GOED board approves tax abatements for four Nevada projects, including solar‑panel recycling and a $300M data center

Reno — The Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development board approved tax incentives on Feb. 5 for four separate projects aimed at expanding advanced manufacturing, solar‑panel recycling and data‑center capacity in the state.

Amanda Berry Jones, EDON's director of business development, presented Ampersand Inc.'s application for a Reno facility that would house research and manufacturing of solid‑state transformers. With GOED support, Ampersand requested sales‑and‑use, modified business and personal‑property tax abatements. Berry Jones said Ampersand plans to invest more than $18,000,000 and hire 62 employees within two years, with an average wage of $55.50 per hour. Maria Martinez Enriquez, the company's director for new product introduction, told the board the facility will perform development, design, validation and manufacturing and that the company expects to scale to roughly 500 megawatts of transformer capacity over two…