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

Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:55 PM

We don't need data centers anymore!! How much more land is being taken over by big corporations that make false promises to the community! Our planet is going through an insane drought. This doesn't benefit the community; it only benefits big corpora...↓

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Comment From: Amelya Martinez

7/04/26 @ 5:54 PM

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...↓

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Comment From: n/a n/a

7/04/26 @ 5:54 PM

WE DO NOT WANT NOR NEED A NEW DATA CENTRE!!! YOU'RE KILLING THE PLANET AND EVERYONE IN IT! PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES ARE ALREADY SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THE LIMITED WATER SUPPLIES BECAUSE OF THE DATA CENTRES! WE DON'T WANT AI IT'S DESTROYING OUR PLANET! ST...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:53 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: Robert Wojcikiewicz

7/04/26 @ 5:53 PM

As a resident of Las Cruces New Mexico I am asking that you deny yucca infrastructure's air quality permit. Adding 10 million tons of carbon dioxide to our air along with a vague estimate of toxic emissions to our active and long-term non-attainment ...↓

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Comment From: Sam Grice

7/04/26 @ 5:53 PM

I don't want the world to die so I'm gonna stop this

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Comment From: anonymous n/a

7/04/26 @ 5:53 PM

ur trying to kill us bro and your killing yourself too you can't eat money when the time comes

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Comment From: Tarcsa Bence

7/04/26 @ 5:52 PM

The construction of this data centre would be detrimental to the environment.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:51 PM

Dear NMED staff, My name is Kat Newton. I am writing because I am concerned about the risks and harms Project Jupiter poses to New Mexicans. I am submitting this comment in order to urge the New Mexico Environment Department to reject Yucca Growth In...↓

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Comment From: Andrea anon

7/04/26 @ 5:50 PM

The proposal of Project Jupiter is a massive harm to or climate and environment, as it will be one of the largest data centers in the world. The project seems it wants to exhaust the stack of every fuel cell. With the exhaust of fuel cells tons of ca...↓

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Comment From: Annabelle Bach

7/04/26 @ 5:48 PM

Stop the madness of putting AI Data centers everywhere! It's not needed!

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Comment From: Jadelynn Turner

7/04/26 @ 5:48 PM

the lives of the civilians and animals who live near where the data center is planned to be built. Depend on the fresh water, clean air, stable weather conditions, and resources around them to stay alive and healthy. If you choose to continuity to bu...↓

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Comment From: Marco Mitjans Gonzalez

7/04/26 @ 5:47 PM

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

"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: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:46 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...↓pplication for the YGI Microgrid in Doña Ana County. 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. 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.

"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: Karen Navarrete

7/04/26 @ 5:46 PM

STOP PROJECT JUPITER FOR THE SAKE OF OUR PLANET

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Comment From: Annonymous Annonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:45 PM

I oppose this permit

"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: Jack Polansky

7/04/26 @ 5:45 PM

Simple, our freshwater is limited. Data centers run our freshwater dry. Freshwater runs the entire economy. A human necessity should not be a luxury, but that's what it will turn into if we have less water.

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Comment From: Madeleine Mattheis

7/04/26 @ 5:45 PM

stop messing up our earth before it's too late. 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: Ethan Hansen

7/04/26 @ 5:44 PM

WE NEVER NEEDED AI. EVERY LIVING THING HOWEVER HAS ALWAYS NEEDED CLEAN WATER AND AIR. YOU'RE KILLING THE WORLD.

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Comment From: Tanea Quintana

7/04/26 @ 5:44 PM

Project Jupiter should not be built because its potential costs and risks may outweigh its expected benefits. The project could have serious environmental consequences, including the destruction of natural habitats, increased pollution, and the loss ...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:43 PM

we can live without ai and if yall do this we wont have an earth to live on, this shit is scary snd SOME people wanna grow old in peace and die peacefully and not get their lives taken bc of people ruining our planet then WE HUMANS have to pay the co...↓

