Nevada: data centers & your electric bill
As of October 1, 2026, AI GridWatch tracks 9 data center moratoriums or pushback actions in Nevada: 8 in force, 1 expired, rejected or rescinded. The state has 72 tracked data center facilities using an estimated 2.8 TWh of electricity a year.
Everything GridWatch tracks in Nevada on one page — proposed projects, moratoriums, permits, officials, and the 2026 ballot.
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As of July 2026 (3m ago) · changes over months · Source: U.S. Data Center Power Map by State — ElectricChoice.com compilation (updated July 2026; CC-BY 4.0). Underlying load research: LBNL 2024 US Data Center Energy Usage Report; rates: EIA
Facility counts vary by directory because each one draws the boundary differently — DataCenterMap lists 44 in Alabama where this table says 35, since it counts small network rooms alongside hyperscale campuses. Cite the TWh figure rather than the facility count when you can; it is the number that speaks to grid impact. Underlying load research is LBNL-2001637 (Dec 2024).
1Proposed data centers in Nevada (4)
1 still live · 3 decided or withdrawn. Each name links to the full dossier — ownership, intelligence log, and where to read the paper trail.
| Project | Where | Size | Behind it | Stage | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manse Technology Campus (formerly Project Blackjack) | Pahrump (Nye County) | 900 ac | Gigawatt Development | Awaiting decision | Source read 2026-08-14 |
| Monarch Data Center | Yerington (Lyon County) | 1,000 MW | Copia Power | Approved | Source read 2026-08-14 |
| Vantage NV1 (Storey County) | Storey County (near Reno) | 224 MW | Vantage Data Centers | Under construction | Source |
| Google Storey County | Storey County | 161 MW | Source read 2026-08-14 |
2Pushback already happening in Nevada
| Where | Level | Status | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reno | Local | Enactedexpires 2027-08-31 | Extended 6-1 through Aug 2027 while permanent rules are drafted | SourceNews read 2026-08-04 |
| Henderson | Local | Rejectedterm not documented | Council rejected the mayor's 180-day pause after nearly two hours of public comment favouring it, opting for code changes and project-by-project development agreements instead | SourceNews read 2026-08-04 |
| Nye County | Local | Enactedno fixed end — runs until a condition is met | Countywide moratorium on new commercial data-center applications, approved unanimously after the Nye County Water District's governing board raised Pahrump Valley water-supply concerns; stays in place until a regulatory ordinance is adopted rather than a fixed date. On Aug 18, 2026, commissioners voted 5-0 to permanently ban data centers in Hydrographic Basin 162 (Pahrump Valley) via Bill No. 2026-11; rest-of-county moratorium continues pending regulations (Bill No. 2026-14). | SourceNews read 2026-09-11 |
| Humboldt County | Local | Enactedexpires 2027-07-13 | Temporary moratorium on data center applications through Jul 13, 2027 while the county updates land-use rules on water, power and infrastructure; multiple developers had approached the county and its code did not address data centers | SourceRoundup read 2026-09-05 |
| White Pine County | Local | Enactedexpires 2027-01-18 | Resolution 2026-18: 180-day moratorium on accepting, processing or approving land-use applications for data center development while staff draft zoning standards; renewable. End date is 180 days from adoption | SourceNews read 2026-09-05 |
| Wells | City | Enactedterm not documented | Small rural city (Elko County) approved moratorium on data center approvals pending staff recommendations | SourceRoundup read 2026-09-11 |
| Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe | Tribal | Enactedno end date — permanent | Tribal Council passed permanent ban on data centers on tribal homelands; Chairman Steven Wadsworth cited water sovereignty and protecting endangered cui-ui fish. Part of Water Over Data Alliance tribal coalition demanding free, prior, and informed consent for data centers in Truckee River watershed | SourceRoundup read 2026-09-11 |
| Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe | Tribal | Enactedno end date — permanent | First tribe in Northern Nevada to ban data centers on tribal lands; resolution brought by tribal council secretary Philip Johnson | SourceRoundup read 2026-09-11 |
| Nye County (Pahrump) | Local | Enactedno end date — permanent | Bill No. 2026-11: permanent ban on data centers in Hydrographic Basin 162 (Pahrump Valley), 5-0 vote. First total ban in Nevada. Separate from the countywide moratorium (Jun 2 2026) which continues for areas outside Basin 162 | SourceNews read 2026-09-11 |
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
Illustrative rather than exhaustive — dozens of localities churn weekly, and this tracks the ones we have read a source for. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to the ordinance, the enacting body's own page, or a datable report of the vote, and were read on that date. Rows marked *unverified* came from bulk compilation and have not been checked against a primary source — the locality, the year, and the status may all be off. Verify one of those with the town clerk before citing it as precedent. **Expiry is derived, not asserted.** A row with a documented end date flips to *Expired* on its own once that date passes. A time-limited moratorium whose start date was never documented keeps showing as enacted — that is a known gap, not a claim that it is still in force. Moratoriums are also routinely extended, so an expiry date is the earliest it could have ended, not proof that it did.
