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

Comment From: Amelia Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:47 PM

Please, are eco system is completely at a lost the way we are going. Keep destroying trees and water systems we will have no way of living or surviving because all of our natural resources are slowly becoming more and more scarce and destructed.

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Comment From: Dunja n/a

7/03/26 @ 6:46 PM

I am so scared for our future.

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: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:46 PM

STOP PROJECT JUPITER

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Comment From: Shanice Somda

7/03/26 @ 6:46 PM

I do not live near the plant nor do i have any family there but from a human to another we cannot continue with this project. I firmly believe people who fund or demand these projects are part of higher society or are part of the higher class in the ...↓

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Comment From: Clifton White

7/03/26 @ 6:45 PM

We do not want more ai!! Let alone a massive data center that will only exacerbate the problems we are already facing in NM. Ai is both ethically and economically dubious there is no reason for us to suffer for something that will never benefit us. S...↓

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Comment From: Nikola Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:45 PM

I am deeply troubled by the future of our planet and our climate, as summers continue to get hotter every year and I physically see the water level differences in my local area. I hope our political representatives take real action to stop Project Ju...↓

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Comment From: Shakira illiams

7/03/26 @ 6:45 PM

10 million tons of carbon dioxide will cause so much harm to everything around it. Nobody wants another ai data center.

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Comment From: Anon Anon

7/03/26 @ 6:45 PM

A fuel cell plant this size has never been constructed before. PJ's power plant would be 1,000x larger than the biggest fuel cell power plant Bloom Energy has ever built. It is dangerous to the residents of Dona Ana County and beyond. Please do not ...↓

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Comment From: Mia Maisa

7/03/26 @ 6:45 PM

stop endangering the ecosystem, our righteous sources with your selfless actions.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:44 PM

Please do not continue to build this Ai data center. It does nothing but take desert land to many animals for 1. It's going to pollute our air and take our water when we already struggle for water in this desert heat. Our generation and future genera...↓

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Comment From: Amy Mc Menamin

7/03/26 @ 6:44 PM

My name is Amy and I am a 17 year old student in Ireland. This summer was the hottest summer ever recorded in our history and it will only continue to get hotter due to climate change. I am young, my life is only just beginning and yet my future, my ...↓

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Comment From: Anthe Wouters

7/03/26 @ 6:43 PM

NO NO NONO. Nobody wants this. Nobody asked for this. We have enough. You only want money. But we are AGAINST.

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Comment From: josie josie

7/03/26 @ 6:43 PM

this is disgusting and simply greedy. how much of the world must we destroy until we realize we cannot eat or breathe money.

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Comment From: Jayla Clifton Ellis

7/03/26 @ 6:42 PM

Please stop this global warming is happening and getting worse

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Comment From: Nikki S

7/03/26 @ 6:42 PM

I am a resident of Calne, England 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 saf...↓e 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: Christopher Ciepluch

7/03/26 @ 6:42 PM

I dont see why we need more data centers. We dont need more artificial intelligence we need less. If people rely on things like chatgpt or gemini to do things for them than they will not build the skills themselves. A.I. is only not a reliable source...↓

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Comment From: ben over

7/03/26 @ 6:42 PM

NO ONE WANTS THIS OR SUPPORTS, i am ben and this will greatly effect the community in only negative ways, we need 60 more days to vote.

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:42 PM

Pollution and climate problems. Project Jupiter and the Data center will cause a lot of harm to this planet. The environment and the climate will be completely messed up. We don't need AI as much everyone thinks we do. People lose the capacity of thi...↓

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Comment From: Erica L

7/03/26 @ 6:42 PM

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Comment From: andilyn perry

7/03/26 @ 6:41 PM

please stop adding data centers we need water we need habitats for our animals and you people want to rip it away from us and them and it's going to kill us all slowly. the air feels thick and the ground feels more dry than usual and the global warmi...↓

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Comment From: Zofia Jakubasz

7/03/26 @ 6:41 PM

we dont need ai

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Comment From: Krzysztof Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:41 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: Jessica Wilson

7/03/26 @ 6:41 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: Lucy Madams

7/03/26 @ 6:40 PM

This is absolutely disgusting. Stop trying to waste the resources others need to survive simply to make money. AI OUT!

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Comment From: Pola .

