Nevada
DataCentersExposed tracks 16 AI data centers in Nevada — 5 operating and 1 in the pipeline — across 2 counties, drawing 825 MW of reported power demand from 6 tracked corporate operators. Nevada's data-center tax break cost local governments $80.7M in forgone revenue in FY2025.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
DataCentersExposed tracks 16 data centers in Nevada — 5 operating and 1 proposed. The 3 Nevada facilities with disclosed electrical capacity account for 825 MW of demand on the grid — power that competes with homes and businesses for the same generation and transmission.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
Nevada at a glance
The largest footprint in Nevada belongs to Switch, Inc., behind 11 tracked facilities. Alphabet Inc., Flexential Corp., and Apple Inc. round out the most active operators in the state. Many of these sites are filed under shell or project names rather than the parent's — our operator column resolves them back to the real corporate parent wherever the chain is documented.
Geographically, the buildout clusters: Clark County leads Nevada with 22 facilities and a composite risk score of 39/100. Storey County follow. Our county risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%); the full breakdown is shown on each county page.
Nevada is not done growing. 1 facility is in the pipeline — proposed, permitted, or under construction — which is where residents still have a say at zoning hearings and in rate cases. Each pending project is a decision about land, water, electricity prices, and tax revenue that hasn't been finalized.
We also surface the accountability trail: 6 recent news items are tracked for Nevada below, pulled from LegiScan and GDELT and refreshed automatically. Legislation is linked to the counties and operators it names; news is classified by community sentiment.
Top operators in Nevada
The taxpayer price tag
“FY2025 data-center (360.754) grand totals: $29,699,999 (Consolidated Tax) + $34,319,999 (Local School Support Tax) + $16,714,676 (Local Option Taxes) = $80,734,674. Report header: 'Reported below is the gross dollar amount, on an accrual ba…”
Program-wide cost of Nevada's data-center tax incentive(s), reported by the state — not attributable to a single facility. “Proj” = the state's own forward estimate; all other figures are realized/audited. Each links to its primary source.
County risk leaderboard
| County | Facilities | Pipeline | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clark County | 22 | 1 | 39 |
| Storey County | 1 | — | 4 |
Pipeline & proposals
All tracked facilities
| Facility | Operator | Status | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Henderson (proposed) | Alphabet Inc. | Proposed | Clark | 600 |
| Apple Las Vegas | Apple Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | 220 |
| DataBank Las Vegas LAS1 | DataBank Holdings, Ltd. | Clark | — | |
| Fiberhub LAS1 | — | Clark | — | |
| Flexential Las Vegas - Downtown | Flexential Corp. | Clark | — | |
| Flexential Las Vegas - North | Flexential Corp. | Clark | — | |
| Alphabet Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — | |
| Alphabet Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — | |
| Jasmine Development LLC | — | CLARK | — | |
| Switch | — | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |
| Switch Edge 1 | Switch, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |
| Switch Las Vegas 10 | Switch, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |
| Switch Las Vegas 11 | Switch, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |
| Switch Las Vegas 12 | Switch, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |
| Switch Las Vegas 14 | Switch, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |
| Switch Las Vegas 4 | Switch, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |
| Switch Las Vegas 5 | Switch, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |
| Switch Las Vegas 7 | Switch, Inc. | Clark | — | |
| Switch Las Vegas 8 | Switch, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |
| Switch Las Vegas 9 | Switch, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |
| Switch Tahoe Reno - The Citadel Campus | Switch, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Storey | — |
| Switch12 | — | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |
| Verizon North Las Vegas | Verizon Communications Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Clark | — |