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Comment From: Mirabel aka

7/04/26 @ 5:43 PM

Dear NMED staff, My name is Mirabel Aka. I live in Ireland, 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 Infrastructure, LLC's air permit application for the YGI Microgrid in Doña Ana County. I am an African immigrant from Nigeria that happens to a very tropical region. The last heat wave was so horrible due to my region already being tropical that I cannot even begin to imagine what life will be like to be beside such a horrible project that Jupiter is. Not only will you be negatively impacting the residents and nature of New Mexico but you will also affect the world with ur horrible machines. Humans are smart and intelligent we DO NOT NEED UR AI. We can research information for ourselves as we have been doing so. Ur Ai will affect our thinking skills, our environment, our future and children's future and the planet that was kind enough to give us a place to survive. The project's proposed fuel cell powered grid is 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 communities' 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. The whole world knows what this AI will do and so do you. Sincerely, Mirabel Aka
"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: Zury Esqueda Mora

7/04/26 @ 5:42 PM

THIS IS THE ONLY PLANET WE HAVE, STOP AI.

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Comment From: Keimarri Grant

7/04/26 @ 5:42 PM

This is the type of world you want your kids to live in? Actually is this the type of world that you want to live in??

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

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Comment From: Alexa Taylor

7/04/26 @ 5:40 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 raising my children here knowing they have a safe and secu...↓

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Comment From: perla tovias

7/04/26 @ 5:40 PM

stop project jupiter

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:39 PM

I AM ACTIVELY AGAINST PROJECT JUPITER. I SHOULD'NT HAVE TO SAY FUCK AI, BUT FUCK AI! It has no societal value or benefits. IT RAPES OUR LAND OF PRECIOUS RESOURCES LIKE WATER. The noise pollution can cause psychosis. Not to mention air pollution. It's...↓

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Comment From: Toni Masters

7/04/26 @ 5:38 PM

Fuck data centers, it's destroying our climate!

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Comment From: Kamaya Thompson

7/04/26 @ 5:38 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...↓

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Comment From: Felicia Sanchez

7/04/26 @ 5:38 PM

New Mexico does not need Project Jupiter!!! I want our children to have water not a data center. How will this data center affect air and water quality? What ground and air pollutants will NM be exposed to if Project Jupiter becomes a reality? How wi...↓

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Comment From: Colin Pizey

7/04/26 @ 5:37 PM

Please stop this project. It poses much harm to local environment and community.

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Comment From: Madalyn Kelly

7/04/26 @ 5:36 PM

Stop this from going ahead!!!

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Comment From: Liliana Fravel

7/04/26 @ 5:35 PM

Fuck these 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...↓

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Comment From: Kirliandenisse rivera

7/04/26 @ 5:35 PM

STOP USING AI

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Comment From: Aruzhan Armanovna

7/04/26 @ 5:34 PM

We need to stop project jupiter. Idc what other say

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:33 PM

The project's proposed fuel cell powered grid is 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. ...↓

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Comment From: alex n/a

7/04/26 @ 5:33 PM

our world is dying

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:32 PM

This is not okay! Protect the land

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Comment From: Maddison Gines

7/04/26 @ 5:29 PM

I am a resident of Gorham, Maine. I am very lucky to live in a state where greenery is common everywhere I go. But, others are not. States like Missouri are suffering from loss of water or water pollution due to data centers being created. Billionair...↓

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Comment From: Sophie Chávez

7/04/26 @ 5:29 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: Lee n/a

7/04/26 @ 5:25 PM

This is wrong we need to stop it! 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 Blo...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:23 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: Isaiah Hernandez

7/04/26 @ 5:20 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: Rebekah Rendon

7/04/26 @ 5:18 PM

I am a resident of NM and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I live here with many generations of my family and this is our home. I want to continue raising my children here knowing they have a safe and secure...↓ future. That future is under threat with this proposed air quality permit. A change to fuel cells has minimal impacts on the suffering we will endure as a result of the gas plant's air pollution. To add 10 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution and a vague estimate of toxic emissions to our active and long-time nonattainment zone would be nothing short of blatant environmental racism. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we have received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. We are already breathing some of the most compromised air in the country. It is unacceptable to invite a new source of hyperscale air pollution into our communities. The carbon dioxide pollution alone will heat our atmosphere at a much faster pace and promote the formation of even more ground-level ozone. Last summer, a 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: Anna Moore

7/04/26 @ 5:15 PM

Santa Teresa Elementary and High School are located within five miles of this project site. 96% of students at the high school are hispanic. There are also day care centers located within miles of this site. This is an environmental injustice to thes...↓

