Google Storey County
Chip types: TPU v5e,TPU v6e. Epoch AI estimates ~161 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- Owner
- Tenant
- Google DeepMind
- Size
- 161 MW
- Location
- Storey County, Nevada
- Stage today
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: Already operating — the leverage now is enforcement: noise and water conditions, tax revenue tracking, and any expansion filing, which reopens the record.
What has happened so far (9 events)
- 2017-04-17announcement
Google purchased more than 1,200 acres near the Tesla Gigafactory at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center in Storey County for over $29 million, with plans to build a data center. · source - 2020-09-16incentive
The Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development board approved Google (Design, LLC) for a $25 million tax abatement package (2% sales tax abatement for 20 years worth $16.8 million and 75% personal property tax abatement for 20 years worth $8.25 million) for a $600 million data center at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center in Storey County, expected to create at least 50 jobs. · source - 2020-09-22announcement
Google formally announced a $600 million data center investment at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center in Storey County, expected to be fully operational in 2021 and employ at least 50 people at an average wage of $31.29 per hour. · source - 2021-01-01operational
Google's Storey County data center became operational in 2021, per Google's own site listing and multiple reports confirming the facility was built in 2021. · source - 2023-11-28operational
Google announced that its partnership with Fervo Energy had produced an operational 3.5 MW enhanced geothermal power project in Nevada, delivering carbon-free electricity to the grid serving Google's data centers on a 24/7 basis. · source - 2024-06-07utility
NV Energy filed a proposed Clean Transition Tariff with the Nevada Public Utilities Commission to purchase 115 MW of enhanced geothermal power from Fervo Energy's Corsac Station project and supply it to Google's Storey County data centers. · source - 2024-08-27announcement
Google announced plans to invest more than $400 million in Nevada in 2024 to expand its data center campuses in Storey and Clark counties, bringing total state investment to over $2.2 billion since 2019. · source - 2025-05-13ruling
The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada approved the Clean Transition Tariff enabling NV Energy to procure 115 MW of Fervo Energy enhanced geothermal power and supply it to Google's Nevada data centers. · source - 2025-05-20coverage
MIT Technology Review reported that Google's Storey County facility withdrew 1.9 million gallons and consumed 200,000 gallons of water in 2023 using air-cooling technology, and that Google declined to specify the scale of its planned expansion. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Nevada DEP — Bureau of Air Pollution ControlThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- Search Nevada DEP — Bureau of Air Pollution Control for this projectsearchThis state publishes no searchable permit database, so a written records request to the agency is the reliable route. Use this search only to find the right office.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Storey County planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Storey County property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- No organised market covers this statenoteThere is no public queue to read. The record is the utility's integrated resource plan and its filings at the PUC — plus FERC eLibrary for anything federally docketed.
- Public Utilities Commission of Nevada — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 39.520, -119.540 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Around here
- Nevada briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Nevada
- Monarch Data Center — Yerington (Lyon County), 42 mi Approved
- Manse Technology Campus (formerly Project Blackjack) — Pahrump (Nye County), 300 mi Awaiting decision
- Vantage NV1 (Storey County) — Storey County (near Reno) Under construction
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Google Storey County”, aigridwatch.com/projects/google-storey-county, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.
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