🚨 Project Jupiter Isn't Inevitable: Speak Out For Southern NM's Air, Water, And Future By July 1st 🚨

The Rio Grande is running dry in Albuquerque before summer has even begun, and Southern New Mexico is seeing water in the river for the first time since last year.

And meanwhile, Project Jupiter developers want us to trust that their $165 billion AI data center won't bleed the Chihuahuan Desert dry for the sake of Oracle and OpenAI's profits.

They want us to trust that what would be one of the largest data centers in the world can be built without threatening our climate and futures in a region that already faces historic drought and consistently fails to meet air quality standards. They want us to trust that the billionaire-backed corporations and industry interests behind Project Jupiter will somehow put the needs of our communities above their profits.

We aren't buying it – and from now until July 1st, we need your help to expose Project Jupiter for what it really is: a continuation of the extraction our communities have been fighting back against for generations.

When we last wrote to you about Project Jupiter before YUCCA's Strategic Planning Pause began, County Commissioners believed that Project Jupiter would use approximately 20,000 gallons of water a day – but in the weeks that followed, the Office of the State Engineer suggested that the project could require nearly one million gallons of water per day, a difference so dramatic that Doña Ana County launched an investigation into whether developers' plans had shifted.

And before we ever received clear answers, developers scrapped their original proposal after thousands of young people and community members submitted a record number of public comments to the New Mexico Environment Department opposing plans to power Project Jupiter with dirty fossil-fuel powered gas turbines.

Together, we forced developers to go back to the drawing board – proof that when we organize, we have the power to challenge even the largest corporations and wealthiest interests.

But instead of answering the questions our communities have been raising for months, the developers continue to try to turn our communities into the next frontier of unchecked extraction. They returned with a new proposal – and a new attempt to repackage industry expansion as innovation.

This latest proposal would use fuel cell technology in an attempt to meet the enormous energy needs generated by this massive AI data center – but despite developers' claims that this new plan is a sustainable way to power Project Jupiter, we know the truth: this technology is unproven at scale, generates dangerous amounts of hazardous waste, and would still create more greenhouse gas emissions than Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces combined.

And since we last shared an update, developers haven't just revised their plans. They've launched a new bilingual greenwashing campaign from Oracle designed to pitch Project Jupiter as a "better kind of data center" and flooded local and state news with pro-development op-eds while sidestepping our communities' most pressing questions around water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and long-term impacts.

Developers are doing everything they can to push Project Jupiter across the finish line without acknowledging who it's really designed to benefit. But no matter how many times developers revise their proposals, their priorities remain the same: lining their pockets and enriching their shareholders, not protecting our communities.

There is no sustainable version of extraction – we won't stand by and accept more risk, uncertainty, and harm so billion-dollar corporations can turn a profit.

From now until July 1st, the New Mexico Environment Department is accepting online public comments on Project Jupiter's latest air quality permit application, and we need your help to speak out for Southern New Mexico's air, water, and future.

Head to bit.ly/StopProjectJupiterPermits or click the button below to demand that the New Mexico Environment Department reject developers' latest proposal. Then, join the fight against the tech oligarchy for the long-haul and help us shape the strategy we'll need to stop Project Jupiter for good by becoming a YUCCA Member.

Developers are counting on us to accept this $165 billion AI mega-project as inevitable – to accept an economic future built on industry expansion and corporate control, and to accept that another generation of extraction is simply the price of economic development.

But nothing is inevitable about Project Jupiter. Because together, we have the power to stop it.

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