/26 @ 9:23 PM

One little push to help save lives. Protect our air and reject the permits

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Comment From: Luis Hernández

7/04/26 @ 9:23 PM

No to protect 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: Aubre Erickson

7/04/26 @ 9:23 PM

Stop destroying people's ability to live comfortably with AI data centers. This will ruin not only animal life but human life as well. Constant droning noise is used as a military torture tactic. How is it fair to put innocent civilians and animals t...↓

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Comment From: Eden Stroupe

7/04/26 @ 9:22 PM

I am a resident of ABQ 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 secur...↓e 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: Zidhara Hall

7/04/26 @ 9:22 PM

We don't need AI it's destroying our communities, economy, and most importantly 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 qua...↓

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Comment From: Diána Blaskovics

7/04/26 @ 9:22 PM

"Rent is high and the taxes due on a floating rock, burning avenues. Where's the alien? Who can save us now? Mother nature screams death is guaranteed, I'll say it again burning away, falling away, dying away,...."

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Comment From: Steven Monget

7/04/26 @ 9:22 PM

FUCK PROJECT JUPITER. New Mexico doesn't need or want your data centers here. Go destroy your own cities

"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: Logan Jones

7/04/26 @ 9:21 PM

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:21 PM

Students, like myself, spend around 12-16 years in school, gaining an education and understanding of the world around them. AI is an unnecessary tool if you are able to receive a proper education. AI will put a hindrance on human ability to learn, no...↓

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Comment From: Uliana Permiakova

7/04/26 @ 9:20 PM

I am a 16 year old, who wants a future. I want me and my friends, and for all of the other teenagers like me, to finish school, graduate from Unix get to work or do whatever they want to, and have a future for their children too.

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Comment From: Finn Kuna

7/04/26 @ 9:20 PM

Project Jupiter is a waste of resources our state needs. This plan needs to come to a full stop before more damage that cannot be undone happens. New Mexico needs affordable housing, jobs, and resources for the homeless & addicts. AI is not a magical...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:20 PM

Please do not do this it will be a climate disaster we the people are begging you to please not do this it will kill land and animals this will release 10 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, climate is already a depleting problem

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:20 PM

Your decisions will have consequences. If you people think data centers and AI will help the world then it's the most selfish and dumbest thing I've ever heard. This affects all the life on earth. What we really need is water, ecosystems, diversity, ...↓

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Comment From: Jessica P

7/04/26 @ 9:20 PM

We were fine before AI and data centers, we will be fine without it. Why pick such an already dry place? It's harmful to the environment

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:19 PM

Stop project Jupiter, we need water to live!! Not for AI.

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Comment From: Daniel Rodriguez

7/04/26 @ 9:19 PM

Your f******* up the resources and planet. Your A.I. is good at resource maxing but the end variable that is overlooked is Human Life.

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Comment From: Brianna G. O'Connor

7/04/26 @ 9:18 PM

I urge the NMED to deny Air Quality Construction Permit Application 10883 for the Yucca Growth Infrastructure (YGI) Microgrid in southern Doña Ana County. Granting a permit to emit over 10 million metric tons of CO2 annually violates NMED's mission t...↓o protect public health and prevent air quality deterioration, disproportionately harming BIPOC and low-income communities. The application relies on an unproven, unregulatable, and inadequately tested design: * Unprecedented, Unproven Scale: YGI proposes using 2,275 Bloom Energy Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC). Though several projects have been announced with much fanfare, the largest operating Bloom installation is a 40 MW facility - 60 times smaller than what is proposed here. Scaling this technology to a mega-utility application remains entirely unproven. * Suspect Estimates & Inadequate Testing: The emissions data provided is based on testing of a single, 65 kW unit four times for four hours. Extrapolating data from a unit 37,876 times smaller than the proposed plant capacity - and adjusting it with an arbitrary 15% safety margin - fails to provide credible empirical evidence. The emissions data provided by the company cannot be trusted. * Enforcement Impossibility: The design routes 2,275 individual cells through separate stacks with no add-on pollution control mechanisms or integrated continuous monitoring for particulate matter, VOCs, or shifting CO2 intensity. NMED cannot practically enforce compliance under 20.2.72.210 NMAC across thousands of individual, degrading units. * Severe Public Health & Environmental Impacts: The microgrid will emit 161.2 tons/year of CO and 124 tons/year of VOCs near existing EPA non-attainment zones. It will generate a thermal plume and a "heat island" effect, raising downwind temperatures by up to 3.6°F in a sweltering desert climate, threatening vulnerable populations.