3Known data center campuses in Nevada
| Operator | Location | Tenant | Filing LLC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henderson | Land-acquisition shells: Jet Stream LLC, Sharka LLC | ||
| Storey County | Land-acquisition shells: Jet Stream LLC, Sharka LLC | ||
| Microsoft | Las Vegas | Microsoft | Project-name / generic 'Holdings LLC'; less consistently codenamed |
| CoreWeave | Las Vegas (Core Campus / LAS1) | — | Mostly TENANT in partners' buildings: Core Scientific, Chirisa/Bulk, Flexential, Lincoln, TierPoint, Digital Realty, DataBank, Switch, Galaxy, Applied Digital |
⏳ No verification date recorded · changes over months · Source: Operator ownership & filing-LLC naming patterns — compiled from operator releases and county filings, then checked against SEC EDGAR full-text search. Composite, not a single citation: look the entity up yourself before naming it in a filing
Each row carries its own attribution level — first-party rows come from the operator's own site, but colocation and REIT ownership was compiled from trade press and never passed an independent fact-check. Check the attribution column before citing a row.
4Every data center already built in Nevada
The campuses above are the ones GridWatch tracks by operator and filing LLC. For the full inventory — street addresses of every existing facility, including the smaller colocation and network sites — DataCenterMap keeps a public directory for Nevada.
Two caveats before you cite it at a hearing: it lists facilities that already exist, so a newly proposed campus will not appear; and it counts a small network room the same as a hyperscale campus, so the facility count is not a measure of power draw or community impact.
5Your regulator
Public Utilities Commission of Nevada — website · file a complaint
Official state energy data: EIA Nevada electricity profile — generation, prices, and consumption from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
6Where the Nevada paper trail lives
Air & environmental permits: Nevada DEP — Bureau of Air Pollution Control
No searchable register. Nevada does not publish a permit database you can query. A public-records request to the agency is the only route to the file.
No organised market. There is no interconnection queue to read here; the utility's own resource plan and the PUC docket are the record.
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.
7Clark County — Board of County Commissioners
Meets: See the county's published Commission meeting calendar. · Clark County Government Center, 500 S Grand Central Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89106
Public comment: See the county's published agenda for the public-comment process for a specific meeting.
Source: https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/07/08/clark-county-commission · as of 2026-08-12
8Nye County — Board of County Commissioners
Meets: 1st and 3rd Tuesday 10:00 a.m., alternating between Tonopah and Pahrump chambers · 2100 E. Walt Williams Dr., Pahrump, NV 89048 (Pahrump sessions)
Public comment: Three-minute limit per speaker. Remote callers give first/last name, press *5 to queue. Comment on non-agenda items must be within BOCC jurisdiction.
Source: https://www.nyecountynv.gov/552/Board-of-County-Commissioner · as of 2026-08-18
9Your federal delegation and governor
Grades cross party — this is an issue axis, not a partisan one. A blank grade means no documented action was located, never that the official is neutral.
| Grade | Official | Documented action (sourced) | Reach them |
|---|---|---|---|
| C | Joe Lombardo Republican · Governor | Backs data-center projects but requires closed-loop water recycling to limit consumption. — Gov. Lombardo backs data centers with closed-loop water rule (2026) | site · contact |
| — | Catherine Cortez Masto Democratic · Senator · next on the ballot 2028 | No documented action on data centers located Guardrails Requested FY2027 earmark funding for a Desert Research Institute tool to help Nevadans weigh the water, energy and community trade-offs of rapid data-center growth. sources | site · contact |
| — | Jacky Rosen Democratic · Senator · next on the ballot 2030 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Dina Titus Democratic · Representative 1 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Mark E. Amodei Republican · Representative 2 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Susie Lee Democratic · Representative 3 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Steven Horsford Democratic · Representative 4 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
Roster: regenerated by scripts/refresh_officials.py (Senate XML + congress-legislators + current governors).
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102026 U.S. Senate
Neither Nevada Senate seat is on the 2026 ballot. Your senators are still the people who vote on federal siting and tax policy — their records are in the delegation table above.
