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

Comment From: Arieanna Miller

7/03/26 @ 6:18 PM

Project Jupiter is one of the many ways that we are insurmountably fucking our planet up. It needs to be put to a stop.

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:17 PM

You need to give the public at least sixty days to make a comment. This project is not only harmful, but environmental racism. Residents in that county are already impacted by pollution at a higher rate than their white counterparts. You have a chanc...↓

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Comment From: Carter Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:17 PM

I dont want to die for ai there needs to be a hearing for this this needs to be stopped before this kills us all and takes all the water.

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:16 PM

I want to live, I wanna live in a world where I wouldn't have yo worry about global heat that Ai is currently worsening and you can't deny that, I wanna be able to live knowing that my future generations wouldn't have to live what we're living, I wan...↓

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Comment From: Nathaniel Saverance

7/03/26 @ 6:16 PM

The AI data center is wrong and doesnt need to be here. We dont want it

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Comment From: Alyssa Ledesma

7/03/26 @ 6:16 PM

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

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Comment From: Val m

7/03/26 @ 6:15 PM

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

Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and 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: Alys'lyn Alys'lyn Mcquirter

7/03/26 @ 6:14 PM

I am against Project Jupiter. We have gone years without needing artificial intelligence. What makes people think we need it now. It's so dumb human beings are ruining Earth by getting greedy and lazy. Stop Project Jupiter if you actually care about ...↓

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Comment From: Isabella Broda

7/03/26 @ 6:14 PM

Stop the project jupiter, it's not okay for them / you to just take the water from the people that live there.

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Comment From: Lucia Layton

7/03/26 @ 6:14 PM

STOP PROJECT JUPITER. I live in Southern Doña Ana County and under no circumstances do I want experimental technology deployed at an unprecedented scale in my backyard. Yucca Growth Infrastructure's gas-powered fuel cell plant is 1,000 times larger t...↓han Bloom Energy's biggest existing fuel cell plant. In fact, worldwide, Bloom Energy has developed 1.4 GW of fuel cell technology across more than a thousand locations, yet Yucca Growth Infrastructure is asking for nearly double that (2.46 GW of fuel cells) at a singular location. The largest fuel cell plant in the entire world is more than 30 times smaller than the fuel cell plant under consideration in Santa Teresa. There is absolutely no way to know, with certainty, what the actual pollution levels will be given the tremendous size differential, and thus gap in data, between operational fuel cell plants and this theoretical plant proposed by Yucca Growth Infrastructure. Betting the livability of our county on this unpredictable and unproven plan would be a total capitulation and betrayal of your so-called values: "protects the public health of New Mexicans...by preventing the deterioration of air quality;" "protect and restore the environment...foster a healthy NM for present and future generations"

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

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

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

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Comment From: Nyla Fabila

7/03/26 @ 6:14 PM

No more Ai

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Comment From: Ella Hjort

7/03/26 @ 6:12 PM

WE DO NOT WANT THIS! Stop! The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
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Comment From: George Owusu

7/03/26 @ 6:11 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: Jennifer Hernandez

7/03/26 @ 6:08 PM

We need to be doing things to preserve our home and it's resources not allowing things like data centers to take away those precious resources and further damage our fragile ecosystem and lands. We need to take care of it if we want to be able to con...↓

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Comment From: Zaylin F

7/03/26 @ 6:08 PM

I am not a resident of Southern Doña Ana County, but I have a right to speak on behalf of those residents who do not approve of this project. This is extremely unnecessary. At what cost will you stop? When the earth has had the worst nature disasters...↓ that destroy families because of climate change? Or worse, the environment changing because of the lack of accessible habitat for animals that have a life with more meaning than a data center. Take into consideration that we can thrive as a nation without this kind of energy, water, and fossil fuels being used and/or put into the environment causing climate change and the earth to overheat at a detrimental rate. When will you put your money into more important corporations? Like saving polar bears, or replanting trees or even trash clean up. When will you realize? How would you feel, as a person, an human being having to deal with a huge data center in your neighborhood? Sucking the life out of water sources and the environment. At what cost will you stop? Put yourself into the collectives shoes that you are affecting the most. This is not a way of living.
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.