"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: Phoenix Stephens

7/04/26 @ 9:18 PM

I live in a small city in Pennsylvania and it's known as "a blackhole". If you are born here, it's unlikely you will be able to leave. A lot of people here think they won't be able to make a change but I want to prove statistics wrong. If this small ...↓involvement could potentially help save the little bit of our planet left, you best believe I will contribute to the cause. The greenhouse effect has been an underlying issue for decades and some people out there (including my own father, who is one of the smartest men I know) who do not belive in global warming. I won't sit here and pretend I am a scientist and know everything about this topic but I know enough to say this: we have been slowly killing our planet and people have been denying it for years. I don't understand why this is something we have to FIGHT for. There are holes in our atmosphere and if we don't start acting now or a few years into the future, not only will we kill our planet, but we will also kill us humans, every animal that walks this earth, and every plant that helps us breathe and provides us food. Some people might make the argument and say, "But that's such a stretch. And if that were to happen, it's gonna be years and years from now and I most likely will be dead by the time that happens so I don't really care." Those people may be right that it will take years for it to settle into place for it to be that extreme, but does that matter? You're telling me you don't want to preserve this beautiful place that gives us life not only for you but your family that WILL be here after you are gone? It's disgustingly selfish. I am 18 years old and even I might be around for the collapse of civilization and this planet but that is not my issue. My issue is that this is my home and I want to keep her safe. This place has given me the gift of beautiful experiences and I want to save that for myself and everyone else who will walk this earth. Some people will say this is "cheesy" or "corny" but that- doesn't make it any less true: there is no planet B. We have this earth and that is it. Why would you want to kill the only place we have called home? Just because you want to generate unoriginal videos and fictional characters saying horrible things, talk to a robot you think is your lover, or steal art from others just to call it your own, and then when you get caught you say, "Well it's because I can't draw" or "I have a disability". One of my favorite TikTokers and YouTubers is legally blind and he wrote and drew his own children's book. I know not everyone can do that but that is not my point. There are so many disabled artists and writers and creators. And if your argument is that you can't do it or you do not have the artistic ability to do it then there's a piece of advice I can give you: learn. Like everyone else on this planet. You do not get to sit back and steal others work just because you are to learn to learn and grow. You are killing our planet, plagiarizing, and not willing to work on yourself just because you "can't do it." You are lazy and ignorant. Grow up and look outside, read the news, look at current events, and SEE what your ignorance is doing to the planet, others, and YOURSELF.

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Comment From: Olivia Vanzandt

7/04/26 @ 9:18 PM

Please don't do this it will threaten the community's safety that are near by

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:17 PM

Hello, I am not a resident of New Mexico, but I am deeply concerned about the health of New Mexicans because of this project. AI data centers are not good for the environment and hurt not just the environment but also the people living there. What I ...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:17 PM

This must not be approved in order to protect the health of the residents of Santa Teresa, Sunland Park and El Paso. The prevailing winds blow from west to east and all those toxic fumes will be carried down to these areas.

"The public should be giv...↓

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Comment From: Karhianna Anderson

7/04/26 @ 9:17 PM

Fuck the 1%

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:17 PM

Protect our air!!!

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Comment From: Elizabeth Fritch

7/04/26 @ 9:16 PM

Drinking water is more important than building another data center. 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 gra...↓

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Comment From: Thomas Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:16 PM

Profit from dismantling earth

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 co...↓ntrols 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: Abril Ayala

7/04/26 @ 9:16 PM

This is so wrong, stop proceeding with this project.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

7/04/26 @ 9:15 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. 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: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:15 PM

AI will soon be eaten up by itself in the near future—destroying the environment and the natural habitats of countless animals and plants is going to be futile, and ruin the lives of everyone around the world. My friend almost passed out from heatstr...↓

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Comment From: William Boles

7/04/26 @ 9:15 PM

This data center will destroy the environment in which it's placed in and will cause significant damage to the ecosystem and water resources where it is.

