issues with the project id

[nicktackes]

Using the simple example for cloud translation, I provide a project id for a billable project where cloud translate api is enabled. I unfortunately get an error message indicating that my project has not enabled the cloud translation api. The project in the error message is not my project!! The id i provided is something different. In my google cloud console, i have an organization with multiple projects. The id is a generated id with words and numbers, which as you can see doesnt match the project in the error.
Any ideas why the project id would change from request to response?

 Error: Cloud Translation API has not been used in project 45256293496 before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/translate.googleapis.com/overview?project=45256293496 then retry. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate to our systems and retry.

const projectId = "my project id"
// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Translate} = require('@google-cloud/translate').v2;

// Instantiates a client
const translate = new Translate({projectId});

[nicktackes]

can i use an api key to call the api? seems pretty difficult to figure out all of the myriad of mechanisms to connect although the project id doesnt seem very easy to use?