112026 U.S. House races in Nevada (4)
A documented data-center record exists in 4 of 4 districts. A candidate with no badge colour has said nothing we could locate — that is a gap in the record, not a neutral position. ★ marks an incumbent.
| District | PVI | Incumbent | Candidates |
|---|---|---|---|
| NV-1 | D+2 | Dina Titus | Carrie Buck Dina Titus ★ Anthony Thomas Bobby Khan Steven St. John Victor Willert |
| NV-2 | R+7 | Mark Amodei | David Flippo Teresa Benitez-Thompson Lynn Chapman |
| NV-3 | D+1 | Susie Lee | Martin O'Donnell Susie Lee ★ David Anderson Dean Johnson Jon Kamerath |
| NV-4 | D+2 | Steven Horsford | Cody Whipple Steven Horsford ★ Gary Steele Russell Best William Johnson |
The documented records (4 districts)
NV-1
Carrie Buck (Republican) Accelerate
Wants to make it easier to build AI energy and infrastructure
- NV Independent survey: federal government should 'make it easier to build the energy and infrastructure America needs to lead in AI' (2026-08-01 — source)
Record read 2026-09-11.
Dina Titus (Democratic) · incumbent Guardrails
Multiple actions demanding BLM transparency on data center permits, called for tax abatement freeze, and fought federal land data center approvals
- Letter to BLM demanding robust public consultation and transparency for data center permits on public lands; criticized switch from solar to data center without public review (2026-07-08 — source)
- Called on Gov. Lombardo to freeze all data center tax breaks for projects on federal land until 2027 Legislature can act; cited $225.6M in sales/use tax breaks and $13.3M in property tax breaks (2026-07-23 — source)
- NV Independent survey: favors local community input before federal land use; supports full environmental permitting with water consideration and public hearings (2026-08-01 — source)
- Voted yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed 417-3 (roll call 312). It directs state utility commissions to consider rate designs making data centers with 100 MW or more of peak demand at one site pay the full incremental cost of the generation and grid upgrades they require. A near-unanimous vote: shown on the record, not scored on its own. (2026-09-16 — source)
Record read 2026-09-11.
NV-2
David Flippo (Republican) Mixed
Opposes tax abatements for data centers; supports local decision-making but would support federal involvement for national security
- NV Independent survey: 'The best decisions are made at the most local level possible.' Opposes tax abatements; would support federal involvement only for national security protection (2026-08-01 — source)
Record read 2026-09-11.
Teresa Benitez-Thompson (Democratic) Guardrails
Supports local control over data center regulation; opposes federal preemption of state/local authority
- NV Independent survey: does not want federal actions to prevent state or local governments from taking their own regulatory action on data centers (2026-08-01 — source)
Record read 2026-09-11.
NV-3
Martin O'Donnell (Republican) Guardrails
Supports legislation ensuring local communities are not negatively affected; backs water usage disclosure
- NV Independent survey: supports legislation ensuring local communities are not negatively affected by data centers; backs water usage disclosure requirements (2026-08-01 — source)
Record read 2026-09-11.
Susie Lee (Democratic) · incumbent Mixed
Toured Switch AI factory approvingly; opposes federal pause on development but supports disclosure requirements
- Toured Switch AI factory in Las Vegas with House Democratic Leader Jeffries; praised Switch for 'bringing the cutting edge of AI innovation right here to southern Nevada' and creating good-paying jobs (2025-08-29 — source)
- NV Independent survey: supports water consumption disclosure and energy efficiency standards; opposes blanket federal pause on development (2026-08-01 — source)
- Voted yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed 417-3 (roll call 312). It directs state utility commissions to consider rate designs making data centers with 100 MW or more of peak demand at one site pay the full incremental cost of the generation and grid upgrades they require. A near-unanimous vote: shown on the record, not scored on its own. (2026-09-16 — source)
Record read 2026-09-11.
NV-4
Cody Whipple (Republican) Guardrails
Supports common-sense frameworks safeguarding natural resources; calls data centers a national security issue
- NV Independent survey: supports 'common-sense frameworks that safeguard Nevada's natural resources while fostering technological innovation'; calls data centers national security issue; wants federal standards bringing water, agriculture, and tech officials together (2026-08-01 — source)
Record read 2026-09-11.
Steven Horsford (Democratic) · incumbent Mixed
Partners with OpenAI on AI workforce training and opposes moratorium but supports disclosure requirements and worker protections
- Joined OpenAI and Rep. Khanna at College of Southern Nevada for AI workforce training; helped secure nearly $7M for CSN Westside Education and Training Center (2026-04-24 — source)
- NV Independent survey: supports federal disclosure standards for energy and water use; states should be able to go further than federal baselines; opposes blanket moratorium (2026-08-01 — source)
- Joined Rep. Khanna and Las Vegas unions to discuss AI/automation threats to workers; advocated advance notice, training, and collective bargaining as accountability tool (2026-08-20 — source)
- Voted yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed 417-3 (roll call 312). It directs state utility commissions to consider rate designs making data centers with 100 MW or more of peak demand at one site pay the full incremental cost of the generation and grid upgrades they require. A near-unanimous vote: shown on the record, not scored on its own. (2026-09-16 — source)
Record read 2026-09-11.
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