7/03/26 @ 6:40 PM

this is an enviromental disaster.

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 acr...↓oss 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: Smith Izabella

7/03/26 @ 6:39 PM

Please do not do this, humanity will be eradicated if we keep destroying earth.

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: Shania Ambrosie

7/03/26 @ 6:39 PM

I am completely against Project Jupiter, I believe that our world is in its most vulnerable state and that if more projects like this find its way to be produced. We will have no Earth to live on. Global Warming is only getting worse and it's not goi...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:39 PM

Project Jupiter should be stopped because we don't even need AI that much. We can live without it. This project is also a climate disaster. Barely anyone wants these data centers to be made anyway.

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Comment From: Jessica Boyd

7/03/26 @ 6:39 PM

AI was already a hindrance to people's every day lives when it came to their jobs. Now that these data centers are being built, the environment in towns which they reside, are becoming less flush. The air is being filled with millions of pollutants, ...↓

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Comment From: Alice Quale

7/03/26 @ 6:39 PM

I reject Project Jupiter's use of water or methane gas to power their AI data center. We are in one of the largest droughts our state has been witness to. We don't have anymore to give. Get out of our state!

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Comment From: April McNiece

7/03/26 @ 6:38 PM

I do not want Project Jupiter to proceed. Please do not allow any data centers be built in NM. We do not have the water to support it. I will be sure to vote for representatives that do not allow data centers to build in NM.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:38 PM

WE NEED WATER TO SURVIVE NOT "DATA" CENTERS. WHO ARE YOU GOING TO SURVEIL IF WE ARE ALL GONE FROM LACK OF WATER? WHO WILL USE YOUR ALLEGED AI? HAVE SOME HUMANITY AND STOP YOUR DISGUSTING GREED.

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Comment From: Adolfo Chin

7/03/26 @ 6:38 PM

AI IS NOT NEEDED FOR SURVIVAL, BUT WATER IS.

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 em...↓issions 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.

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Comment From: John Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:38 PM

I live in Sweden and I know that the ai data centers will make our climate worse by doing stuff like making our water levels ride because the construction will put out a bunch of bad gases and will make the layer of green house gases go out of balanc...↓

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Comment From: Hanna n/a

7/03/26 @ 6:38 PM

WE DONT NEED AI.

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

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Comment From: Wavey Villanueva

7/03/26 @ 6:38 PM

We don't need a data center in the middle of a desert. This is detrimental to the environment and to our water supply. Additionally, the economic bubble for AI data centers is bound to pop soon, and we will be left with wasted money and wasted space....↓

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Comment From: Alicia Crawford

7/03/26 @ 6:37 PM

People over profit. Your money doesn't matter, the people do. The climate matters, not your bank account.

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 to...↓ns 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.

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Comment From: Ethan deBoer

7/03/26 @ 6:37 PM

Project Jupiter needs to be stopped. We do not need AI, it brings no good to us. It's been proven to give false information and it can't even properly generate a human hand. Why bother to waste an unreasonable amount of water and release a horrible a...↓mount of carbon dioxide into the air every single day. We are facing so much damage due to climate change, that's our fault. We need to fix it, we need to give back to the earth, and we need to use less technology. Where they wish to put this data centre is used to have a beautiful river that is now nearly completely dried up before summer has really begun. The centre would dry it up completely, that is incredibly sad. This is a horrible decision that cannot be made. There has also been toxic waste dumped in this area, do you know about the Niagara Falls incident? A town who thought they lived safely suddenly started realizing weird deformity's in all newborns. Mothers saw that many others children had the same issues, which isn't normal at all. People had also been dying faster than normal. They did an investigation and it was revealed that the government knew of the waste that had been dumped for years, but cleared it and built a town anyway. Toxic chemicals were still everywhere, first on the ground and in the water. Then they built the town and the chemicals spread into everything. This county you want to put the data centre is also heavily impacted by environmental pollution. This land, habitat, and ecosystem is collapsing like many other places around the world that are not just homes to us. There are so many animals facing extinction because of us. We need to stop and help them. If we seriously are the most intelligent species why do we continue to hurt them? Shouldn't we used our intelligence to help and support them? We should be focused on eliminating useless forms of technology, especially Ai, we should be planting more trees to restore forests, we should lower the amount of deforestation that occurs globally, We should be more mindful about how much water we use, we should make illegal to not recycle, we should find ways to reduce landfills and keep stuff out of our oceans, we should find a way to save the arctic. There's hundreds of amazing things we could do for this earth that we don't. We need our earth not Ai. When the last tree falls, the last river is poisoned, plants can no longer grow, and animals have been wiped out. You will realize the damage that this centre along with all centre's and additional supports to Climate Change and environmental pollution and impacts have caused. Where will go after that? We will never be able to fix that. Please, if you care at all for the environment, ecosystems, habitats, animals, our earth, and our futures then do not build this data centre.

