The Nye County Water District Governing Board unanimously approved an emergency order Tuesday requesting that the Nye County Commission place a moratorium on data centers in the Pahrump Valley.  The emergency order is non-binding and includes draft language for an ordinance that would make data center projects a non-permissive use of water within the Pahrump Regional Planning District and Nevada Hydrographic Basin 162, a critically over-appropriated aquifer. Board members emphasized that they do not have the authority to approve or deny data centers, and that any recommendation they make will have to be approved by the Nye County Commission. … The vote comes after the Reno City Council placed a temporary pause on new data center applications earlier this month. 

Other data center water use news:

• KLAS (Las Vegas): Nye County Water District discusses potential of Pahrump data center
• The Salt Lake Tribune: This Utah county just ‘put the brakes’ on new data centers
• The Daily Utah Chronicle (Salt Lake City): “Protect the water, the air, the land”: Hundreds demand halt on Box Elder data center plan