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

Comment From: Justin Rodriguez

7/04/26 @ 12:32 PM

I DONT WANT A FUTURE WHERE I DONT HAVE ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER

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Comment From: Raelyn Kindt

7/04/26 @ 12:31 PM

I am a resident of South Dakota and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. The amount of damage this will cause WILL be global. I am a farmer, and we are already struggling with crop growing. Any possible future i...↓

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Comment From: Caitlin Talty

7/04/26 @ 12:30 PM

Reject air quality permit application!

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

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:30 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: Angela Marquez

7/04/26 @ 12:30 PM

STOP THIS PROJECT! SAVE THE PLANET! ITS THE ONLY ONE WE HAVE.

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Comment From: Paul LeFevre

7/04/26 @ 12:30 PM

Hello, I've just been informed of the lowering of emissions and safety standards for this building project, and am wholeheartedly against it. Please do not sell the health of our environment so billionaires can make a few more bucks, and line pockets...↓

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Comment From: Timothy Cambridge

7/04/26 @ 12:29 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 du...↓

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Comment From: Alondra Hernández

7/04/26 @ 12:29 PM

Project Jupiter threatens the safety and well being of my community and environment. I do no agree with this data center construction and would like to advocate for its denial. New Mexico needs clean water and healthy residents , not an artificial in...↓

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Comment From: Bethany Reilly

7/04/26 @ 12:29 PM

I'd like to voice my strong opposition to the granting of an air quality permitting action for the YGI Microgrid, and anything that is in support of Project Jupiter. Our desert community cannot sustain a project that threatens to drain our already st...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:29 PM

I am a resident of ______ 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 se...↓

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Comment From: Rory Shroyer

7/04/26 @ 12:29 PM

I am still so young and have so many things I want to do in life. I have so many hopes and dreams for my future. I want to live that future. I want to live in a future where I can achieve my goals without worrying about my livelihood. I want to live ...↓

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Comment From: Alexie smith

7/04/26 @ 12:28 PM

rs 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 giv...↓

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Comment From: Rina Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:28 PM

I really don't want our world to suffer more than it already is.

"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 sh...↓

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Comment From: Tajai n/a

7/04/26 @ 12:28 PM

I am a resident of new mexico and I am asking for you to 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 ...↓

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Comment From: Nox Ponce

7/04/26 @ 12:28 PM

As a young person so lives in new Mexico project Jupiter is NOT gonna be this amazing thing. It will actually be the opposite it's gonna cost of water pollution , noise pollution and overall disturbe are communities. We know that the people behind pr...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:28 PM

We do we need all this? We're completely fine without ai. If anything, let the public decide, we should have 60 days to review it. And why is this even being approved? Does NMED not realise how much pollution this'll increase? It's stupid. If this pe...↓

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Comment From: Edgar Edgar

7/04/26 @ 12:27 PM

There's no need for a data center, WE NEED MORE DATA CENTERS. WE ARE PERFECTLY FINE HAVING NON, ITS DESTROYING OUR PLANET

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Comment From: Matteo Manchev

7/04/26 @ 12:27 PM

Our planet is suffering enough already. There is absolutely no valid reason as to why this data center should continue to be built as it would only lead to more destruction, pollution and other devastating consequences.

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Comment From: Kylie Seo

7/04/26 @ 12:26 PM

We don't need more data centers� Really respect what you guys are doing to stop this project. I hope we can save our planet before it's too late.

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

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Comment From: Allison Hernandez

7/04/26 @ 12:26 PM

stop project jupiter!! we can live without ai but we cannot live without the earth. this project will use already limited water resources hear in New Mexico.

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Comment From: ava larson

7/04/26 @ 12:26 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: Maribel Hernandez

7/04/26 @ 12:25 PM

Health impacts of air pollution & hazardous waste I am a resident of Albuquerque, NM and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. The impact of air pollution and hazardous waste will be devastating and irreversible....↓

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Comment From: Grace McKenna

7/04/26 @ 12:25 PM

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 undisclo...↓

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Comment From: Ariah Sandle

7/04/26 @ 12:24 PM

I respectfully oppose Project Jupiter and urge decision-makers to reconsider moving forward with this project. I am concerned about its potential impacts on the community, including environmental, economic, and quality-of-life effects. Before any fur...↓

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Comment From: Lasha Kirker

7/04/26 @ 12:24 PM

With the data centers, air quality will worsen and I don't want that. I want to be able to breath; I want future generations to have a good planet to live on and not suffer. We should be caring for and tending to Earth not exploiting her for profit, ...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:24 PM

This project is dangerous, destructive, and inhumane!! Save our water and STOP the data center!