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Comment From: Mason Genualdo

7/03/26 @ 6:37 PM

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 test...↓

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Comment From: Igor Kasztelan

7/03/26 @ 6:36 PM

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:35 PM

We never needed AI ...why now?????? This is going to make the climate worse. We are going to die because of every addition of carbon in the world

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: Simrat Brar

7/03/26 @ 6:35 PM

Our Earth is being destroyed by the riches, how ironic is that?

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: Veronica Veronica

7/03/26 @ 6:35 PM

WE CAN LIVE WITHOUT AI!!!

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:34 PM

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

We know the pollution approximations provided are based on an extremely lazy testing methodology and while we were not told whether these 4 tests were even done on-site or during peak temperatures, we can safely assume the applicants cut corners here as well in an attempt to fast track this approval. As I write this, Project Jupiter is draining an undisclosed amount of water from our shared aquifer on a daily basis. Given the statistical invalidity of their pollution estimates, approving this air permit under any circumstance would be to allow this project to introduce unmitigated and undisclosed hazards into our air without consequence. Children attending Santa Teresa Elementary School will sit innocently, every day, LESS THAN ONE MILE from this pollution. Three other schools, an elder care center, and three public parks sit within around 4 miles of this project. Deny this air permit. Gambling with the fragile health of our children and elders would be a complete defilement of the authority vested in you.

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:34 PM

We can live without AI. We only have one planet and we need to take care of it. Please 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 monito...↓rs 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: Samah Hossain

7/03/26 @ 6:34 PM

How many have to die before you listen?

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Comment From: Hadlee Smith

7/03/26 @ 6:33 PM

End project Jupiter. Why continue something that is not a need and is killing 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.
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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:33 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: zofia dopieralska

7/03/26 @ 6:33 PM

I am a resident of Wroclawand 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: Ellie Mae

7/03/26 @ 6:32 PM

I am a resident of the UK 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 non-attainment zone would be nothing short of blatant environmental racism. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we have received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. We are already breathing some of the most compromised air in the country. It is unacceptable to invite a new source of hyperscale air pollution into our communities. The carbon dioxide pollution alone will heat our atmosphere at a much faster pace and promote the formation of even more ground-level ozone. Last summer, my 7 year old suffered a grand mal seizure while on the playground at school because the extreme heat led to electrolyte imbalances. My brother works outside everyday without shade or rest breaks and has nowhere to keep his insulin cool. I can barely pay my electricity bills in the summer as it is. We cannot afford more intense heat. The other toxic air pollutants are extremely dangerous–many of them at very low levels. How am I supposed to send my kids to school knowing what they are breathing in? Knowing it can cause permanent brain damage or breathing complications before they have had a chance to grow up. Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. 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: Ally flores

7/03/26 @ 6:32 PM

FUCKKKK DATA CENTERS WE DONT NEED THEM.

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: Harrison Martin

7/03/26 @ 6:32 PM

you're killing the future for money you people disgust me and you don't care because you will die soon

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: Scarlett Vasquez

7/03/26 @ 6:32 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: Eliyaas Aidid

7/03/26 @ 6:31 PM

I am against project jupiter. I do not agree with the proposals of destroying our climate. It's destroyed enough as it is and i am sure we as a whole won't be able to see past 2035 on the way we're heading. It's disgusting.

The public should be give...↓

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Comment From: amanda hollingsworth

7/03/26 @ 6:31 PM

we dont beed ai. we need water, cooler temperatures, nàture preserves, an earth to live on. we are already in a crisis. everyone should care. we all live here. we all share the same planet.

