Lawmakers in driest state weigh excessive water and energy needs of data centers they court

The Google-Fervo geothermal energy plant in Storey County provides power to Google data centers. (Google Data Centers press photo)

NV Energy believes it will need 50% more energy than it projected needing just two years ago, and that energy demand could double by 2030.

The skyrocketing demand is overwhelmingly driven by the boom in artificial intelligence and large scale data centers. And state lawmakers, who for a decade have courted data centers with millions of dollars in tax abatements, are taking notice…

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