New Mexico students walk out to protest Project Jupiter data center and Heinrich permitting bill
Hundreds of students marched on the state Capitol, demanding a data center moratorium and targeting Sen. Heinrich's permitting legislation.
What to know
- Students across New Mexico walked out of class on Oct. 27 to protest Project Jupiter and other data center/fossil fuel projects, marching to the Capitol and the governor's office.
- The protest ties directly into a legislative fight: activists are opposing US Sen. Martin Heinrich's data center permitting bill and pushing for a statewide moratorium.
- A Dec. 7 public hearing will decide whether Project Jupiter's power source gets an air quality permit, one of its last operational hurdles.
- Gubernatorial nominee Deb Haaland has pledged an executive-order moratorium on data centers if elected Nov. 3, adding electoral stakes to the protest.
“You, the adults, the ones supposed to be fighting for us, you may get the privilege of dying of old age, but our children will die from climate change.”
Isabelle Taylor-Ault, Student organizer, NMSA junior · Source NM via Yahoo News ↗ · Oct 26
Isabelle Taylor-Ault Student organizer, NMSA juniorMicaela Lara Cadena New Mexico state representative (D-Mesilla)
Deb Haaland Democratic gubernatorial nomineeMichelle Lujan Grisham Governor of New Mexico
Martin Heinrich US Senator
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Public hearing set on Project Jupiter's air quality permit — A Dec. 7 hearing will decide whether to grant Project Jupiter's power source an air quality permit, one of the last hurdles before the data center becomes fully operational, with the outcome possibly preceding a new governor taking office.
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Activist account frames Heinrich's bill as a "dirty data center deal"
A Bluesky account tied to a no-data-center-deal campaign characterized the walkout as opposition to Sen. Martin Heinrich's permitting legislation, dubbed BAAJA.
“calling out BAAJA, Sen. Martin Heinrich's dirty data center deal.”
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Yesterday, hundreds of students across New Mexico walked out of classes to stop the state from being taken over by data centers, calling out BAAJA, Sen. Martin Heinrich's dirty data center deal.
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New Mexico students walk out of classes to protest data centers, permitting bill.
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State Rep. Lara Cadena praises the student walkout
Rep. Micaela Lara Cadena (D-Mesilla), a vocal critic of Project Jupiter and early advocate of a moratorium, told Source NM she was thrilled to see teenagers opposing the development.
“We will not get back the last 20 years of climate progress Project Jupiter will undo.”
— Isabelle Taylor-Ault, Student organizer, NMSA junior · source -
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Protesters confront Gov. Lujan Grisham's office directly — Standing outside the governor's fourth-floor office, protesters chanted in unison accusing her of supporting the project's environmental impact.
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Students walk out and march on the NM Capitol against Project Jupiter — Hundreds of students from NMSA in Santa Fe and UNM in Albuquerque walked out of class for the "Pull Out the Plug" protest organized by YUCCA, chanting "Stop Project Jupiter" in the Capitol rotunda and marching to Gov. Lujan Grisham's office.
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Students protest at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces — A Sunday protest on the NMSU Las Cruces campus preceded the statewide walkout, part of a coordinated campaign to support a legislative data center moratorium.
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Haaland pledges statewide data center moratorium if elected — Democratic gubernatorial nominee Deb Haaland said that if elected on Nov. 3 she would enact a statewide data center moratorium by executive order immediately upon taking office.