Tucked in behind Google’s data center complex at the south end of Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center is NV Energy’s Comstock Meadows Substation, currently undergoing an expansion to become the northernmost node of the Greenlink West transmission line. (Photo: Scott H. Williams)
Overlooking the Truckee River along USA Parkway in Storey County, Nevada, across from a pair of concrete signs proclaiming “Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center” and “Worlds Largest,” an ominous metal sentinel looms over the traffic exiting Interstate 80, bound for any of about two dozen warehouses and construction sites. A plaque bolted down at the foot of a roughly human-sized archway in the sculpture’s base reads:
TRANSITION PORTAL
Artist Kate Raudenbush …