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Comment From: C G

7/04/26 @ 5:14 PM

I live in northern Georgia. There is already a data center that is being built about an hour from me. Hopefully this trend will not continue, but if it does, there will likely be a data center in every state in 50 years max. If the building of these ...↓

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Comment From: anon anon

7/04/26 @ 5:14 PM

I believe that Project Jupiter is harmful to the planet and should not be done. The planet is already facing irreparable damage due to AI. If this project is continued, there will be effects on the land and those who inhabit. Some of these effects in...↓

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Comment From: Rosie Walker

7/04/26 @ 5:14 PM

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 l...↓

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Comment From: Emma Albrecht

7/04/26 @ 5:12 PM

We were fine before ai, this is truly just greed. 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 ou...↓

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Comment From: Layla Marshall

7/04/26 @ 5:12 PM

DO NOT ADD ANYMORE DATA CENTERS. IT IS ACTIVELY DESTROYING OUR PLANET. THE COMMUNITY BEGS FOR AN AI FREE WORLD.

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Comment From: Ariel Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:11 PM

We do not need this project, this project holds greater negatives than it does positives for the community and for the land, this is not a need or want it is something that is actively hurtful the environment around it and is speeding up the effects ...↓

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Comment From: Jackie Grande

7/04/26 @ 5:10 PM

Stop this

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Comment From: Amirah Lockett

7/04/26 @ 5:10 PM

Project Jupiter is another project that prioritizes the wealthy in a guise of "innovation" that will have a negative effect on the environment. Placing Project Jupiter in an area with already existing air quality issues will only exacerbate these pro...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:10 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. Furthermore, concentrating 10M metric tons of climate-warming CO2 into 275 acres - exceeding the combined emi

"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: Angelica Hernandez

7/04/26 @ 5:10 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.

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Comment From: Gillian Taylor

7/04/26 @ 5:08 PM

There is no sustainable way for this project to be built. It is widely unpopular, and constituents know that this greenwashed rebrand is just another way to build industry on top of disadvantages populations, whose air quality is already below safe p...↓

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Comment From: Klaire Anderson

7/04/26 @ 5:08 PM

We only have one earth. The greed of multimillionaires and the 1% will put an end to life and humanity as we know it. I urge that this development is reconsidered in order to protect our home.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:08 PM

STOP PROJECT JUPITER!! are you guys insane?? When the last tree dies, and the last drop of water runs out. YOU. will realize that we CANNOT. EAT. MONEY. Do you not see the climate change that is HEAVILY. affecting us?!?!??? Instead, if you were to pu...↓

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Comment From: Hayden Hoffman

7/04/26 @ 5:08 PM

Honestly it does not matter where I'm at, this project needs to be denied and stopped this is wrong in every way possible. We don't need Ai, everyone was doing fine without it and getting through life. All Ai and this stupid stuff the government want...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:07 PM

High schoolers in Texas and any of the 50 states learn in their biology classes (and even social/history classes) the utter importance of keeping the environment and local ecosystems well by acting in the name of sustainability. Project Jupiter is th...↓

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Comment From: Morgan Wood

7/04/26 @ 5:07 PM

stupidest idea ever. i've never known humans to display such braindead behavior. fuck project jupiter, and fuck its creators too. and fuck your "creator" ‼️‼️

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Comment From: Chloe Holdren

7/04/26 @ 5:06 PM

We do NOT need ai, we NEED water!! We NEED renewable energy, we do NOT need another nonrenewable energy source, especially on this scale! Please, stop! It's only june and our community itself is already in stave 3 drought, I can't imagine what a data...↓

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Comment From: Morgan Miller

7/04/26 @ 5:06 PM

Project Jupiter is absolutely unnecessary and harmful to the wellbeing of the planet, and every person and animal that inhabits it.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:06 PM

we dont need ai data centers and we especially dont need the "biggest" one.
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: Angelina Ruiz

7/04/26 @ 5:05 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 given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazar...↓

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Comment From: Corey Paylor

7/04/26 @ 5:04 PM

I don't support building AI data centers anywhere. The planet is already failing, we need to help it, not hurt it further. Data centers do nothing but ruin the environment and AI does nothing except make people stupid. Stop this madness.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:04 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: Denis n/a

7/04/26 @ 5:04 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. 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: Jada Culclager

7/04/26 @ 5:03 PM

EVERYONE can live without ai. Everyone WON'T live if this project is finished.

