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Recent Nevada data center news

• Aug 24, 2026

  Solar's Global Building Season: Five Countries, One Week, Billions in New Commitments

  The article is a news analysis roundup describing multiple solar and storage financing and project developments across five countries, rather than a single new corporate announcement.

  • Sol Systems acquired the 200 MWac Lumberton Solar Project in Hardin County, Texas from DESRI on August 21; the piece frames Texas as a major solar and load-growth market driven by data centre demand.
  • The roundup also cites Egypt’s West Minya project at roughly $764 million total cost with a $560 million EPC contract, EDF Power Solutions North America’s two 25-year PPAs with NV Energy for a 400 MWac solar + 400 MW/1,600 MWh battery project in Nevada due in October 2029, AMPIN Energy Transition’s about $195 million financing, Recurrent Energy’s roughly $695 million financing, and ATOME’s feasibility-study backing for a proposed 300 MWp solar project in Villeta, Paraguay.
• Aug 20, 2026

  EdgeCore Says Data Centers Should Pay Their Own Power Costs

  EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure says it will fund the generation, transmission, and delivery infrastructure needed for its expanding data center campuses.

  • Julie Brewer, EdgeCore’s executive vice president of finance, said the company expects to bear 100% of the costs for power infrastructure and may walk away from a project if power economics are not workable.
  • EdgeCore’s pipeline includes a more than 1.1 GW campus in Louisa County, Virginia, a 496 MW campus in Mesa, Arizona, and a 216 MW campus in Reno, Nevada; it also secured $1.5 billion in construction financing this year for two fully leased hyperscale facilities in Northern Virginia and said the Louisa County campus represents more than $17 billion in planned investment.
  • The article explains the White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge, SRP’s Large Customer Integration Process launched in 2025, and SRP’s updated E-67 price plan requiring large customers to meet minimum billing requirements and pay for dedicated transmission and substation service.
• Aug 19, 2026

  List of AI companies turning to old and rare books for AI training

  Amazon has been reported to be buying old, obscure and rare books and sending them for destructive scanning at its Las Vegas facility VGT3, according to an investigation by 404 Media.

  • 404 Media said it tracked a rare book with a device to Amazon facility VGT3 in Las Vegas; workers reportedly remove spines, scan pages, and discard physical copies.
  • Amazon said it buys books through commercial channels, but did not say how many books it purchases or whether it preserves rare titles; booksellers in Europe and Ireland reported suspicious bulk orders, including 5,000 obscure titles to Kennys.
  • The article also compares Amazon’s practice with similar AI-book uses by Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, and Google; it cites Anthropic’s Project Panama, Meta’s discussion of buying Simon & Schuster and paying $10 per book, and Anthropic’s later $1.5 billion settlement over pirated books.
• Aug 18, 2026

  Data Center Hardware Highlights: August 2026

  Data Center Knowledge has highlighted a shift in AI hardware coverage from GPUs toward infrastructure-first constraints across energy, minerals, grid access, and networking.

  • The roundup says AI buildouts are increasingly limited by power, copper, grid interconnects, transformers, turbines, and permitting, while rack-scale integration and the network supercycle are becoming more important.
  • The article also references several reported developments, including Nvidia’s $500B infrastructure bet, TSMC’s $265B Arizona campus expansion, and AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI system; it is commentary and synthesis rather than a single first-time corporate announcement.
• Aug 6, 2026

  Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng Clash Over AI Risks and Regulation at Ai4

  Three AI researchers discussed the future of artificial intelligence at the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, with Geoffrey Hinton warning of superintelligence and job displacement, Andrew Ng defending open-weight models and productivity gains, and Fei-Fei Li calling for practical governance and public investment.

  • The session, titled “The Architects of Intelligence: A Historic Convergence,” featured Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng debating AI capability timelines, worker displacement, open-weight models, and government regulation.
  • The article is a conference report / commentary, not a first-time product or funding announcement; it frames how the panel’s views relate to data center infrastructure investment and the broader global data center industry.
• Aug 5, 2026

  ‘GPUs Suck’: Former Intel CEO Slams Data Center Hardware Limitations

  Pat Gelsinger and OpenAI’s Sachin Katti used an Ai4 2026 keynote discussion to argue that AI’s next gains depend on infrastructure, energy, and economics rather than simply more GPUs.

