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
Data centers in Clark County, Nevada
Clark County has 6 data centers on the record: 4 running, 1 proposed and 1 stalled or cancelled. No county rule about data centers is on the record for Clark County itself; Boulder City, inside it, decides new data centers one at a time. The latest decision on the record: Citizens initiative filed asking Boulder City to require voter approval before any future data center approval within city limits (Boulder City), September 9, 2026.
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The 6 data centers in Clark County
Newest activity firstEach row is one site with its stage, its latest dated entry and what its sources disclose. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed.
Boulder City BLM Land Data Center
Boulder City, Clark County
Latest, reported September 24, 2026: Skylar Opportunities LLC withdrew application for 1000 megawatt data center on 680 acres of federal land near Henderson due to city planned urban development efforts in same area reviewjournal.com local outlet
- Land
- 680 acresthird party estimate
- Power
- 167 MWthird party estimate
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Novva Las Vegas data center
Las Vegas, Clark County · Novva Data Centers
No dated entry on the record yet.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Switch Las Vegas campus
Las Vegas, Clark County · Switch
Latest, reported September 15, 2026: Switch acquired approximately 176 acres at Apex Industrial Park in North Las Vegas fox5vegas.com local outlet
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Las Vegas Data Center Expansion
Las Vegas, Clark County · Switch
Latest, reported September 9, 2026: 80 acre federally owned parcel planned for data center knpr.org local outlet
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Where
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6 data centers in Clark County: 4 running, 1 proposed, 1 stalled or cancelled. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.
The cities in Clark County on the record (3)
| City | Projects | Rules | How it treats data centers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Las Vegas | 4 | 0 | not rated |
| Boulder City | 1 | 1 | |
| Henderson | 1 | 0 | not rated |
What Clark County has decided
1 body, 2 decisions on the recordWhat the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.
Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own. A month with no day: the source names the month and not the day.
- Boulder Citycity
Citizens initiative filed asking Boulder City to require voter approval before any future data center approval within city limits, reported September 9, 2026.
2 acts on this row
- filing
Citizens initiative filed asking Boulder City to require voter approval before any future data center approval within city limits
- denial
Boulder City Planning Commission voted in May 2026 against allowing data centers under city land use rules
- filing
What happened
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· Boulder City BLM Land Data Center
Cancelled: Skylar Opportunities LLC withdrew application for 1000 megawatt data center on 680 acres of federal land near Henderson due to city planned urban development efforts in same area reviewjournal.com local outlet
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· Boulder City
Filing: Citizens initiative filed asking Boulder City to require voter approval before any future data center approval within city limits nationofchange.org local outlet
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· Las Vegas Data Center Expansion
Now reported: 80 acre federally owned parcel planned for data center knpr.org local outlet
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· Boulder City BLM Land Data Center
Now reported: BLM authorized Townsite Solar 2 to use approximately 80 acres of federal land for a 19 megawatt solar generating facility and 35 megawatt battery storage system in 2023 lasvegassun.com local outlet
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· Boulder City
Denial: Boulder City Planning Commission voted in May 2026 against allowing data centers under city land use rules nationofchange.org local outlet
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
Boulder City officials opposed the data center project
Every Nevada statement, by speaker
2 more statements on this page
DataBank CEO Raul K. Martynek said the purchase aligns with DataBank's strategy of owning the largest edge data center footprint in the United States.
Disclosed figures
167 MW power
Power, water, jobs and tax
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Not disclosed | Basis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | 167 MW | 1 | 5 | 1 third party estimate | |
| Water, stated per day | Not disclosed | 0 | 6 | Not disclosed by any of the 6 records | |
| Water, stated per year | Not disclosed | 0 | 6 | Not disclosed by any of the 6 records | |
| Permanent jobs | Not disclosed | 0 | 6 | Not disclosed by any of the 6 records | |
| Tax each year | Not disclosed | 0 | 6 | Not disclosed by any of the 6 records |
Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.
By what the facilities are for
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not disclosed | 6 | 167 MW | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed: water, jobs, tax each year |
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
What the facilities are for
No source on file states what any of the 6 tracked facilities in Clark County are for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 6 tracked facilities in Clark County are cooled.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Clark County, Nevada", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/nv/clark-county, updated October 6, 2026.
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