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Comment From: Jackson Orange

7/04/26 @ 5:02 PM

Stop killing the earth!

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Comment From: Anon Anon

7/04/26 @ 5:01 PM

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...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 5:01 PM

New Mexico Environment Department should give the public an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright given Bloom E...↓

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Comment From: Lily french

7/04/26 @ 5:01 PM

If we've lived this long without AI, we can keep going. There is NO need for ai in our world.

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Comment From: Akili Smith

7/04/26 @ 5:00 PM

please ban project jupiter! we can live without ai.
project jupiter shouldn't be allowed. it is only going to cause harm and damage to our world. there's already enough things going on that hurt our planet daily. project jupiter will not helpz

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Comment From: Stella Horn

7/04/26 @ 5:00 PM

I am a resident of Seattle WA and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I live here with many generations of my family and this is our home. I want to continue raising my children here knowing they have a safe an...↓d secure future. That future is under threat with this proposed air quality permit. A change to fuel cells has minimal impacts on the suffering we will endure as a result of the gas plant's air pollution. To add 10 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution and a vague estimate of toxic emissions to our active and long-time nonattainment zone would be nothing short of blatant environmental racism. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we have received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. We are already breathing some of the most compromised air in the country. It is unacceptable to invite a new source of hyperscale air pollution into our communities. The carbon dioxide pollution alone will heat our atmosphere at a much faster pace and promote the formation of even more ground-level ozone. Last summer, my 7 year old suffered a grand mal seizure while on the playground at school because the extreme heat led to electrolyte imbalances. My brother works outside everyday without shade or rest breaks and has nowhere to keep his insulin cool. I can barely pay my electricity bills in the summer as it is. We cannot afford more intense heat. The other toxic air pollutants are extremely dangerous–many of them at very low levels. How am I supposed to send my kids to school knowing what they are breathing in? Knowing it can cause permanent brain damage or breathing complications before they have had a chance to grow up. Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and undisclosed chemicals into our public landfills, and we will just have to wait until somebody notices? Our county has and continues to face an illegal dumping epidemic so how can I be sure that these systemic oversight failures we have locally won't continue and expand to include this dangerous and experimental fuel cell operation. A fine for illegal dumping does not undo damage or its spread once our aquifer and soils are contaminated. It also will not re-capture the volatile chemicals that are released into the air when hazardous waste is improperly stored and disposed of. My family's health and safety should be worth more than the profits of out-of-state corporations. The only defensible options moving forward are to deny this air permit or you must hold a public hearing in-person in Santa Teresa with a component for virtual participation. Materials and the hearing itself must be translated into Spanish and meet any other accessibility needs requested by community members.

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Comment From: Anon Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 4:59 PM

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

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Comment From: Anon Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 4:58 PM

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Comment From: Carlynn Niamoth

7/04/26 @ 4:58 PM

We can live without AI. You guys already have enough money, stop taking away our resources.

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: Mya Matlock

7/04/26 @ 4:57 PM

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Comment From: Sebastian Hernandez

7/04/26 @ 4:56 PM

I am Sebastian Hernandez and I would like to ask that you would deny the data center that will be made/"Project Jupiter". It will us up most of the clean drinking water that we don't have to spare. Please do not take this project any further for it w...↓

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Comment From: Gabriella Chigozie

7/04/26 @ 4:56 PM

Health impacts of air pollution & hazardous waste I am a resident of Mexican Hat, USA 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 conti...↓nue raising my children here knowing they have a safe and secure future. That future is under threat with this proposed air quality permit. A change to fuel cells has minimal impacts on the suffering we will endure as a result of the gas plant's air pollution. To add 10 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution and a vague estimate of toxic emissions to our active and long-time nonattainment zone would be nothing short of blatant environmental racism. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we have received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. We are already breathing some of the most compromised air in the country. It is unacceptable to invite a new source of hyperscale air pollution into our communities. The carbon dioxide pollution alone will heat our atmosphere at a much faster pace and promote the formation of even more ground-level ozone. Last summer, my 7 year old suffered a grand mal seizure while on the playground at school because the extreme heat led to electrolyte imbalances. My brother works outside everyday without shade or rest breaks and has nowhere to keep his insulin cool. I can barely pay my electricity bills in the summer as it is. We cannot afford more intense heat. The other toxic air pollutants are extremely dangerous–many of them at very low levels. How am I supposed to send my kids to school knowing what they are breathing in? Knowing it can cause permanent brain damage or breathing complications before they have had a chance to grow up.Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and undisclosed chemicals into our public landfills, and we will just have to wait until somebody notices? Our county has and continues to face an illegal dumping epidemic so how can I be sure that these systemic oversight failures we have locally won't continue and expand to include this dangerous and experimental fuel cell operation. A fine for illegal dumping does not undo damage or its spread once our aquifer and soils are contaminated. It also will not re-capture the volatile chemicals that are released into the air when hazardous waste is improperly stored and disposed of. My family's health and safety should be worth more than the profits of out-of-state corporations. The only defensible options moving forward are to deny this air permit or you must hold a public hearing in-person in Santa Teresa with a component for virtual participation. Materials and the hearing itself must be translated into Spanish and meet any other accessibility needs requested by community members.

