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SILVER CITY 鈥� Sometimes a news story breaks not on the front page or on TV, but in the classified ads.

Grant County residents first learned of a proposed data center near them from a public listing recently published in the Silver City Daily Press. The notice announced that an air quality permit would be filed Oct. 1 with the New Mexico Environment Department for construction of a data center 鈥減owered by (a) natural gas fired electrical power generation facility.鈥�

Oly Perez, a community organizer who also works as a paramedic, said she, like many in her community, was 鈥渂lindsided.鈥� 

Previous data center proposals 鈥� notably, the large-scale development known as Project Jupiter in Santa Teresa or Green Data鈥檚 stalled bids to manufacture solar-powered data centers in Socorro County or at Spaceport America 鈥� were publicly vetted because they sought partnerships with public bodies.

Perez and environmental advocates got to work right away gathering what information they could about the project while laying the groundwork for a grassroots campaign. By October, Grant County may even become the fourth New Mexico county to enact a moratorium on data center development. 

According to the public notice, the project owner is identified as Site Layer 1 LLC, a corporate entity with a New York City address. Its manager is listed in corporate filings as AirLayer Advisory LLC, a Delaware-registered company with scant information about its ownership or means of contact.

The Silver City-based Gila Resources Information Project, or GRIP, connected it to Corner, a New York-based venture capital firm, and similarly named data center projects in other states, such as Site Layer 2 in Logan County, Colorado, and Site Layer 4 in Platte County, Wyoming.

Corner, which did not respond to an email from the Journal on Friday, described itself in a recent news release as 鈥渁 multi-billion dollar investment firm that backs, builds, and operates companies across the AI economy.鈥�

The location of the New Mexico project, according to the public notice, is a patch of private land among ranch properties and federally managed land 4.5 miles northeast of Playas and nearly 12 miles from the small community of Hachita, along N.M. 9 at the county鈥檚 southern tip.

The notice discloses that the center would be powered by 32 natural gas-fueled engines, producing 9.4 megawatts apiece or 300.8 megawatts in total. The notice includes anticipated emissions of nearly 1.3 million tons of greenhouse gases per year, roughly equivalent to annual emissions from 173,000 homes or 300,000 gasoline-powered automobiles, .

The notice does not include information about the project鈥檚 square-footage or water demands. 

Perez said particulate matter 鈥� estimated in the notice at 225 tons per year 鈥� was of particular concern to her because the area is notorious for wind and dust storms, raising the possibility that contaminants would be spread widely into population centers in Hidalgo, Grant and Luna counties.

鈥淎s a paramedic, I know we already see these high rates of respiratory illness,鈥� she said.

Perez set up a table on the patio of June June鈥檚 ice cream shop downtown Thursday, stocked with supplies for sending letters to the state Environment Department opposing an air quality permit and to the county commissioners advocating for a moratorium.

The table was stocked with model letters and mailing labels, with bicycle gears serving as paperweights. Perez also put out matte paints, foam brushes and markers for art. 鈥淪ometimes people don鈥檛 want to write letters,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 think that it takes all kinds. If you feel confident doing a poster, do a poster.鈥�

In a statement on its website, GRIP urged community members to organize well before the air quality permit process begins. 

鈥淲e cannot afford to wait until the formal public comment period begins to speak up,鈥� GRIP wrote in its statement. 鈥淣ow is the time for residents, community leaders, and elected officials to make clear that southern New Mexico鈥檚 limited water resources, clean air, and long-term future must come before the demands of a massive, energy- and water-intensive data center.鈥�

Over three dozen people visited Perez and accepted letter-writing materials, with many expressing opposition to a data center in the county. Others 鈥� including the two candidates running to represent Grant County in the state Legislature 鈥� favored a moratorium as a way to slow development long enough to establish environmental guardrails. 

鈥淵ou cannot tell a good project from a bad one when the first anybody hears of it is small print in the classifieds,鈥� state House candidate Raul Turrieta, a Silver City Democrat, wrote in a campaign email. 鈥淎nd right now, nothing in New Mexico law requires them to tell us more than that.鈥�

A recent Journal poll found that 75% of respondents favored a temporary halt to data center development in order to set standards addressing their local environmental and economic consequences. Support for moratoriums scored highly even among residents who support data centers. 

鈥淣ot all data centers are the same,鈥� Turrieta told the Journal, saying he advocates full disclosure of water, power and land uses, binding community benefit agreements and guarantees that data centers will bear their own energy costs in order to protect ratepayers. 

On this issue, at least, Turrieta and the incumbent he is challenging, state Rep. Luis Terrazas, R-Santa Clara, find common ground. 

鈥淭here are still far too many unanswered questions about what data centers could mean for our water, our resources, and the people who call these communities home,鈥� Terrazas told the Journal Thursday. 鈥淯ntil we have clear answers, we need to pause and make sure New Mexicans are not being asked to sacrifice their future for someone else鈥檚 development.鈥� 

Grant County Commissioner Nancy Stephens confirmed Friday that she plans to propose a one-year moratorium, modeled on Socorro County鈥檚 resolution, as soon as the commissioners鈥� Sept. 24 meeting. 

Algernon 顿鈥橝尘尘补蝉蝉补 is the Journal鈥檚 southern New Mexico correspondent. He can be reached at adammassa@abqjournal.com.