Following a county-wide moratorium on any new data center applications, the Nye County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to completely ban data centers in one of the most over-appropriated water basins in Nevada. After hours of public comment, the Nye County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to ban the construction and operation of data centers in Nevada’s Hydrographic Basin 162, becoming the first municipality in Nevada to outright ban data centers. … The vote comes after county commissioners approved a temporary county-wide moratorium in June on any new data center applications, which will remain in effect until the county adopts local data center regulations. The temporary moratorium followed an emergency order in May from the Nye County Water District Governing Board recommending a pause on data centers in the Pahrump Valley.

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• The Fresno Bee (Calif.): Community urges permanent ban on data centers at Tulare fairgrounds