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Comment From: chen xuan

7/03/26 @ 6:31 PM

do not deplete our limited water 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: Albert Anzhe Chen

7/03/26 @ 6:31 PM

We should stop this project completely.

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: Zoe .

7/03/26 @ 6:30 PM

We do not need ai. We do not need more data centers. The world is in a fragile state and we need to be doing everything we possibly can to help the earth, not ruin it for money. This will put everyone at risk.

The public should be given an additiona...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:30 PM

I don't have much say in this but I believe that humanity as a whole comes first. A data center that uses more water than anything else in this planet and creates more pollution from one source ever seen shouldn't be just something we create. Our ina...↓

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Comment From: Akira Fitzgerald

7/03/26 @ 6:30 PM

WE DON'T EVEN NEED DATA CENTERS LIKE THAT. STOP AI! STOP AI!

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

7/03/26 @ 6:30 PM

I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I live here with many generations of my family and this is our home. I want to continue raising my children here knowing they have a safe and secure future. That future is un...↓der threat with this proposed air quality permit. A change to fuel cells has minimal impacts on the suffering we will endure as a result of the gas plant's air pollution. To add 10 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution and a vague estimate of toxic emissions to our active and long-time nonattainment zone would be nothing short of blatant environmental racism. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we have received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. We are already breathing some of the most compromised air in the country. It is unacceptable to invite a new source of hyperscale air pollution into our communities. The carbon dioxide pollution alone will heat our atmosphere at a much faster pace and promote the formation of even more ground-level ozone. Last summer, my 7 year old suffered a grand mal seizure while on the playground at school because the extreme heat led to electrolyte imbalances. My brother works outside everyday without shade or rest breaks and has nowhere to keep his insulin cool. I can barely pay my electricity bills in the summer as it is. We cannot afford more intense heat. The other toxic air pollutants are extremely dangerous–many of them at very low levels. How am I supposed to send my kids to school knowing what they are breathing in? Knowing it can cause permanent brain damage or breathing complications before they have had a chance to grow up.
Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and undisclosed chemicals into our 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. Please allow an additional 60 days to review me and my peers public comments about this project. The air quality permit application should be denied given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazardous waste. If the permit is not denied, a public hearing needs to be held in Santa Teresa, in both English and Spanish, with an option to participate virtually. Approving this permit would be government-sponsored environmental racism as residents of Doña Ana County are already disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution. For years, Doña Ana County has been called a 'nonattainment' zone— this means our air quality does not meet federal government rules.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:29 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 given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazar...↓

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Comment From: Agnieszka Owczarek

7/03/26 @ 6:29 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: Caitlyn Fitton

7/03/26 @ 6:29 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 desecration of the authority vested in you.

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Comment From: Emma keijzer

7/03/26 @ 6:29 PM

Protect our earth!!!!!!!!

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Comment From: Mishaal Fatima

7/03/26 @ 6:28 PM

Symptoms already and the consequences are real. Dont build the data center, stop destroying us and yourself. My cousins can't live normal lies. They are constantly nauseous, throwing up and have puffy eyes because of the air index dropping. Sometimes...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:28 PM

I respectfully oppose the proposed Project Jupiter data center. While I understand the potential economic benefits, I'm concerned about its long-term impacts on our community as a whole, not just the people living nearby. Large data centers can requi...↓

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Comment From: Sphairia Garcia

7/03/26 @ 6:28 PM

Save our planet. The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright given Bloom Energy's histo...↓

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Comment From: Katelyn Orozco

7/03/26 @ 6:28 PM

I wish to enjoy my future with a healthy and better planet, and allowing this permit to pass and thus allow for project Jupiter is going to be detrimental to the planet. As an environmental organization, you should be aware that this project poses gr...↓

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Comment From: Nora Rose

7/03/26 @ 6:28 PM

We need to take action against project jupiter.

