Data Centers Can't Sacrifice Nevada's Clean Energy Future Warns Asm. Watts

Exploding data center demand in Nevada risks derailing clean energy goals, as utilities may turn to gas plants amid energy supply shortages. This turn ignores the renewable energy goals set by Nevada voters and increases reliance on gas plants, which pollute the air and create volatile energy costs. At a recent legislative hearing, Assemblymember Howard Watts, confronting this problem, stated, "Building more gas plants seems like going in the exact opposite direction of what we need to do as a state," noting the state's "tremendous solar and geothermal energy potential." Several data centers using clean energy already thrive in Nevada demonstrating that projects can succeed without the use of fossil fuels.

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