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Comment From: Kelsey Brereton

7/03/26 @ 6:07 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: Barb stanton

7/03/26 @ 6:06 PM

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Comment From: Nathaniel Saverance

7/03/26 @ 6:06 PM

The AI data center is wrong and doesn't need to be here. We don't want it.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 6:06 PM

I live in Florida and i believe that building this data center will provide nothing good to the world. AI is not needed and we can live even better without this data center. All the companies want is money and they do not care about human lives. This...↓

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Comment From: Annalisa Moreno

7/03/26 @ 6:05 PM

No project Jupiter. No air quality permit.

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Comment From: Jupiter Horo

7/03/26 @ 6:04 PM

We need clean water to live, its not optional and not easy to get. we won't realise what we have until it's gone. As someone who wants to grow up, and have children who don't have to grow up in fear and anxiousness over whether or not they'll have to...↓

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Comment From: Rachelle Serna

7/03/26 @ 6:04 PM

Project Jupiter is not what's best for the community. I've talked to people where they're building AI data centers. They told me that they hate them there for many reasons such as traffic, noise, and the cost of living. Cost of living prices are alre...↓

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Comment From: Kimora n/a

7/03/26 @ 6:04 PM

The fact that this even has to be a question about why we do not want a large data center to ruin our environment where we already have so much things I'm doing that is insane. Please reconsider the project for the livelihoods of the future generatio...↓

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Comment From: Norah bediako

7/03/26 @ 6:03 PM

My name is Norah, I live in France. In june, the country has been though the hottest days ever registered. I am 16 years old and now when I think of my future, I also wonder if we even could survive. Everyone is boycotting AI to save the Earth and to...↓

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Comment From: Ian Del Valle

7/03/26 @ 6:03 PM

From my perspective, Project Jupiter is a project that should not move forward because the risks and unanswered questions outweigh the promised benefits. It feels like something that's being rushed without enough transparency, accountability, or mean...↓ingful public input. What concerns me most is the uncertainty surrounding its long-term impact. Projects of this scale can affect communities, the environment, and people's daily lives for years to come. If those impacts aren't fully understood or openly discussed, moving forward is irresponsible. The potential environmental impacts are another major concern. Large-scale developments can damage natural habitats, reduce green space, increase pollution, and place additional strain on local ecosystems. Once these changes occur, they can be difficult or impossible to reverse. There are also economic concerns. Projects like this often require significant funding, and if costs exceed expectations or the projected benefits fail to materialize, taxpayers and local communities may ultimately bear the financial burden. Those resources could potentially be invested in projects with clearer and more immediate benefits. The impact on the community should not be overlooked either. Increased traffic, construction noise, changes to neighborhoods, and pressure on local infrastructure can reduce residents' quality of life. If the people most affected by the project don't feel their voices are being heard, it creates distrust and resentment instead of support. I also believe that trust has to be earned. When people feel excluded from the decision-making process or don't receive clear, honest information, it creates doubt instead of confidence. A project that affects so many people should be built on openness, not assumptions. To me, Project Jupiter represents a lack of transparency and an unwillingness to address legitimate public concerns before making major decisions. Until there is stronger evidence that the benefits truly outweigh the cost, 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: James Shane

7/03/26 @ 6:02 PM

This project will only serve to hurt local communities and hurt our climate.

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 equitabl...↓

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Comment From: Xavier Suarez

7/03/26 @ 6:02 PM

The New Mexican people do not want a data center to ruin the quality of our lives. This data center is in direct opposition to our futures and our health and our lives. Please don't let them take away the Land of Enchantment.

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Comment From: Kaithlene Esparza Martinez

7/03/26 @ 6:01 PM

I am a born and raised citizen of New Mexico. This state does NOT need Project Jupiter. END PROJECT JUPITER. We are LIMITED on water and our air is dry enough. Building this data center will destroy our plants and our society as a whole.

