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Switch Tahoe Reno campus

Switch lists a data center at Reno, Nevada among the sites it operates. It is running; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 8 sources, 2 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

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
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

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast 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

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Switch as stated by the source September 17, 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 Storey County and Reno about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

DateWhoDecisionSource
Storey County Nevada Public Utilities Commission approved two temporary natural gas fired power projects totaling 362 MW in Storey County for data centers news.constructconnect.com

What happened

  1. · Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Switch lists Switch Tahoe Reno campus at Reno, Nevada on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]

The full Switch Tahoe Reno campus timeline, in order

The site

Where in Reno is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Reno, not a building, and the outline is Storey County.

  • This record: Running, 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
Reno, Storey County, Nevada
How exactly it is located
Town level, the center of the city
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 the center of its town.

Keep going

The county Storey County 2 projects on the record. The state Data centers in Nevada Every Nevada project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

4 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

Who is building Switch Tahoe Reno campus?

Switch is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

How much power and water does Switch Tahoe Reno campus say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Switch Tahoe Reno campus stand today?

It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, read on September 14, 2026: Switch lists Switch Tahoe Reno campus at Reno, Nevada on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]

What has Reno or Storey County decided about it?

Storey County: Nevada Public Utilities Commission approved two temporary natural gas fired power projects totaling 362 MW in Storey County for data centers (reported September 21, 2026, source). 1 event is on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. Switch: Locations, Switch, September 14, 2026
  2. Switch: Switch Tahoe Reno campus, Switch, September 14, 2026

Reporting

  1. Video: Switch's Citadel Campus to be world's biggest data center - Reno Gazette Journal, Reno Gazette Journal, February 15, 2017, query feed
  2. Downtown UNR innovation center gets new name, Switch partnership hinted - Reno Gazette Journal, Reno Gazette Journal, May 28, 2015, query feed
  3. The Biggest Little City just scored a big milestone. The Largest data center building in world opens near Reno! - myemail.constantcontact.com, myemail.constantcontact.com, September 30, 2018, query feed
  4. UNR releases 'Innevation Center' renderings, Switch pitching in half million dollars - Reno Gazette Journal, Reno Gazette Journal, May 29, 2015, query feed
  5. Switch announces investment in downtown Reno Innevation Center - unr.edu, unr.edu, May 29, 2015, query feed
  6. Switch to power fast computer system at UNR - Reno Gazette Journal, Reno Gazette Journal, August 2, 2017, query feed

8 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Switch Tahoe Reno campus", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/switch-tahoe-reno-campus-nv, last verified September 17, 2026.

Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page.

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Slug
switch-tahoe-reno-campus-nv
Status value
operational
Stage
Running
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/nv/storey-county/reno
Coordinates
39.5491398, -119.8476064
Location precision
city
Location source
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
Coordinate source
tigerweb city centroid
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 14, 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
Not disclosed
Published
2026-09-14
Last verified
2026-09-17