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Comment From: Anónimo Anónimo

7/04/26 @ 9:15 PM

This is something wrong! Having to find out about this through TikTok is disturbing, why isn't this going around with older people that don't use social media. Citizens of New Mexico should know what would happen to their home and the future of New M...↓

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Comment From: Randy Rosario

7/04/26 @ 9:14 PM

Approving this permit would be government-sponsored environmental racism as residents of Doña Ana County are already disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution. The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the...↓

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Comment From: Sophia Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:14 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: Jesenya Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:14 PM

STOP PROJECT JUPITER!! Our future children will have to live in a world where they don't know what some animals are. WE ARE KILLING THE PLANET

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Comment From: Kiki Todorovic

7/04/26 @ 9:13 PM

Dear NMED staff, My name is Kiki Todorovic. I live in Calgary, Alberta, 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 Environment Departmen...↓

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Comment From: Benjamin Marquez

7/04/26 @ 9:13 PM

As a proud New Mexican, I say that Project Jupiter and Yucca Growth Infrastructure as a whole are not for New Mexico. They do not have a place in our state. If the Air Quality Bureau of NMED and NMED truly has the health of NM as their mission, they ...↓

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Comment From: Collin King

7/04/26 @ 9:13 PM

I am a resident of Dona Ana county and I strongly oppose the development of any data center in the county. This is a resource scarce area. Data centers serve only disconnected billionaires and their AI fever dream; a solution without a problem. They ...↓

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Comment From: Novain Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:12 PM

Hello i live in Texas which is not to far away from where y'all are building "Project Jupiter".This project will release a lot of Carbon dioxide in the air.If your not aware our air will be polluted because of this data center.I have relatives who ar...↓

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Comment From: Kat Kemp

7/04/26 @ 9:11 PM

New Mexico is a beautiful state that needs to be protected and already suffers some of the lowest poverty rates in our nation. Do you understand that the effects of this data center alone can ruin the entire state. We cannot afford for the cost of li...↓

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Comment From: Adriana Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:11 PM

WE ARE GOING TO DIE BECAUSE OF THIS

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: Aleisha Thaxter

7/04/26 @ 9:10 PM

This will be become a disgusting use of land, the citizens of Mexico deserve better then to have their home treated as sacrificial land for an unnecessary product that won't help in the betterment of their lives. Project Jupiter will simply dry up wa...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:09 PM

The people should matter more than the out-of-state profits going to already money gorged companies. There is already an illegal dumping epidemic and this will only worsen things. The right action is to deny this air permit and listen to people with ...↓

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Comment From: Grecia Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:09 PM

We don't need any more data centers. AI is being handled and released at a faster rate than us knowing how far it can go against humanity. Not only that but the tragic risks it has against wildlife and our natural environments including resources we ...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:08 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.

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: Elliott bass

7/04/26 @ 9:08 PM

We don't have enough water in new Mexico for this data center, the Rio grande was never dry when i was a a kid but now it's empty every day. We as a state can not sustain a massive data center like this one

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Comment From: Adam Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:07 PM

Dear NMED staff, My name is Adam Berman . I live in Albuquerque , 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 Environment Department to r...↓

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Comment From: Daphnée Berard

7/04/26 @ 9:07 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: Paola Garay

7/04/26 @ 9:06 PM

I am a resident of San Salvador and asking hat 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...↓cure 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.
"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: Yazmin Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:06 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 non-attainment 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.

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: Shayla Menton

7/04/26 @ 9:04 PM

We can live without AI. AI uses up many of our natural resources that can be difficult or near impossible to replace if we run out. God did not create us for us to destroy his creations.

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Comment From: Sarah Chavez

7/04/26 @ 9:04 PM

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Comment From: Alex boba

7/04/26 @ 9:03 PM

I am writing to express my strong opposition to Project Jupiter. The proposed AI data center poses a severe threat to both the environment and the local community in New Mexico. The estimated annual release of 10 million tons of CO2 is unacceptable a...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 9:02 PM

AI is slowly killing everything we deem precious to us. Without protecting the valuable resources we already don't have a lot of, the earth will collapse. It's not a statement of "what if" it's a matter of time. Unfortunately Gen Z is left to clean u...↓

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Comment From: Luna Arnold

7/04/26 @ 9:00 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. 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.