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Comment From: Samuel Marås

7/03/26 @ 5:59 PM

Just stop this nonsense. Protect the environment don't destroy it.
Stop destroying.
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: Adelaide Heard

7/03/26 @ 5:59 PM

I do not want project Jupiter to move forward. I am worried about our clean air and depletion of resources such as water. The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can partic...↓

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Comment From: Alfred Pike

7/03/26 @ 5:59 PM

The direction of industry and artificial intelligence with its factories and data centres is one that should not be taken, it puts not only the environment and ecosystem of the entire planet at risk but the whole of human population. I and many other...↓

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Comment From: Grace Dukes

7/03/26 @ 5:56 PM

I am submitting this comment to share my opposition to the Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC-YGI Microgrid Air Quality Construction Permit Application. Please deny this application for the following reasons:

*YGI's application should be denied by NM...↓

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Comment From: Lamichhane Samridhi

7/03/26 @ 5:56 PM

I believe data centers like project Jupiter will be a huge harm to our environment including all the natural resources surrounding it, increasing the already worsening climate change. No matter what we do, we all know that we can't eat money so its b...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:55 PM

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

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:55 PM

Please do not trust that bloom energy will do any good for the environment. They have a wide history of sacrificing the public's resources to build their buildings. Please look over their history and how they have impacted the environment before and ...↓

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Comment From: Kadi F

7/03/26 @ 5:54 PM

AI is ruining our world. It's ruining our planet, our people and our lives. AI data centres are destroying our wildlife, and biodiversity is rapidly declining. So many endangered species are losing their space to thrive and reproduce and simply live ...↓their lives. Families are losing access to clean drinking water, a basic human necessity and may I add a human right, from overconsumption of generative AI. There are so many more problems than just our environment, though. People are lacking common sense, initiative and basic knowledge, and we have generative AI to thank for this. Having unlimited and public access to generative AI means that people are beginning to completely rely on this. Humans are quite simply becoming stupid; having no initiative at all thanks to "just asking ChatGPT" and not bothering to go and research something because, again, they can "just ask ChatGPT". AI itself isn't the problem, it's the accessibility and publicity. AI should be used as a tool, not to replace everything we already know. Artificial Intelligence should be used as a tool for specialists in certain sectors, e.g. healthcare and emergency services. Giving the public unlimited access to AI means that our brains are declining, lacking the stimulation they need to grow new brain cells and form important connections. But one of the worst parts is that by giving the public access to this, we are also giving it to children. Children with devices have become increasingly more common these past few years, and continues to become even more normalised. By giving children access to AI, they are often exposed to inappropriate 'chat bots', designed for adults to chat to and often simulate a romantic or sexual relationship between the human and the robot. Children and even toddlers are given access to this which I quite frankly think is disgusting. As a world, we don't need AI. We were doing fine, even better than we are now, without it.

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 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: Andreea Vasilica

7/03/26 @ 5:53 PM

I am AGAINST building Project Jupiter since it is a threat to our waters, resources and it is a major factor in global warming. It is a threat to Earth and it doesn't help nature, and only affects villages, cities, communities, animals, plants and pe...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:52 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: Amalie geffert

7/03/26 @ 5:52 PM

I think project Jupiter should be ban you know why? It's because we are always destroying our climate enough by using fast fashion and using fossil fuel cars and using ai in everyday lifes millions and millions do this everyday and its not just you

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:51 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: Rosa Ramirez

7/03/26 @ 5:51 PM

Please stop data centers. They are not welcome in our community. We need clean air, water and lower electric bills.
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Comment From: Chess Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:50 PM

Stop the jupiter project!

People matter more than AI!

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Comment From: Vasco Neves

7/03/26 @ 5:50 PM

I think is one of the dumbest things ever.

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: Amelia Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:50 PM

You are ruining the world. You are trying to convince us thats its good but all u care about is money, the massive heatwaves in Europe and ice melting is all human fault. Why are we even born? To destroy the earth just so you can get your money? Your...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:50 PM

When considering Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping of hazardous waste, approving their permit would be unethical and unjust to the community members of Doña Ana County.

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Comment From: Tania Eubanks

7/03/26 @ 5:49 PM

We do not need more data centers killing the 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...↓

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Comment From: Gabriella Sanchez

7/03/26 @ 5:48 PM

We can live without AI, burn down all data centers.

New Mexico Environment Department should give the public an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
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Comment From: Charles n/a

7/03/26 @ 5:48 PM

The fuel cells cause hazardous waste and impacts the health of locals in the area. It will also pollute the earth. For years, Doña Ana County had air quality that does not meet federal government rules. Approving this permit would be government-spons...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:48 PM

The damage data centers are putting on the earth are blatant. Droughts, contaminated water, wasted space for something better. We the people of the USA not only reject but denounce the idea of data centers. To build one as large as this could mean a ...↓

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Comment From: Aniyah Perez

7/03/26 @ 5:45 PM

STOP PROJECT JUPITER, stop hurting the planet.