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:24 PM

Give the public an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably. Deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit because they cannot be trusted given Bloom Energy's history of...↓

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Comment From: Enja Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:23 PM

Health impacts of air pollution & hazardous waste I am a resident of Canada 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 raisin...↓g 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 i

"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: Anahi Morales Pabon

7/04/26 @ 12:23 PM

We do not need these data centers and Ai to live!! What we need is clean drinking water and a world where we can breathe and live not be in survival mode. We cannot do this to our planet. Think about everyone you have ever loved DYING because there i...↓

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Comment From: Sienna-Rose D'Adore

7/04/26 @ 12:22 PM

I am a human, not a robot. I need water, not oil -chloe:3 years old

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Comment From: Francesca Reyes Fabbri

7/04/26 @ 12:21 PM

I am not in support of this project. It is wrong and is destroying the planet as speak. AI is a destructive tool that deteriorates the environment all around us. We should not let this happen and most definitely should not let this become a project i...↓

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Comment From: Saniya Dickerson

7/04/26 @ 12:20 PM

I am a resident of Fresno 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 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.

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.
"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 @ 12:19 PM

We get nothing out of destroying other animals lives and homes but for some reason we still do it. These animals probably don't even know we exist and we're still going to kill them for the sake of our own lives, which if I may add are horrible for t...↓

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Comment From: Samatha Kranthijanya

7/04/26 @ 12:18 PM

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Comment From: Rae sumitomo

7/04/26 @ 12:18 PM

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Comment From: A AA

7/04/26 @ 12:18 PM

As a New Mexico resident, I would like to keep our homes, and nature life safe and livable. The data center puts our land in more danger. We are already dealing with extreme climate crisis. We don't need any Ai Data Centers anywhere. Please do not le...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:17 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: Kathleen Pastran Santistevan

7/04/26 @ 12:17 PM

I'm against Project Jupiter due to its impact on the environment. We need to push back on this because we are already in a drought! People should use their brains more than they use AI!

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:16 PM

New Mexico is already facing huge drought concerns and has been for awhile now. We do not want nor need this in New Mexico or anywhere for that matter. Our ecosystems need us to advocate for keeping it healthy and sustainable. Adding more data center...↓

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Comment From: lilly mejia

7/04/26 @ 12:15 PM

i know this data center should not be built because it will be so bad for the air quality in new mexico and horrible for water in our state it would have a massive negative impact on our whole environment

"The public should be given an additional 60...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:14 PM

Dear NMED staff, I am an anonymous commenter from Canada 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: Panthera Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:13 PM

Con mi perspectiva como país latinoamericano, es evidente cómo los impactos ambientales de este tipo de proyectos afectan no solo al ecosistema, sino también a toda la sociedad y a la población, incluyendo a los políticos, ya que el daño suele costar...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:12 PM

Dear Board of NMED, I am writing to you to urge you to stop the progress of Project Jupiter. In addition, these requirements should be met before any plans go forward. The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air ...↓

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Comment From: Zoe Holt

7/04/26 @ 12:11 PM

WE DON'T NEED AI. 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 @ 12:11 PM

FUCK AI DATA CENTERS AND FUCK THOES WHO FUND IT. YOUR KILLING US ALL AND YOU WILL PAY THE PRICE

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Comment From: Lillianna Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:10 PM

Dear NMED staff, My name is Lillianna. I live in Australia, 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 ...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:10 PM

Stop these damn data centers we don't need 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 outr...↓

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Comment From: Isabelle Paul

7/04/26 @ 12:09 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: Lisa Woods

7/04/26 @ 12:09 PM

I don't support project Jupiter because the massive data centres will polute the water and release a lot of noise the can scare off wildlife. Even though the water does eventually come back to the atmosphere, it takes an awful long time. The wind blo...↓

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Comment From: Natalie Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:08 PM

Project Jupiter is bad because we don't need anymore data centers. It's a waste to build more and continue killing earth

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

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:07 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: JaKyla Bankston

7/04/26 @ 12:07 PM

I am a resident of atl,GA 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 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. 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: Claire Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:06 PM

NO MORE DATA CENTRES ENDANGERING OUR PLANET

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

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Comment From: Natalie Kelnerova

7/04/26 @ 12:05 PM

I am a resident of Czech requesting 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 f...↓

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Comment From: milla bussey

7/04/26 @ 12:03 PM

I urge you to stop Project Jupiter. I live in Finland, far from the proposed site, and I'm still deeply concerned about what this project represents. We're in a climate crisis, and building massive new data centers for AI, with their enormous energy ...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:02 PM

Dear NMED staff, I urge the NMED to outright 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 residen...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:02 PM

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. STOP BUILDING 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 ...↓

