City Hall is shown successful Boulder City, Nevada, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. Photo by: Wade Vandervort
By Las Vegas Sun Staff (contact)
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 | 2 a.m.
Townsite Solar 2, LLC, the developer down a projected AI information halfway adjacent Interstate 11 and U.S. Highway 95, has withdrawn its exertion from Boulder City’s Land Management Process, metropolis officials announced Tuesday.
The withdrawal does not extremity the project. On June 26, the national Bureau of Land Management approved Townsite Solar 2’s exertion to amend its right-of-way assistance connected an adjacent 80-acre federally owned parcel to let information halfway use. A 30-day entreaty play connected that national support is underway.
Townsite Solar 2’s enactment follows months of fierce assemblage absorption and a Boulder City Planning Commission ballot successful May recommending against the project. Despite the withdrawal, the Boulder City Council volition inactive instrumentality up the connection astatine its gathering adjacent week, the metropolis said.
The Boulder City Planning Commission voted successful May to cull the Townsite Solar 2 information halfway exertion pursuing much than 3 hours of nationalist opposition. According to the city’s quality release, the committee voted 6-1 to urge that the assembly not o.k. adding information centers to the Land Management Process list, citing the request for much regulatory oversight.
Townsite Solar 2, an affiliate of Skylar Capital Management, archetypal applied successful January to make a information halfway connected 88.5 acres of city-owned onshore it holds an enactment to lease. The institution had primitively held that enactment for star powerfulness procreation and artillery vigor storage; the enactment expires Dec. 31. The metropolis required the developer to restart the Land Management Process — the city’s modular archetypal measurement for evaluating imaginable leases of city-owned onshore — due to the fact that converting the parcel to a information halfway would necessitate a caller lease agreement.
The task drew hundreds of residents successful opposition, who organized protests, planted hand-painted gait signs passim the assemblage and flooded nationalist meetings. A Change.org petition opposing the task gathered much than 6,000 signatures.
Residents raised concerns astir h2o consumption, vigor use, vigor and noise, and the project’s wide acceptable with Boulder City’s character. The assemblage has a agelong past of rejecting commercialized sprawl; it remains 1 of lone 2 Nevada communities — Panaca is the different — to prohibit gambling.
NV Energy, Nevada’s largest utility, has said it needs to summation vigor accumulation by 3 times the magnitude needed to powerfulness Las Vegas to accommodate projected information centers statewide, and has acknowledged it volition beryllium incapable to scope those goals without fossil fuels.
City Manager Ned Thomas said the city’s process served its intended purpose, contempt Townsite Solar 2’s alteration successful plans.
“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 onshore for a information center,” Thomas said successful the release. “The Council treatment connected July 14 volition reason the existent process.”
Initial estimates placed the yearly lease worth of the information halfway tract adjacent $1.47 million, with full caller yearly gross to the metropolis — including spot taxes, licence fees and administrative charges — projected astatine astir $2.3 million, according to the city’s release. Those funds would person helped offset costs for police, fire, exigency response, utilities and different metropolis services.
Boulder City is not unsocial successful grappling with information halfway proposals. The Reno City Council voted 6-1 successful June to widen a moratorium connected caller information halfway approvals done August 2027 — a archetypal successful Nevada — pursuing akin assemblage pushback. Similar efforts besides are connected the array successful Nye County and Clark County.
The Boulder City Council gathering is scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday astatine City Hall, 401 California Ave.
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