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: Ava Nerison

7/03/26 @ 5:43 PM

We only have one planet we can properly function on without the need of constant life support. Ai and data centers are draining the earth of its water- which is needed for most life on this planet. We do not need Ai to function as a society, it is no...↓

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Comment From: N J

7/03/26 @ 5:42 PM

This new data center will devastate the climate of our current earth. Tons upon tons of carbon are going to be released into our already damaged atmosphere. The data center will only push us forward in the destruction of our home. It is not, even by ...↓

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Comment From: Caylee Wood

7/03/26 @ 5:42 PM

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Comment From: Maria Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:42 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: Karman Khatkar

7/03/26 @ 5:41 PM

Children attending Santa Teresa Elementary School will sit innocently, every day, LESS THAN ONE MILE from this pollution. Three other schools, an elder care center, and three public parks sit within around 4 miles of this project. Deny this air permi...↓

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Comment From: Ledger Buerkle

7/03/26 @ 5:41 PM

I'm tired of our government approving data centers that take away valuable resources and water from our limited water supply to be built. This needs to be stopped.

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Comment From: Luana .

7/03/26 @ 5:40 PM

On the year that we are going to experience a Super El Niño, where 1300 people died just in Europe due to the heat, where climate disasters are intensifying, I got to know that there will be a data center that will aggravate everything. Instead of in...↓

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Comment From: Kay Lou

7/03/26 @ 5:40 PM

This is a horrendous act of exploiting the local resources. Those people who are responsible for this should be ashamed of yourself every night. You're not helping your country to grow, you're helping murderers to kill more innocent people in the mos...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:39 PM

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Comment From: Alicia White

7/03/26 @ 5:39 PM

Project Jupiter must be stopped. Our planet will be heavily damaged by the carbon emission that is posed by the data center. Bloom energy has a history of illegally dumping hazardous waste. Please listen to us and stop the continuation of this

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Comment From: Driscol scheuer

7/03/26 @ 5:36 PM

Save the 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: Amiyah n/a

7/03/26 @ 5:35 PM

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

7/03/26 @ 5:32 PM

We as a planet need to stand together against projects that further strip the life from earth. This is not very net zero.

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Comment From: Robin Hamilton

7/03/26 @ 5:31 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: Gracy dhungel

7/03/26 @ 5:30 PM

Project Jupiter should stop. It's going to have great consequences on the environment as we already have limited drinking water. This project will just heat the earth more, plus reduce the water supply. So please stop project Jupiter!!!

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Comment From: Felix Müller

7/03/26 @ 5:30 PM

Stop project jupiter! The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
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Comment From: Ángel El Amrani

7/03/26 @ 5:29 PM

No one wants more damn data centers, people and plants are dying due to water scarcity.

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Comment From: Jessica Dukes

7/03/26 @ 5:28 PM

YGI's application should be denied by NMED because YGI failed to include all relevant information about Bloom Energy's problematic history.
Bloom Energy's Fuel Cells are not clean energy – no matter what YGI says. These fuel cells generate significan...↓

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Comment From: Alex Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:28 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.

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:27 PM

I am very concerned about the development of this project. This poses serious impacts to health and lives of the local residents, and has an alarming negative impact on both the local and wider environment. The air quality permit that Bloom Energy re...↓

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Comment From: Janelle Wilcox

7/03/26 @ 5:27 PM

Building this AI center will make thousands of New Mexicans lose trust in the people we have put in charge currently. Not only are you changing our beautiful natural environment, the damage that the data center could cause for the future livelihood o...↓

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Comment From: Sydney .

7/03/26 @ 5:27 PM

We only have one planet. Please don't let the human race wipe itself out when there is so much time left to stop it. Everything is burning up, everyone feels the heat from the now data centers. We survived without this.

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Comment From: Anon Anon

7/03/26 @ 5:25 PM

the construction of yet another data centers is unnecessary given the amount of noise and air pollution it produces while still demanding heavy amounts of energy and water.

