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Recent Nevada data center news

• 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.
• Jul 13, 2026

  Tract looks to develop 900MW data center park outside Richmond, Virginia

  Tract has announced a pre-application filing to develop the Tuckahoe Technology Park, an 872-acre master-planned data center campus in Goochland County, Virginia.

  • Filed a pre-application for a conditional use permit (CUP) through VALCO Goochland, LLC for land in the county’s technology overlay district (TOD West).
  • The proposed campus would include 12 buildings, reach 900MW at full build-out, and require more than $3 billion in investment; a community meeting is scheduled for July 23.
  • Tract says it aims to make sites zoned, powered, and shovel-ready for other developers, and county officials said negotiations have been ongoing since late 2023.
• Jul 8, 2026

  170MW data center project outside Las Vegas set to move from city-owned to federal land

  Boulder City has announced that Townsite Solar 2, LLC withdrew its application for a proposed data center on city-owned land, while the U.S. Bureau of Land Management separately approved a right-of-way amendment for a data center on an adjacent federal parcel.

  • TS2 withdrew its application for the TS2 Data Center near I-11 and US-95 under Boulder City’s land management process (LMP).
  • The city said the BLM approved TS2’s application last month to amend its right-of-way grant for a data center on an adjacent 80-acre federally owned site; Boulder City is considering a possible appeal.
  • The article says TS2 holds an option to lease 88.5 acres of city land for solar power generation and battery energy storage, but adding data centers would have required a new lease agreement.
  • Townsite Solar had earlier proposed a 150MW-170MW high-density AI data center campus, with construction potentially starting later this year and the first phase launching as soon as 2027; site plans indicated up to six buildings.
  • Boulder City manager Ned Thomas said the council discussion on July 14 will conclude the current process.
• Jul 2, 2026

  Cisco details Live Protect’s real-time threat mitigation capabilities

  Cisco has announced and demoed Live Protect for Nexus infrastructure, a compensating-control security package for data center networks.

  • Live Protect replaces traditional patching cycles with real-time shields that mitigate vulnerabilities without reboots or scheduled downtime, using eBPF through the Tetragon agent embedded in NX-OS.
  • Cisco says the feature is a temporary measure, not a patch, and should be used until a permanent software fix is applied; support is currently for Nexus systems, with campus and branch products expected later this year.
• Jul 2, 2026

  EdgeCore tops outs second data center in Virginia

  EdgeCore has announced it has topped out its 42MW AS02 facility at its Ashburn campus in Sterling, Loudoun County, Virginia.

  • The AS02 building reached topping out this week at 45831 Maries Road and 1501 Moran Road; the campus will total 114MW of critical load across 685,000 square feet at full build-out.
  • EdgeCore said the milestone marks progress at its Ashburn campus and broader growth in northern and central Virginia; the first building, AS01 (72MW), topped out in September 2025 and is due live in November.
  • EdgeCore launched in 2018 and was acquired by Partners Group in 2022, which planned to invest up to $1.2 billion in the acquisition and build-out of data center sites.
  • The company also operates in Silicon Valley, Greater Phoenix, and Reno, Nevada, and is developing additional sites in Virginia, including planned campuses in Culpeper County and Louisa County.
• Jul 1, 2026

  Why a Calmer Summer Outlook Hasn’t Settled the Capacity Question

  The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) released its 2026 Summer Reliability Assessment finding adequate anticipated resources across most regions, driven by about 58 GW of new resources but flagging elevated risk in parts of New England, the Northwest, Saskatchewan, and Far West Texas.

  • Main announcement/action: NERC’s 2026 Summer Reliability Assessment reports ~58 GW of year-on-year new resources (including 30.5 GW solar and 14.7 GW battery storage), upgraded reserves across much of the continent, and identifies local elevated risk areas; the article is a journalistic report synthesizing NERC’s assessment and remarks from EEI 2026 rather than a new primary policy filing. Important concrete figures: 58 GW new capacity, 30.5 GW solar, 14.7 GW battery on-peak capability, Meta $10 billion AI data center (mentioned), NextEra–Dominion $420 billion enterprise value (proposed merger), and Siemens Energy’s >$1 billion U.S. production commitment.
  • Context and details: The piece summarizes reporting and industry commentary from EEI 2026 and analyst interviews, noting deferred data center load expected in 2–3 years, a projected >85 GW incremental gas capacity entering service 2026–2030 (S&P Global projection), workforce and supply-chain constraints, and political/affordability pressures (transmission cost growth, capacity market strains). It is a synthesized industry analysis and not a primary regulatory filing or single-entity press release.
• Jun 30, 2026

  Emergence Water and Nimbus: Water Joins Power as AI Infrastructure's Next Critical Constraint

  Emergence Water and Nimbus announced a partnership and discussed their combined approach to reduce municipal water dependence for AI data centers on a Data Center Frontier podcast episode published June 30, 2026.

  • Partnership and technical details: Emergence Water is pairing modular containerized atmospheric water generation (AWG) units (roughly 1,200 gallons per day per unit; ~410,000 gallons annually estimated for Wichita Falls, TX) with Nimbus’ highly water-efficient adiabatic cooling (Nimbus operates primarily in dry mode and uses water only during high ambient temperatures). The firms claim the adiabatic approach can reduce electrical consumption by 50%–60% versus purely dry cooling and the pairing aims to remove dependence on municipal supply for both construction and operations.
  • Context, regulatory and planning implications: The discussion was delivered as a podcast interview (Data Center Frontier Show, June 30, 2026) and emphasized long-term planning horizons (10–15 years) for water availability, noted a regulatory example (Southern Nevada prohibition on evaporative cooling), and highlighted construction-phase water demand (example: ~1 million gallons per data hall for filling/flushing liquid cooling loops at a Texas AI campus).
• Jun 22, 2026

  Microsoft proposes ratepayer-protection tariff in Nevada

  Microsoft has proposed a ratepayer-protection tariff in Nevada to establish a statewide framework allocating costs for AI-driven data center growth filed with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) of Nevada.

  • Main action: Filed in May with the PUC of Nevada, the proposal would require NV Energy to identify and track substations, generation, and transmission needed for large-load customers on a customer-specific asset schedule; large-load users would pay their project-specific share via upfront or phased payments, with an exit charge if they disconnect before investments are repaid. The plan allows assets originally paid by customers to be transferred into the rate base after commission approval, establishes a new accounting mechanism tracking assets from development through operation, requires service agreements for expected demand/load ramp, and introduces a Bring Your Own Power (BYOP) pathway; developer-funded projects that seek no ratepayer cost recovery may receive a streamlined 60-day approval.

  • Context and background: The filing is framed under Microsoft’s Community-First AI Infrastructure initiative and aligns with the Trump administration’s ratepayer protection pledge (which Microsoft signed in March). The proposal will undergo evaluation, scenario modeling, and public comment before the PUC rules. Microsoft currently does not operate data centers in Nevada, but acquired land in Reno in April of last year for a potential hyperscale site.