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Comment From: Ash Estrada

7/04/26 @ 12:02 PM

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 c...↓

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Comment From: Ely Hernadez

7/04/26 @ 12:01 PM

ai is destroying everything i just want to live in a future we're everything is okay. "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 p...↓

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Comment From: Aubs Marohn

7/04/26 @ 12:01 PM

Project jupiter is killing humanity. There is absolutely no reason for there to be a giant data center that pollutes the environment.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 12:00 PM

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Comment From: Charlie M

7/04/26 @ 12:00 PM

No one wants AI, the human mind will always be exceptional. "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 b...↓

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Comment From: Richard McClay

7/04/26 @ 12:00 PM

I oppose issuance of the air permit for the Yucca Growth Infrastructure fuel cell construction. Based on a review of the application, it only addresses emissions from the fuel cells used to power the data center. The application does not include emer...↓

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Comment From: Sailor Jewett

7/04/26 @ 11:59 AM

This will have global effects on our already hurting environment and will impact the local community detrimentally. This is such a heartless and evil thing to do.

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Comment From: Rosalee Sargeant

7/04/26 @ 11:59 AM

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: Lucas Tiede

7/04/26 @ 11:58 AM

We the people of New Mexico are opposed to the development of data centers without proper oversight or representation. Project Jupiter must not continue for concerns over environmental damage and community wellness. Additionally, the influx of ai-gen...↓

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Comment From: Mia Winston

7/04/26 @ 11:57 AM

Can we stop killing the earth? Please and thank you.

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Comment From: Giulia Maria Tonti

7/04/26 @ 11:56 AM

I don't live in the American continent, yet I know how it feels when you see your home being encroached. In an era when we are fighting pollution, this project is an insult to all our efforts against carbon dioxide being released in our air every day...↓

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Comment From: Cormac Findlay

7/04/26 @ 11:56 AM

This is just stupid having clean water at a price people can actually afford vastly outweighs using AIs but people are to much of a sheep to do anything about it and it's slowly killing our planet I don't see a single reason on how this can benefit u...↓

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Comment From: Sarah Ottow

7/04/26 @ 11:56 AM

Stop Project Jupiter. The community didn't ask for this and it is extremely harmful to the environment.

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/04/26 @ 11:56 AM

Protect the earth and stop project jupiter! its slowly killing our mother earth. We did not need a.i before but why need more a.i now? a.i is also getting all our water supplies to cool their systems. STOP PROJECT JUPITER AND STOP RUINING EARTH

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Comment From: emily Tena

7/04/26 @ 11:56 AM

in disclosed 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...↓

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Comment From: Emil Krasich

7/04/26 @ 11:56 AM

I am strongly opposed to the environmental and economic impacts of project Jupiter. Our state already has a water problem and we have no need of yet another data center consuming our life-needed water, increasing already record temperatures, pollutin...↓

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Comment From: Jasmine Jasmine

7/04/26 @ 11:55 AM

The air quality permit application should be denied given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazardous waste.

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Comment From: Edgar Antillon

7/04/26 @ 11:55 AM

We dont need this, stop data centers in new mexico

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Comment From: Andy B

7/04/26 @ 11:54 AM

I'm only 24. I shouldn't feel like my future is already gone. I shouldn't feel like my career is dead in the water. I shouldn't feel like the oceans will boil. I should feel like AI will become our evil overlord. We survived this long without AI, we ...↓

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Comment From: Wyatt Jones

7/04/26 @ 11:54 AM

This is simply not needed. We have lived without generative AI plants for years now. Also think of all the small communities who drink out of the rivers water. Water insecurity is already bad enough around the world, we do not need to make it worse. ...↓

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Comment From: Giulia Maria Tonti

7/04/26 @ 11:54 AM

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Comment From: Lynette Quintana

7/04/26 @ 11:53 AM

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...↓

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Comment From: lily carbary

7/04/26 @ 11:53 AM

we do not need ai or more data centers we should be focusing in putting effort towards things we NEED right now or at least an eco friendly way to make the data centers.

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Comment From: Carlos Maxwell Jr.