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Comment From: Skylar Mitchell

7/04/26 @ 4:56 PM

The proposed design has an individual exhaust stack on each fuel cell, of which there will be 2,275. It would be inefficient to place monitors and controls on each individual stack and there are NO proposed pollution controls on any of these stacks. ...↓How, then, will this project show evidence of their compliance with emissions limit requirements under Title V? Has there been or will there ever be upstream fuel testing of methane gas to anticipate the composition of these fuel cells' emissions? How exactly will NMED enforce emissions standards without direct, long-term, continuous monitoring? Or isolate their deleterious impact on air quality without an accurate assessment of localized pollution? A fuel cell can continue to generate electricity or maintain operating temperatures while experiencing catalyst degradation which causes a massive spike in the release of carbon monoxide or Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). This project would need to centralize the 2,275 individual stack emissions into an exponentially smaller number of exhaust systems so that Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) installed on these central exhaust systems can provide real-time, accurate data about operational compliance. As it is, this design plan completely fails to provide monitoring conditions that are "practically enforceable" under 20.2.70.302.B NMAC. A proposal, such as this one, that relies on computer simulation modeling instead of actual, measured air pollution at scale is invalid, untrustworthy, and far from what residents of Doña Ana County and New Mexico deserve. What data was used to train these models? When and where was this data collected? What proportion of those involved in the development of this model have, at any time, received money from the corporations involved? How much? If NMED allows group testing for this project, 99% of the exhaust stacks at this facility will never be physically tested during the entire life of the Title V permit. This creates an unmonitored loophole that violates the Clean Air Act's mandate for continuous compliance.

We know the pollution approximations provided are based on an extremely lazy testing methodology and while we were not told whether these 4 tests were even done on-site or during peak temperatures, we can safely assume the applicants cut corners here as well in an attempt to fast track this approval. As I write this, Project Jupiter is draining an undisclosed amount of water from our shared aquifer on a daily basis. Given the statistical invalidity of their pollution estimates, approving this air permit under any circumstance would be to allow this project to introduce unmitigated and undisclosed hazards into our air without consequence.

Children attending Santa Teresa Elementary School will sit innocently, every day, LESS THAN ONE MILE from this pollution. Three other schools, an elder care center, and three public parks sit within around 4 miles of this project. Deny this air permit. Gambling with the fragile health of our children and elders would be a complete defilement of the authority vested in you.

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Comment From: Mirren Russ

7/04/26 @ 4:55 PM

Dear staff of the NMED,

I write to you to in order to strongly urge you to reject "Project Jupiter," Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC's air permit application for the YGI Microgrid in Doña Ana County.

This project poses extreme danger to the peopl...↓e, wildlife, and entire environment of New Mexico. New Mexico is a beautiful state, and this proposed data center will not make it more beautiful. It will mar the land, leech it dry of its health and resources, and leave it a shell of its former self. There is no worse deed than harming children, but this project, if accepted, will do just that without remorse. This proposed AI data center will be dangerously close to local schools and the residential areas in which they live, while continuously polluting the area and draining large amounts of water that New Mexico cannot afford to give away.

