Nye County imposes temporary countywide moratorium on data‑center applications
After lengthy public comment on water and infrastructure impacts and debate over whether to exempt Tonopah, the Nye County Board of Commissioners adopted a temporary countywide moratorium on new data‑center applications while staff drafts an ordinance with a formal definition and review process.
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The Nye County Board of Commissioners voted to place a temporary moratorium on accepting new applications for data centers anywhere in the county while staff develops ordinance language to regulate such facilities. The board amended an initial motion that would have excluded Tonopah and adopted a countywide moratorium with a working definition of “data center” as a ‘‘centralized physical facility or building that houses a vast network of computer servers, data storage drives and networking equipment.’’
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