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: Chase Perkins

7/04/26 @ 8:57 PM

Carbon footprint was a term created by big companies to make civilians feel responsible for climate change while these corporations build these data centers that produce more carbon dioxide than even a city #stopprojectjupiter

The proposed design ha...↓s 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: Coenraad Adema

7/04/26 @ 8:15 PM

This developer and project jupiter are misrepresenting the real burdens on clean water, a precious resource in our state, and the actual energy management. Impact on our lives are too great to burden our state, environment and children

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Comment From: Sanija Bernate

7/04/26 @ 8:10 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. 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 puto 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.
"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: Layla wiley

7/04/26 @ 7:51 PM

I have lived and lived in New Mexico my entire life and am devastated to hear that it's natural beauty is gonna be destroyed to build another data center. I am tired of the use of AI and the way it is destroying my country. Please do not build this d...↓

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Comment From: Ari Molina

7/04/26 @ 7:21 PM

Hello i am Ari Molina, I'm writing to oppose the building of this data center.I worry about water usage about the fuel cell batteries.Overall, I think it's not something we need in new mexico

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

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Comment From: Margaret Levi

7/04/26 @ 7:20 PM

Stop project jupiter
Stop project Jupiter. Our planet is going through a climate crisis as this only adds on to that problem. We only have one planet to live on. We must protect it with everything we've got. Please stop Project Jupiter.

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Comment From: Francisco Santos

7/04/26 @ 7:19 PM

Dear NMED staff, My name is Francisco Santos, 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 Environment Department to reject Yucca Growth I...↓nfrastructure, LLC's air permit application for the YGI Microgrid in Doña Ana County. 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. The Chihuahuan Desert borderlands are not a barren dump site for Bloom Technologies to test their experimental technologies. Santa Teresa should not serve as ground zero for Bloom Technologies to scale their toxic technologies. Fuel cells generate hazardous waste. Fuel cells filter out sulfur and other contaminants in the methane stream. Jupiter claims that any pollution from opening and changing the filter media in the desulf canisters is exempt from air permitting regulations (because there is less than 1000 lbs/yr). Bloom was fined for improper hazardous waste handling in Pennsylvania and Maryland. In 2020, Bloom was fined $210,000, and then $1,161,000. The project's proposed fuel cell powered grid is also concerning for many reasons: * It would still produce a high level of greenhouse gas and toxic pollutants. * This technology generates toxic waste, and the process for handling this waste is still unclear. * Fuel cell technology or a centralized waste system has never been tried at this scale. * Surrounding communitieis' air will be severely impacted by this development. I urge the NMED to reject YUCCA Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC's air permit application for the YGI Microgrid. I ask the department to please hold a bilingual public hearing near the Santa Teresa community, so that residents can learn about the risks associated with fuel cell technology. Sincerely, Francisco Santos

"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: Destiny Rockwell

7/04/26 @ 7:18 PM

I strongly discourage the placement of any data center or ground plans that involve the use of NM natural resources. The non attainment zone this project will house infrastructure on is quite obviously government sponsored environmental racism. There...↓

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Comment From: Gemi Mathew

7/04/26 @ 7:17 PM

Dear NMED staff, My name is Gemi. I live in Texas, 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 Environment Department to reject Yucca Gro...↓

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Comment From: Noah Searcy

7/04/26 @ 7:16 PM

A.i data centers are not worth human lives. Let alone the amount of water it will take away from new mexico residents, this alongside blooms troubling past with illegal dumping i believe we shouldn't let them steal our resources for their gain.

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Comment From: antrea Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 7:15 PM

FUCK YOU ALL BILLIONAIRES AND FUCK YOUR DATA CENTERS TOO

"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 ...↓

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Comment From: Yadira Carlos

7/04/26 @ 7:14 PM

I am a resident of Texas 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 und

"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: Yhima price-dunnum

7/04/26 @ 7:10 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. TThis 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: River Stratigi

7/04/26 @ 7:09 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 tra...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 7:08 PM

I am a resident of New Mexico and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I have lived here 25 years and I am proud to be from this state. The conservation of our home was guaranteed by the action of those who came...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/04/26 @ 7:03 PM

Considering something similar could be done without the same amount of ecological devastation predicted and probably do it more eco-friendly and efficiently or better yet just not done at all to help the globe slow down and see where we want to go as...↓