This pollution is not just limited to air pollution, which in itself will be devastating to the health of the many children and adults who live in this area. AI data centers also impose extreme noise pollution, which is similarly extremely harmful to the health of residents and wildlife. Noise pollution can cause exponentially high risk of cardiovascular and metabolic health risks (including high blood pressure and heart attacks), extreme loss of sleep due to constant and extremely loud noise (which in itself leads to a multitude of health issues), and hearing loss, just to name a few. These dangers will be pressed upon adults and children, for no better reason than more money for those far up. It is imperative that Project Jupiter is rejected due to it placing the health and even the lives of all residents, including innocent children.

Furthermore, the companies behind this project refuse to even acknowledge anything that paints this project in a poor light. They are ultimately dishonest and have been caught in the act of submitting false comments that claim to be in support of Project Jupiter, under the names of other individuals without their consent. They then refused to comment on the matter when questioned. These companies are facing lawsuits regarding this issue and a number of others. Any project that apparently "aids" the people should not be in such a position to begin with. Even still, Bloom Energy, one of the companies behind this project, has a history of illegal dumping of hazardous waste. Even now, the procedure of how the emissions from this project will be handled, should it be accepted, are unclear. It is clear that the companies leading this project do not have the better interest of the people in mind, no matter what they may say.

The only thing that they have the better interest of is having deeper pockets. And for it, they are willing to sacrifice the health and possibly the lives of residents, including children, who will constantly be exposed to the pollutants produced by the proposed AI data center.

For these reasons, myself and many others are writing to you to encourage you to completely reject Project Jupiter. If the permit is not denied outright, a hearing must be held in Santa Teresa, in both Spanish and English, with an option to participate virtually, so that all members of this community may participate equally.

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Comment From: Zoe Tomaro

7/04/26 @ 4:54 PM

They are ruining counties, families, states. A data center went up overnight in Knoxville without anyone ever knowing, not even the government. If you are in office right now, working as a government worker, stop standing around and take action becau...↓se you have the voice we don't. Nobody should want this, even if you're money hungry. You see these people at this time in this country are struggling to even make ends meet! Living paycheck to paycheck having to make the choice between feeding their kids or paying the electric bills. These data centers are targeting poor and low income areas to build on. Do we ever think about the impact that those data centers make on the communities? These data centers leave these communities with 24hr artificial light flooding across the skies making it harder for people to sleep, I've seen people's water come out of their faucets brown, pink, and other gross colors that should never be going into homes. Multiple communities have voiced their concerns on this matter and are enraged to say the least. So many people move to America for the American dream. This is not a dream, it's a nightmare that is coming alive more and more by the second. We should not allow investors that are in China to come in and create these extremely harmful data centers when they aren't even citizens of America. Isn't that funny? I thought that you had to be an American citizen to own land. But I guess it doesn't count for all of those illegal immigrants that come to America trying to build a suitable life for their families and get their papers because they never got that chance back in their country. Instead of helping them, we just throw them out like they're pests. It is so hard to get into the system and become a citizen. I know someone who has been trying for 6 years and still hasn't gotten in. But we allow these foreign investors to do this to our beautiful land. Project Jupiter, if taken into action, will be extremely harmful to the environment,releasing over 10 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, which can be harmful to humans because we breathe in oxygen that plants release, not carbon dioxide. Do you really think plants can keep up with these huge data centers? I always had the funny thought when I was younger, what if we run out of oxygen? Thinking it would never come true, but I'm 15 now and it seems as my life may be ending before it starts. This isn't all this data center is doing. The Rio Grande is drying up before summer has even started. Do we really think that this is okay? Right now, think about how you feel about this. There are so many negatives compared to the little little positives. Humanity was fine before AI, before the internet. We never needed any of this. AI, even though it's been around for such a small amount of time, has became extremely harmful to adults, and growing children. We are losing our critical thinking skills rapidly. I look at students around me in class, because they're always on their phone, they're struggling to complete simple questions and problems in class. Do we really need this expansion of AI that is doing more harm than good just because the government's eyes turn green at the thought of money? Look past your greed now, see how horrible this would be, open your eyes. We don't need AI generated videos or anything of the sorts when we have perfectly good man made videos. We don't need an AI overview every time we go to search something up. There are plenty of resources that we can look into for information. These data centers are so extremely unnecessary and that's why I fight, when I'm enraged every time I hear about a new data center, why I sign petitions and write comments. I fight because this is wrong to do to the people of America, treating the citizens worse than the illegals! This should be stopped, now. Through this, I have a voice. I will not let another data center go up. America is counting on you. Make the right choice.

