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The Data Center Divide

Clark County

Pro-Data Center Policies

Clark County’s enacted ordinance is described as a proposal that would ease data-center expansion on one 51.5-acre site, allowing warehouses and waiving some standards, subject to staff conditions.

current law · County project: The NV LAS DEC data center with electric substation at Maule and Jones, and the NV LAS NAP 14-16/NV LAS DEC data center complex north of Badura Avenue and east of Jones Boulevard within Enterprise
Considers adopting a development agreement with NV LAS NAP 14-16 LLC and NV LAS DEC, LLC for a data center complex on 51.5 acres in Enterprise.Clark County, Nevada Ordinance No. 23-900352 (2023)

What this means

The proposal would make it easier to expand a data center on a specific 51.5-acre site by allowing data center warehouses and waiving several development standards. Staff conditions still apply, so the benefit is meaningful but limited.

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  • The data center warehouse project required waivers of development standards and design reviews for signage and the warehouses, with approval subject to staff conditions.

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  • Approved, subject to staff conditions, a waiver allowing outside storage for the data-center project. Waiver for outside storage%20outside%20storage)

  • Approved, subject to staff conditions, a waiver allowing alternative building design standards. Alternative building design standards%20alternative%20building%20design%20standards)

  • Approved, subject to staff conditions, a waiver allowing alternative lighting standards. Waiver for lighting%20lighting)

  • Approved, subject to staff conditions, a waiver allowing alternative trash enclosures. Alternative trash enclosures%20alternative%20trash%20enclosures)

  • Approved, subject to staff conditions, a waiver eliminating parking-lot landscaping requirements. Eliminate parking lot landscaping%20eliminate%20parking%20lot%20landscaping)

  • Approved, subject to staff conditions, design reviews for signage and data-center warehouses. Design reviews for signage and data center warehouses%20signage%3B%20and%202)%20data%20center%20warehouses)

  • Approved, subject to staff conditions, a tentative map creating one industrial lot on the 51.5-acre site. Tentative map consisting of 1 industrial lot

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Specific to Clark County only.

pending · County project: Unincorporated Enterprise
Proposes a site-specific development agreement for NV LAS DEC’s 30-acre data center and electric substation in Enterprise, with zoning changes and waivers from certain development standards.Clark County ORD-23-900338 (2023)

What this means

The measure would help a specific 30-acre data center project move forward by adopting a development agreement for the facility and its electric substation (development agreement for a data center with electric substation). Related zoning and design applications were approved, but this is a project-specific approval, not a general incentive or protection for data centers (approved per staff conditions).

People behind it

  • Applicant and party to the proposed Development Agreement for the 30-acre data center and electric substation.

  • Responsible body for introducing and conducting the public hearing on the proposed ordinance.

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  • The project requires a zone change for 1.3 acres from Rural Estates Residential, including the AE-60 overlay, to Designed Manufacturing zoning.

  • The project requires use permits for the electric substation and for eliminating the required trash enclosure.

  • The project requires waivers of development standards for exterior accent colors, horizontal rooflines, wall height, monotonous block walls, ground-mounted up-lighting, street landscaping without trees, signage, and modified driveway design standards.

  • The project requires design reviews for modifications to the previously approved data center, the electric substation, signage, and finished grade across the 30-acre site.

  • The project requires consideration and adoption of a development agreement through a county ordinance and public hearing.

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  • Rezoning: The measure would reclassify 1.3 acres from Rural Estates Residential zoning, including the AE-60 airport-overlay portion, to Designed Manufacturing zoning, including the corresponding AE-60 designation, supporting the data-center project on the 30-acre site. reclassify 1.3 acres

  • Electric-substation authorization: The measure includes a use permit for an electric substation, providing project-specific approval for power infrastructure needed by the data center. electric substation%20eliminate%20trash%20enclosure%3B%20and%202)%20electric%20substation)

  • Development-standard waivers: The measure would waive or modify requirements for exterior accent colors, roofline articulation, wall height, block-wall design, ground-mounted uplighting, street landscaping, signage, and driveway design, reducing site-design constraints on the data center and substation. WAIVERS OF DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS

  • Project design approvals: The measure includes design reviews for modifications to a previously approved data center, a communications tower, the electric substation, signage, and finished grade, allowing the project to proceed through a consolidated project-specific review. modifications to a previously approved data center

  • Site and access-rights changes: The measure includes vacation of specified easements and portions of Bronco Street and Pama Lane, clearing identified private-site and right-of-way interests for the data-center development. VACATE AND ABANDON easements

  • Industrial-lot subdivision approval: The associated tentative map would create one industrial lot and common lots on the 30-acre site, providing the approved parcel configuration for the data-center project. TENTATIVE MAP consisting of 1 industrial lot

Sources

pending · County project: Data center complex generally located north of Badura Avenue and east of Jones Boulevard within Enterprise
Considers approving a development agreement for a 51.5-acre data center complex in the Enterprise area.Clark County ORD-23-900352 (2023)

People behind it

  • Party to the proposed Development Agreement for the 51.5-acre data center complex.

  • Party to the proposed Development Agreement for the 51.5-acre data center complex.

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  • Establishes a development agreement with NV LAS NAP 14-16 LLC and NV LAS DEC, LLC for development of a data center complex on approximately 51.5 acres in Enterprise.

  • Provides vested development rights during the agreement term, limiting the County’s ability to apply later zoning or land-use changes that would conflict with the approved project, subject to the agreement’s conditions and applicable health and safety requirements.

  • Sets the development agreement’s approved terms and conditions as the framework for reviewing subsequent development applications, including site, building, and infrastructure permits for the data center complex.

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