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Comment From: Tanya Pacheco

7/04/26 @ 6:52 PM

I am strongly opposed to the data center being proposed in Santa Teresa or anywhere in New Mexico. Data centers require too much water to be sustainable in the desert without risking the people and ecosystem that exist here. They also cause detrimen...↓

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Comment From: Tracy Rackauskas

7/04/26 @ 6:37 PM

Hi! I'm writing to express my opposition to the proposed Air Quality Construction Permit for the Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC (YGI Microgrid) facility in Doña Ana County. I request that NMED deny this application and schedule a formal public hear...↓

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Comment From: Brandy Barraza

7/04/26 @ 6:36 PM

Dear NMED staff,
My name is Brandy. I live in Santa Fe, 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 Environment Department to REJECT Yuc...↓

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Comment From: Csenge Bíró

7/04/26 @ 6:16 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: Xev Zavala

7/04/26 @ 6:14 PM

I oppose the disastrous Project Jupiter proposal because it is of no benefit to the planet, the animals, our the human race as a whole. Project Jupiter is detrimental to our planet and all living creatures.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 6:11 PM

No data centers. We are smarter than AI and can live without it. There is no reason to put our planet and clean drinking water at risk because people are too stupid to think.

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Comment From: Sinaiah R-G

7/04/26 @ 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: Eziolachi Eruchalu

7/04/26 @ 6:08 PM

My name is Zizzi and i believe that no ones lives should be endangered for the sake of data centres. Our climate, which is already reaching its limit at a faster scale than previously thought, should not be pushed further for the sake of AI!! We rely...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 6:06 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: Orlando Ulibarri

7/04/26 @ 6:06 PM

Please stop Project Jupiter. When will enough finally be enough? Parts of the Rio Grande have already run dry. Seeing a river that has sustained people, wildlife, and communities for generations disappear in places should break all of our hearts. Tha...↓

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Comment From: Richard Locke

7/04/26 @ 6:05 PM

Deny any and all Project Jupiter permit applications. The developers do not care about NM or its residents, only their own personal profits. They are misleading the public and so far the government has allowed it. Stop this now. We do not need more A...↓

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Comment From: Josie Hess

7/04/26 @ 6:04 PM

There is already so much going on in our world and we do NOT need to hurt it more with unnecessary sh*t. 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 virtua...↓

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Comment From: Dominic Menzl

7/04/26 @ 6:03 PM

Im a resident in Georgia, and Im asking that you do not allow that data center to be built, no one wants these besides big corporations, and they have no benefits to the environment.

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Comment From: Ali Romero

7/04/26 @ 6:02 PM

Data centers are absolutely unnecessary and disastrous for the entire planet. This will have an impact on the entire planet. We are begging and screaming, "DO NOT BUILD THIS DATA CENTER"!

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/04/26 @ 6:02 PM

I am a citizen in Arizona and I believe that we should not be building data centers here, or anywhere in the United States. We are already running out of water and have poor air quality. Data centers not only use excessive amounts of water, but the n...↓

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Comment From: Rafael Gonzalez

7/04/26 @ 6:01 PM

That is pollution for TX, NM and Ciudad Juarez

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Comment From: Andreena xx

7/04/26 @ 6:00 PM

DO NOT!! we dont need ai! and ai dosent need us it dosent benefit the world or climate at all if you care about the world and its humans and its future evil mosnters wont come in to build this data center.

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Comment From: India Wilson

7/04/26 @ 6:00 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.

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Comment From: Isabel Blanco

7/04/26 @ 5:57 PM

i hope something will change.

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Comment From: Alissa Cost

7/04/26 @ 5:57 PM

Don't. Sop ruining our planet. Hear the cry of the earth, the limited water, the fresh air, the green trees. Stop this horrible act and save us all.

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

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Comment From: Ella Lakes

7/04/26 @ 5:56 PM

We do not need AI! This campaign— which blatantly uses brow washing to try and gain the respect and support of NM residents— is unnecessary and secretive. Building a massive data center in an area that already struggles to meet air quality standards,...↓

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Comment From: Roy Villanueva

7/04/26 @ 5:55 PM

I am concerned about the air and water quality. I don't want my electricity bill to go up neither.

"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...↓

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