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Comment From: Kiana Avila

7/04/26 @ 4:53 PM

I want to protect the environment from the data centers and to stop them from destroying our environment also to foster a healthy and prosperous NM for present and future generations.

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Comment From: Felix Cabrera

7/04/26 @ 4:52 PM

Health impacts of air pollution & hazardous waste I am a resident of PA 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...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/04/26 @ 4:50 PM

These things we do not need. All it's doing is destroying the world we have for greed and money. They sell our lands that we're free back to us for money, etc, quit letting them control us. STOP THE USE OF AI.
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Comment From: Vern Stewart

7/04/26 @ 4:49 PM

I am a resident of pagosa springs Colorado 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 h...↓ave a safe and secure future. That future is under threat with this proposed air quality permit. A change to fuel cells has minimal impacts on the suffering we will endure as a result of the gas plant's air pollution. To add 10 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution and a vague estimate of toxic emissions to our active and long-time nonattainment zone would be nothing short of blatant environmental racism. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we have received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. We are already breathing some of the most compromised air in the country. It is unacceptable to invite a new source of hyperscale air pollution into our communities. The carbon dioxide pollution alone will heat our atmosphere at a much faster pace and promote the formation of even more ground-level ozone. Last summer, my 7 year old suffered a grand mal seizure while on the playground at school because the extreme heat led to electrolyte imbalances. My brother works outside everyday without shade or rest breaks and has nowhere to keep his insulin cool. I can barely pay my electricity bills in the summer as it is. We cannot afford more intense heat. The other toxic air pollutants are extremely dangerous–many of them at very low levels. How am I supposed to send my kids to school knowing what they are breathing in? Knowing it can cause permanent brain damage or breathing complications before they have had a chance to grow up. Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and undisclosed chemicals into our public landfills, and we will just have to wait until somebody notices? Our county has and continues to face an illegal dumping epidemic so how can I be sure that these systemic oversight failures we have locally won't continue and expand to include this dangerous and experimental fuel cell operation. A fine for illegal dumping does not undo damage or its spread once our aquifer and soils are contaminated. It also will not re-capture the volatile chemicals that are released into the air when hazardous waste is improperly stored and disposed of.

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

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Comment From: anonymous anonymouis

7/04/26 @ 4:46 PM

destroy all 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.
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Comment From: Shawn marshall

7/04/26 @ 4:46 PM

Stop ai center Gonna ruin the world and make us the next extinction

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Comment From: Courtney Jones

7/04/26 @ 4:45 PM

We as a society need our water more than we need ai, please stop the nonsense. Ai has no real life benefits, and it may seem like the world is full of water, but it's not. Please put an end to this ridiculous task.
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Comment From: Cooper smith

7/04/26 @ 4:45 PM

Hi, my name is cooper, I am 15 years old and I want to take action against this project. As a 15 year old going into my sophomore year of high school, I want to say I'm scared for my generations future. Every AI data center hurts our planet, more and...↓

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Comment From: Anna Dias

7/04/26 @ 4:44 PM

WE DON'T NEED MORE AI DATA CENTERS. But we do need clean water and nature, if you really think that you are going to be safe when the consequences of this shit start to show, bad news, you're not that important for these companies nor the billionaire...↓

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Comment From: Esther Louis

7/04/26 @ 4:43 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" i agree with this statement from the article. I feel like with the big scheming companies giving influen...↓

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Comment From: Josephine Conklin

7/04/26 @ 4:42 PM

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Comment From: Sophiya n/a

7/04/26 @ 4:42 PM

stop project Jupiter

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Comment From: Rain n/a

7/04/26 @ 4:41 PM

Stop the Jupiter project, it's not doing anything to help us it'll only make our situation worse. The land in that area where project Jupiter is taking place is already dried out.

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Comment From: Ingrid Barrera

7/04/26 @ 4:41 PM

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

7/04/26 @ 4:40 PM

We do not need AI or data centers. I find it to be so disrespectful of these people to disregard all of the water they are using up, that of which we need to survive, on things that are not required.
New Mexico Environment Department should give the ...↓

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Comment From: Emma C

7/04/26 @ 4:39 PM

We do not need this new data center. There are so much that we already have that we don't need, if this gets built its gonna cause so much problems to this earth and we won't be able to stop it. We are already in a drought so please don't make this.

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