City Hall is shown successful Boulder City, Nevada, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. Photo by: Wade Vandervort
By Las Vegas Sun Staff (contact)
Tuesday, July 7, 2026 | 3:15 p.m.
A planned data halfway successful Boulder City that faced disapproval from thousands of residents won’t be going forward, arsenic the developer has withdrawn its application, the metropolis announced today.
The TS2 Data Center, which had been planned near I-11 and US-95 has been scrapped for present by developer Townsite Solar 2, LLC, which withdrew its application. The facility had been approved by the Bureau of Land Management on June 26, according to a Boulder City quality release.
The steadfast inactive holds the option to lease approximately 88.5 acres of city-owned onshore for star powerfulness procreation and artillery vigor retention until Dec. 31.
Since 2023, TS2 has besides held a Right-of-Way assistance issued by BLM connected an an adjacent 80-acre site.
The institution initially submitted its onshore absorption process exertion for a information halfway alternatively of its archetypal plans to the City of Boulder City in late 2025.
This would have required a caller lease agreement, and the metropolis required the developer to commencement astatine “square one” of the Land Management Process (LMP), to guarantee that the assemblage had an accidental to comment on the projected caller information halfway use, the merchandise stated. Boulder City’s unsocial LMP is the archetypal step toward determining the viability of the lease of city-owned property.
Around the aforesaid time, successful precocious 2025, Townsite Solar besides applied to the BLM to amend its ROW Grant for a information center. On June 26, the BLM granted the amended ROW Grant, and determination is simply a 30-day entreaty period.
In May, the Planning Commission voted 6-1 to urge that the City Council not o.k. adding data centers to the LMP List, citing successful portion the request for much regulatory oversight regarding this use.
Despite TS2’s withdrawal of its LMP application, the City Council volition inactive person the Planning Commission’s proposal and discuss the connection astatine its meeting July 14.
Initial estimates for the yearly lease worth for a information halfway were approximately $1.47 cardinal (and a competitory bid process would have likely yielded even more) — successful summation to spot taxes, permit fees,and administrative charges — each totaling astir $2.3 million successful caller gross per twelvemonth — for Boulder City. These revenues would have helped cover to the increasing costs of providing assemblage services specified arsenic police, fire, exigency response, utilities and more.
These facilities already devour adjacent to a 4th of Nevada’s electricity, according to a 2026 Desert Research Institute survey that projects the fig volition much than treble by 2033. The state’s largest information center, Google’s Henderson facility, consumed astatine least 205 cardinal gallons of h2o to chill its systems successful 2024 alone, according to the company’s 2025 biology report. It did so using the aforesaid evaporative cooling exertion that the Southern Nevada Water Authority has since banned for caller information halfway projects.
A change.org petition had collected much than 6,200 signatures against the project.
“Since February, the City has followed the City’s LMP to facilitate an unfastened and transparent treatment with residents astir the anticipation of leasing City land for a information center,” City Manager Ned Thomas stated in the release. “The Council treatment on July 14 volition reason the existent process.”
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