Manse Technology Campus (formerly Project Blackjack) Awaiting decision
Gigawatt Development proposes a ~900-acre, multi-phase technology campus south of Carpenter Canyon Road along SR-160 at the south end of Pahrump Valley, pledging closed-loop cooling using under 300 acre-feet of water per year (~1.5% of the Pahrump Basin's annual yield) on water rights it already owns, with no tax abatements sought; the application predates the county's June 2026 temporary moratorium on new data center applications. The 'August vote' was on Nye County Bill 2026-11, a proposed ban on data centers in communities without elected town boards: at the Aug 4 commission meeting it did not come to a vote, and commissioners instead moved toward putting the question to voters, with a possible special election (earliest January 2027) to be discussed Aug 18.
Key facts
- Operator
- Gigawatt Development
- Size
- 900 ac
- Location
- Pahrump (Nye County), Nevada
- Hearing
- 2026-08-18
- Stage today
- Awaiting decision
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: Heard 2026-08-18; decision pending. Call the board clerk for the vote date and get on the notification list.
What has happened so far (8 events)
- 2026-07-15filing
Manse Technology Campus LLC was formed as a Nevada limited liability company, the entity behind Gigawatt Development's proposed Pahrump data center campus. · source - 2026-07-18protest
Several dozen Pahrump residents rallied at the intersection of Highway 160 and Highway 372 as part of the AI Data Center National Day of Protest, citing concerns about the town's sole-source aquifer, electricity costs, and noise. · source - 2026-07-18report
Pahrump resident Justyne Lobello hosted an 'AI and Data Centers: 101' educational presentation at the Pahrump Community Library at 1 p.m., drawing a large crowd of concerned residents amid the proposed data center development. · source - 2026-07-21announcement
Manse Technology issued a press release announcing project details, describing an estimated $18.4 billion technology campus with no property tax abatements proposed. · source - 2026-07-25hearing
Nye County held a town hall/forum on the proposed Manse Technology Campus at the commission building in Pahrump; a large crowd attended inside and outside the venue, with residents opposing the project chiefly over water use. · source - 2026-08-03hearing
The Manse Technology Campus team scheduled a public informational meeting for August 3 at 6 p.m. at the Pahrump Nugget Events Center to present the project and take questions. · source - 2026-08-04hearing
Nye County Bill 2026-11, a proposed ban on data centers in areas without elected town boards, did not come to a vote; Commissioner Jabbour successfully moved to pursue a ballot question instead, with a possible special election to be discussed Aug 18. Over 3,400 people signed a petition supporting the ban and hundreds attended, most speaking against data center development. · source - 2026-08-06hearing
The Nye County Water District Governing Board held a roughly two-and-a-half-hour discussion on August 6 featuring a presentation on the proposed Manse Technology Campus by Russ Meads of Double M Construction. · 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 Pahrump (Nye 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 Pahrump (Nye 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 36.210, -115.980 — 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
- Nye County community briefing — Enactedno fixed end — runs until a condition is met
- Nevada briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Manse Technology Campus (formerly Project Blackjack)”, aigridwatch.com/projects/pahrump-manse-technology-campus, retrieved 2026-10-11.
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