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Comment From: Amanda Lorentzson

7/03/26 @ 5:25 PM

Fuck 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: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:25 PM

Stop this, why are we destroying our selves. I'm 13 and I don't wanna grow up where the earth is literally burning up. I want my kids and grandkids in the future to have a normal life without this constant greed for ai and data centers.
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Comment From: Rahim Agazade

7/03/26 @ 5:25 PM

STOP THIS PROJECT!!

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Comment From: Johnathan Venero

7/03/26 @ 5:24 PM

Project Jupiter is HORRIBLE and generative AI as a whole is horrible. It's already been used for horrible things and will continue to be used for such horrible things, and AI data centers are horrible for the environment as a whole. No body likes AI ...↓

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Comment From: Anon Anon

7/03/26 @ 5:23 PM

Artificial intelligence has become increasingly damaging to our environment. Instead of ruining the only planet we can live on. Fund the schools, fund community centers, pay teachers and educators and we wouldn't rely so heavily on A.I. do not do us ...↓

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:23 PM

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

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Comment From: Saige Askevold

7/03/26 @ 5:22 PM

Do not continue to build this data centre it will ruin the world! Not exaggerating either, this will destroy us.

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Comment From: Vanessa-Marie Anon

7/03/26 @ 5:22 PM

I care for our planet and don't want more destruction.

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Comment From: Delphine R

7/03/26 @ 5:22 PM

Stop the project

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: Anonymous Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:22 PM

This has to stop were already facing bad climate changes!
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Comment From: Anon Anon

7/03/26 @ 5:21 PM

We the people oppose your data centers

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Comment From: Anastasia Bruton

7/03/26 @ 5:21 PM

We need to stop project Jupiter or else our planet will turn into Jupiter. We were fine without ai, in fact we lived many many years without it, why do we need it now? Is it because we need it to confuse us, to make us question what is real?

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Comment From: Nicoleta Popa

7/03/26 @ 5:21 PM

This planet is dying because of us and we're already seeing the effects of this through the heat wave going through Europe. A data center of this size and caliber would do so much damage to the environment, worsen our current situation so much and fo...↓

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Comment From: Takira Lynch

7/03/26 @ 5:20 PM

WE DONT WANT PROJECT JUPITER! NO MORE DATA CENTERS! ITS KILLING THE EARTH RAPIDLY!

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Comment From: Jude Clowater

7/03/26 @ 5:20 PM

This ai data center will kill ecosystems, make water unclean for human consumption to the communities surrounding the datacenters and kill hundreds if not thousands of animals. We do not need a datacenter the size of Manhattan, it is cruel and unnece...↓

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Comment From: Ivyn Montgomery

7/03/26 @ 5:20 PM

project Jupiter will cause major changes to the water around it and also release lots of carbon dioxide in to the air and atmosphere leading to worse air quality and global warming and we don't need anymore of that.

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Comment From: Alyssa C

7/03/26 @ 5:20 PM

We do not need AI to exist!! Stop building data centers that speed up global warming and will eventually kill us all! These data centers are a direct cause to the rapid rise of temperature in the world, and all for what? An AI that can tell you how t...↓

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Comment From: Adroana Anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:19 PM

We only have one earth!! Climate change is real and I for one am TIRED of seeing what we are doing to our poor home. It doesnt belong to only humans. We must be fair and think about not just us but put local ecosystems and environments. Think about t...↓

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Comment From: Anon Anon

7/03/26 @ 5:19 PM

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

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: Martha n/a

7/03/26 @ 5:18 PM

stop project jupiter!!! ruining the lives of millions is not worth it. stop wasting our clean water.
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Comment From: Anon Anon

7/03/26 @ 5:18 PM

We don't need more data centers.

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Comment From: Isabelle Pakarinen

7/03/26 @ 5:18 PM

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Comment From: Joselyne Joseph

7/03/26 @ 5:18 PM

The government is building data centers for a future we won't be able to live in anymore because of machines that are taking our recourses!

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/03/26 @ 5:17 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.

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Comment From: Anna Anon

7/03/26 @ 5:17 PM

Stop this bullshit

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: Arwen Ross

7/03/26 @ 5:17 PM

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Comment From: Daniel nørgaard

7/03/26 @ 5:17 PM

Do not ruin it for the earth.

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