I have a couple of scripts that I want to run outside of the NextJS server process, and the scripts live in the same directory. This is how you load up the environment.

For example, test/image.mjs:

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  import pkg from "@next/env";
  const { loadEnvConfig } = pkg;
  const projectDir = process.cwd(); // Your project's root directory
  const dev = process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production"; // Check if in development mode

  // Load the environment variables
  loadEnvConfig(projectDir, dev);

  console.log("Loaded environment variables:", process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY);

And then

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  node test/image.mjs