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

7/03/26 @ 6:28 PM

The complexity of this issue demands that time for comments be extended for the public. The use of water for cooling this AI/data center will result in a loss of 3/4 of the water used as evaporation and New Mexico will never get it back. We are a DES...↓

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Comment From: Lauren Harteg

7/03/26 @ 6:27 PM

Hi, I know I am young, but even I see the problem that this data center will create. Climate change has been accelerated and worsening every year, we do not need something that will make it accelerate faster. I want my children and my children's chil...↓

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Comment From: Nur Maritza

7/03/26 @ 6:27 PM

PLEASE STOP THE PROJECT JUPITER. THIS WORLD IS FOR ALL OF GOD CREATURES!!!
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: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:27 PM

Data centers threaten the livelihood of all who live around it. They deplete water and natural resources, release huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and use up tons and tons of electricity in the surrounding area. The implementation ...↓

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Comment From: Blanka Adamczyk

7/03/26 @ 6:27 PM

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Comment From: Brooke n/a

7/03/26 @ 6:27 PM

The future is in OUR hands and WE are ruining it, were ruining our future and everyone else to come, project Jupiter will effect us, releasing fuel cells into the atmosphere or wasting tons of water on a data centre we do NOT need, In Morgan county G...↓

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Comment From: Gemma Crespo

7/03/26 @ 6:26 PM

Sois monstruos que solo quieren destrozar el mundo para vuestros gustos egoístas. Todos sabemos que no hacen falta más centros de estos y que hay cientos de especies que se extinguirán por estos proyectos. Si seguís así no solo acabaréis con la vida ...↓

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Comment From: Layla Sheppard

7/03/26 @ 6:26 PM

we do not want these data centers! you may think we do, but majority doesn't. us signing this goes to show our disagreement. please do not do this. our planet has already been destroyed and this will push the limit to us having an healthy and safe pl...↓ace to live.

A change to fuel cells has minimal impacts on the suffering we will endure as a result of the gas plant's air pollution. To add 10 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution and a vague estimate of toxic emissions to our active and long-time nonattainment zone would be nothing short of blatant environmental racism. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we have received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. We are already breathing some of the most compromised air in the country. It is unacceptable to invite a new source of hyperscale air pollution into our communities.

The carbon dioxide pollution alone will heat our atmosphere at a much faster pace and promote the formation of even more ground-level ozone. Last summer, my 7 year old suffered a grand mal seizure while on the playground at school because the extreme heat led to electrolyte imbalances. My brother works outside everyday without shade or rest breaks and has nowhere to keep his insulin cool. I can barely pay my electricity bills in the summer as it is. We cannot afford more intense heat. The other toxic air pollutants are extremely dangerous–many of them at very low levels. How am I supposed to send my kids to school knowing what they are breathing in? Knowing it can cause permanent brain damage or breathing complications before they have had a chance to grow up.

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

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

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:26 PM

STOP THE BUILDING OF PROJECT JUPITER. You are destroying the land, surrounding animal habitats and poisoning our Earth. How will you feel when you're one of the biggest contenders when it comes do destroying our Earth? If you want to protect our plan...↓

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Comment From: Damiya Malone

7/03/26 @ 6:25 PM

Building a data center that will release 10 million tons of carbon Dioxide annually when most of The untied states of America is in a drought could possibly be one of the most idiotic things that could happen, it will put thousands of people at risk ...↓

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Comment From: Alicia Martinez

7/03/26 @ 6:25 PM

stop project jupiter! WE DONT NEED AI all this will do is destroy our planet all for some extra cash!

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: Dua Sameer

7/03/26 @ 6:25 PM

Stop the use of carbon emissions!

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 pollutio...↓n 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: Ariana Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:25 PM

Nobody needs these overkill pollution "data centers" NOR IS IT WANTED!!!! It's not beneficial for nobody but the greed out of touch parasites of billionaires and people like Peter Thiel and the corrupted government.
New Mexico Environment Department ...↓

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Comment From: Charlotte Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:25 PM

WE DONT NEED DATA CENTERS! We can live without Ai, but can we live without the earth?

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:24 PM

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 o...↓n 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: Agapi Tsiala

7/03/26 @ 6:24 PM

We do not need more data centers. WE DONT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN we do not want our air quality to be polluted!!! We want forests and clean water and clean air!! Again we DONT want another data center stop destroying our earth

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Comment From: Hanna skałka

7/03/26 @ 6:23 PM

Im just hoping this will stop building this data center.