  • Gelsinger said today’s GPUs are power inefficient and computationally limited, arguing AI progress requires more semiconductors, data centers, communications infrastructure, and redesigns across packaging, memory, networking, and system architecture.
  • Katti said the industry must convince governments, utilities, and manufacturers to invest across the infrastructure stack; he cited bottlenecks in US data center construction, energy availability, fab and memory capacity, and said OpenAI wants to cut deployment time from three years to three quarters.
  • The discussion was framed as a keynote at Ai4 2026 in Las Vegas on August 4, 2026; it was commentary and analysis rather than a new corporate announcement.
• Jul 28, 2026

  Climate Change Solutions - July 28, 2026

  Environmental and Energy Study Institute has published a Climate Change Solutions newsletter highlighting climate data access, data center health impacts, nuclear energy, and several congressional bills.

  • The newsletter spotlights a new online platform, Climate.us, and an interview with Rebecca Lindsey, who discusses filling the gap left by the now-defunct Climate.gov.
  • It also summarizes recent legislative activity, including the House passage of the Next-Generation Geothermal Research and Development Act (H.R. 8790) and Senate movement on the Water Resources Development Act of 2026 (S.4949) and the Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act of 2026 (S.5045).
  • A separate article in the newsletter discusses data center health impacts, noting emissions from on-site diesel generators and from natural gas and coal power plants used to power data centers.
• Jul 23, 2026

  White House Expands Data Center Ratepayer Pledge as Congress Moves to Codify Protections

  The White House expanded its voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge to 187 utilities, electric cooperatives, and data-center developers, while Congress advanced the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act from committee 52-0.

  • The White House said the pledge now covers 187 organizations plus 23 governors, and the coalition “protects” 263 million Americans; signatories commit to fund generation and grid upgrades for their data-center loads without shifting costs to other ratepayers.
  • The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced H.R. 9340 on July 21; the bill would require state regulators and nonregulated utilities to consider a large-load standard for sites with at least 100 MW peak demand and recover the full incremental cost of grid upgrades. New York’s Executive Order 62 separately put permits for 50 MW+ data centers on hold pending an environmental review.
• Jul 23, 2026

  Tesla’s energy division gross margin declines 19% despite battery storage deployment rebound

  Tesla has reported its Q2 2026 financial results and said energy storage deployments rebounded, while also linking future demand to data centre growth and electrification.

  • Energy storage deployments reached 13.5GWh in Q2 2026, up from 8.8GWh in Q1 2026; energy generation and storage revenue was US$3.14 billion.
  • CFO Vaibhav Taneja said energy gross margin fell from 39.5% to 20.4% due to a US$240 million warranty true-up, the absence of US$200 million in tariff benefits seen in Q1, and lower ASPs amid competition.
  • CEO Elon Musk said production of Megapack 3 will begin soon at Tesla’s new Texas Megafactory, and that SpaceX has bought “many Megapacks for the data centres.”
  • Tesla said its 7GWh LFP production capacity at the Nevada Gigafactory remains in early ramp, and the company disclosed a US$4.3 billion LFP supply agreement with LG Energy Solution for US-made cells.
• Jul 20, 2026

  Data centres, rising demand, and Alberta's energy bills

  The Pembina Institute published an analysis arguing that Alberta’s proposed approach to powering data centres could raise electricity costs and emissions, and urging better policy on grid access, efficiency, storage, and flexible demand.

  • The article says Alberta’s BYOG (bring your own generation) framework would effectively require new data centres to add gas-fired generation, limiting cleaner options even when renewables and storage could be cheaper and faster to build.
  • It cites Meta’s recently announced 1,800 MW data centre in Sturgeon County and says the project was acknowledged by Alberta officials as carrying up to a 6% decrease on the transmission portion of consumer bills, equal to about $1.50/month for the average household.
  • The piece is commentary/analysis, not a fresh project announcement, and it references other jurisdictions such as Nevada, Texas, and Minnesota as examples of data-centre power procurement using cleaner resources.