7/04/26 @ 11:53 AM

With the alarming rate at which the world is changing already, I do not think another AI data center is helpful in the slightest bit and in fact will only ever hurt the entire world. For the sake of humanity grow a heart and take a stand for someone ...↓

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Comment From: Matilda Penna

7/04/26 @ 11:52 AM

Please, we are responsible for what happens to our planet and moving on with this project will not only affect those living near it but everyone else as well. If this is accepted by the government, let them know it is their responsibility for partici...↓

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Comment From: Kinga Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 11:52 AM

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: Kay jones

7/04/26 @ 11:51 AM

A proposal, such as this one, that relies on computer simulation modeling instead of actual, measured air pollution at scale is invalid, untrustworthy, and far from what residents of Doña Ana County and New Mexico deserve. What data was used to train...↓

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Comment From: Baltzar Kristoffersson

7/04/26 @ 11:51 AM

Stop project Jupiter it's going to destroy our enviorment and take away water from communities.
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 control...↓s 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: Wyatt wilkes

7/04/26 @ 11:51 AM

Stop this

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Comment From: Franco Araceli

7/04/26 @ 11:50 AM

Project Jupiter is not safe for our community. It will cause harm not good, this data center does not need to be built. I cannot stress enough on how much harm this will cause for our environment. We need clean water, clean air, and Dear NMED staff, ...↓

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Comment From: Hannah Hew

7/04/26 @ 11:50 AM

Are data centers more important than living beings?

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/04/26 @ 11:49 AM

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 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: Honey lopez

7/04/26 @ 11:49 AM

We do NOT want Oracle and Open Al sacrificing our communities to make tech-billionaires richer. We were doing fine without ai. why do we need it so badly all of a sudden? We keep saying that WE. DO. NOT. WANT. AI. Our environment is already on the ve...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 11:49 AM

the new project called project Jupiter's issues(world wide or in NM) Dona Ana's air quality does not meet the federal government rules and that's why the residents has been impacted disproportionately.i would love to mention weather temperature and g...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/04/26 @ 11:48 AM

I am devastated upon hearing about the plans to build this data centre. It will destroy the environment and will most definitely contribute to the quickening of global warming. We only have one planet and it's so important to reserve it and it's life...↓

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Comment From: Katherine siemers

7/04/26 @ 11:48 AM

This project is extremely dangerous to not only human kind and the animals but the whole earth itself. Plenty of river's are being dried out giving animals in that area no water nearby. We don't need a data center in fact we need to lower the amount ...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/04/26 @ 11:48 AM

save our planet. The proposed design has an individual exhaust stack on each fuel cell, of which there will be 2,275. It would be inefficient to place monitors and controls on each individual stack and there are NO proposed pollution controls on any ...↓of these stacks. How, then, will this project show evidence of their compliance with emissions limit requirements under Title V? Has there been or will there ever be upstream fuel testing of methane gas to anticipate the composition of these fuel cells' emissions? How exactly will NMED enforce emissions standards without direct, long-term, continuous monitoring? Or isolate their deleterious impact on air quality without an accurate assessment of localized pollution?

A fuel cell can continue to generate electricity or maintain operating temperatures while experiencing catalyst degradation which causes a massive spike in the release of carbon monoxide or Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). This project would need to centralize the 2,275 individual stack emissions into an exponentially smaller number of exhaust systems so that Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) installed on these central exhaust systems can provide real-time, accurate data about operational compliance. As it is, this design plan completely fails to provide monitoring conditions that are "practically enforceable" under 20.2.70.302.B NMAC.

A proposal, such as this one, that relies on computer simulation modeling instead of actual, measured air pollution at scale is invalid, untrustworthy, and far from what residents of Doña Ana County and New Mexico deserve. What data was used to train these models? When and where was this data collected? What proportion of those involved in the development of this model have, at any time, received money from the corporations involved? How much? If NMED allows group testing for this project, 99% of the exhaust stacks at this facility will never be physically tested during the entire life of the Title V permit. This creates an unmonitored loophole that violates the Clean Air Act's mandate for continuous compliance.

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

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

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Comment From: Catherine Laughlin

7/04/26 @ 11:47 AM

Please deny this permit. Protect our precious water, air quality, and New Mexico's future! NM does not need polluting, harmful data centers (or dishonest "grassroots" paid media campaigns from Project Jupiter! Please note that they also appear to be ...↓

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Comment From: Benjamin Orrego

7/04/26 @ 11:47 AM

Project Jupiter will be noting but detrimental to the planet and the people living on it as a whole please don't go forward with it
A fuel cell can continue to generate electricity or maintain operating temperatures while experiencing catalyst degrad...↓ation 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: Jeremiah Henderson

7/04/26 @ 11:47 AM

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Comment From: Geoegi Kostadinov

7/04/26 @ 11:47 AM

This ai data center thing is terrible. Terrible for environment terrible for the regions water terrible for the air . TERRIBLE FOR THE EARTH. We must not allow this to happen.
A fuel cell can continue to generate electricity or maintain operating tem...↓peratures 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: Valentine anonymous

7/04/26 @ 11:46 AM

THEY PREFER MAKING MONEY ON AI RATHER THAN SAVE HUMANITY WITH THAT SUPERFICIAL MONEY. 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: Jessica morrison

7/04/26 @ 11:45 AM

STOP PROJECT JUPITER
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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