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Comment From: Delaney Drain

7/03/26 @ 6:23 PM

The proposed design has an individual exhaust stack on each fuel cell, of which there will be 2,275. It would be inefficient to place monitors and controls on each individual stack and there are NO proposed pollution controls on any of these stacks. ...↓How, then, will this project show evidence of their compliance with emissions limit requirements under Title V? Has there been or will there ever be upstream fuel testing of methane gas to anticipate the composition of these fuel cells' emissions? How exactly will NMED enforce emissions standards without direct, long-term, continuous monitoring? Or isolate their deleterious impact on air quality without an accurate assessment of localized pollution? A fuel cell can continue to generate electricity or maintain operating temperatures while experiencing catalyst degradation which causes a massive spike in the release of carbon monoxide or Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). This project would need to centralize the 2,275 individual stack emissions into an exponentially smaller number of exhaust systems so that Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) installed on these central exhaust systems can provide real-time, accurate data about operational compliance. As it is, this design plan completely fails to provide monitoring conditions that are "practically enforceable" under 20.2.70.302.B NMAC.

A proposal, such as this one, that relies on computer simulation modeling instead of actual, measured air pollution at scale is invalid, untrustworthy, and far from what residents of Doña Ana County and New Mexico deserve. What data was used to train these models? When and where was this data collected? What proportion of those involved in the development of this model have, at any time, received money from the corporations involved? How much? If NMED allows group testing for this project, 99% of the exhaust stacks at this facility will never be physically tested during the entire life of the Title V permit. This creates an unmonitored loophole that violates the Clean Air Act's mandate for continuous compliance. We know the pollution approximations provided are based on an extremely lazy testing methodology and while we were not told whether these 4 tests were even done on-site or during peak temperatures, we can safely assume the applicants cut corners here as well in an attempt to fast track this approval. As I write this, Project Jupiter is draining an undisclosed amount of water from our shared aquifer on a daily basis. Given the statistical invalidity of their pollution estimates, approving this air permit under any circumstance would be to allow this project to introduce unmitigated and undisclosed hazards into our air without consequence. Children attending Santa Teresa Elementary School will sit innocently, every day, LESS THAN ONE MILE from this pollution. Three other schools, an elder care center, and three public parks sit within around 4 miles of this project. Deny this air permit. Gambling with the fragile health of our children and elders would be a complete defilment of the authority vested in you.

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Comment From: Kurt Depner

7/03/26 @ 6:23 PM

Wow, you sure are burying the truth in this comments section. Yucca Growth Infrastructure? This has Project Jupiter and big tech dystopia written all over it. No we don't want AI, data centers and your resource gobbling bullshit to feed Oracle's insa...↓

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Comment From: Ana anguiano

7/03/26 @ 6:22 PM

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Comment From: Silas Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:22 PM

Globally, AI usage is an issue. Outside of environmental issues which im sure everyone is already aware of, ai is being used to sexualise and harm women and children. We dont need more ai, its adding nothing to our society and is creating dependence,...↓

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Comment From: Nathalie Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:22 PM

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Comment From: kiana smith

7/03/26 @ 6:21 PM

the community has made it known we do not want this. nobody wants data centers. they are ruining our environment

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Comment From: Mia Houston

7/03/26 @ 6:21 PM

Stop this data center. A large portion of my family live in Santa Teresa and have for their whole lives. I used to, but I have moved to live with my husband. We often go there for holidays, celebrations, or just visits. I don't want to lose my home. ...↓

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Comment From: Gabby King

7/03/26 @ 6:20 PM

Stop project Jupiter! This will kill people if allowed to continue, fresh water is limited as 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.
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Comment From: Maddy n/a

7/03/26 @ 6:20 PM

I'm scared for my future.

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: Misha kavalur

7/03/26 @ 6:19 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.

The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazardous waste. Approving this permit would be government-sponsored environmental racism directed at residents of Doña Ana County.
If the permit is not denied outright, a public hearing needs to be held in Santa Teresa, in both English and Spanish, with an option to participate virtually.

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Comment From: Layla hammack

7/03/26 @ 6:19 PM

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Comment From: Chris .

7/03/26 @ 6:19 PM

We shouldn't be doing this. This is such a major problem. This is going to drain peoples waters, and it will expand to other cities and small town areas and not to forget the most important thing (ECOSYSTEM'S). You guys want to build more stuff and l...↓

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Comment From: Logan Secor

7/03/26 @ 6:18 PM

Our metro area is already 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....↓

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