John Vellardita, Clark County Education Association Executive Director
Data centers receive property tax breaks up to 75 percent for 10 or 20 years, contingent on retaining 10 or 50 full time employees
Las Vegas Data Center Expansion
Las Vegas approved a data center expansion while officials considered the need for future data center regulations. It is reported, as reported September 9, 2026.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Switch
- as stated by the source [7]
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Switch | as stated by the source | [7] facebook.com | September 25, 2026 |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Clark County and Las Vegas about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boulder City | Boulder City is fighting an attempt to build a data center on nearby federal land | nevadacurrent.com | |
| Boulder City | Citizens initiative filed asking Boulder City to require voter approval before any future data center approval within city limits | nationofchange.org | |
| Boulder City | Boulder City Planning Commission voted in May 2026 against allowing data centers under city land use rules | nationofchange.org | |
| Boulder City | Local residents will vote on measure in November to determine if Boulder City should change zoning regulations | knpr.org | |
| Boulder City | Boulder City residents will vote in November on measure to change city zoning regulations regarding data centers | wyomingpublicmedia.org |
What happened
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· Status: rumored (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
80 acre federally owned parcel planned for data center [6]
The full Las Vegas Data Center Expansion timeline, in order
4 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the draft of a status history row
Published on a project that was still a draft skeleton and still short of the record's skeleton minimum rule; returned to draft on 2026-09-17 pending the project meeting the rule or a person's approval. The old and new text.
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· the draft of a status history row
Published on a project that was still a draft skeleton and still short of the record's skeleton minimum rule; returned to draft on 2026-09-17 pending the project meeting the rule or a person's approval. The old and new text.
Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
What was said
Clark County Education Association proposes requiring data centers to pay Local School Support Tax, a 2.6 percent tax on retail sales
BLM did not conduct new environmental assessments when Townsite Solar changed project from solar to data center
Every statement about data centers in Nevada, by speaker
2 more statements on this page
Boulder City officials opposed the data center project
The site
Where in Clark County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 9 other published records in Nevada
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada
- How exactly it is located
- County level, the county seat
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Las Vegas Data Center Expansion?
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Switch is the developer, source. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Las Vegas Data Center Expansion say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Las Vegas Data Center Expansion stand today?
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It is reported, as reported September 9, 2026. The newest entry, reported September 9, 2026: 80 acre federally owned parcel planned for data center [6].
What has Las Vegas or Clark County decided about it?
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Boulder City (rated case by case): Boulder City is fighting an attempt to build a data center on nearby federal land (reported September 18, 2026, source); and Boulder City: Citizens initiative filed asking Boulder City to require voter approval before any future data center approval within city limits (reported September 9, 2026, source). 5 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Reporting
- Switch files plans for 605,000-square-foot data center complex at former raceway site - The Business Journals, The Business Journals, August 13, 2026, query feed
- Clark County commissioners OK Switch data center project in southwest Las Vegas - WSFA, WSFA, June 17, 2026, query feed
- Switch’s growth spurt continues with big new project, more money raised - reviewjournal.com, reviewjournal.com, May 5, 2026, query feed
- Switch’s plan to add another data center to Las Vegas HQ moves forward - reviewjournal.com, reviewjournal.com, June 17, 2026, query feed
- Clark County commissioners OK Switch data center project in southwest Las Vegas - WAFB, WAFB, June 17, 2026, query feed
- In Nevada, a data center planned on public land is temporarily halted - NPR Las Vegas, NPR Las Vegas, September 9, 2026, local outlet
- Las Vegas based Switch has gobbled up land in Southern Nevada and borrowed billions of dollars over the past few years, laying the foundation for new data centers amid a rapid industry increase that has rankled communities nationwide. STORY: lvrj.com/p, www.facebook.com, September 14, 2026, local outlet
- TPS concerns, Las Vegas airfare costs and data center tax incentives, Nevada Public Radio KNPR, September 10, 2026, local outlet
- Las Vegas data center expansion approved as officials ponder need for future regulations - Nevada Current, Nevada Current, June 18, 2026, local outlet
- Nevada officials to break ground on transmission project to meet surging data center power demands - Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Sun, September 7, 2026, local outlet
10 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Las Vegas Data Center Expansion", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/las-vegas-data-center-expansion-nv, last verified September 25, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Las Vegas Data Center Expansion", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/las-vegas-data-center-expansion-nv. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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For researchers
- Slug
- las-vegas-data-center-expansion-nv
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/nv/clark-county/las-vegas
- Coordinates
- 36.16722, -115.14861
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Las Vegas), Wikidata, placed at county level
- Coordinate source
- wikidata county seat
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 16, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Case by case
- Published
- 2026-09-05
- Last verified
- 2026-09-25