By Alan Halaly and Casey Harrison Las Vegas Review-Journal
June 16, 2026 - 7:35 pm
The metropolis of Henderson is considering an ordinance that would marque it the archetypal section authorities successful Southern Nevada to temporarily prohibition the operation of caller information centers.
Henderson measure No. 3927 was introduced astatine Tuesday’s City Council gathering and, if passed, would enforce a 180-day prohibition connected conditional usage licence applications for information halfway uses. The measure was referred to the City Council’s July 21 gathering for imaginable adoption.
According to a draught of the ordinance, the moratorium would let the metropolis to “conduct a thorough review,” update applicable sections of the Henderson Municipal Code related to information halfway developments and “thoughtfully consider” the imaginable impacts of information halfway developments wrong metropolis limits.
City unit said during the gathering that the connection would beryllium amended earlier the July 21 gathering to let the City Council to assistance the moratorium sooner than 180 days.
Issues that metropolis unit volition see see vigor demands, h2o consumption, aerial quality, vigor generation, biology impacts, proximity to residential areas, onshore usage compatibility, decommissioning plans and assemblage and economical benefits, according to the draught ordinance.
Mayor Michelle Romero said aft the gathering Tuesday that the City Council had heard determination is imaginable involvement to physique further information centers successful Henderson, and that the constituent of the moratorium connection is to summation accusation astir the resources needed to support caller information centers and to larn astir different factors that mightiness impact residents. Romero added that she was the 1 who requested the amendment that would let the Council to assistance the moratorium sooner than 180 days.
“If each of our questions are answered, past it’s not indispensable to hold six months,” Romero said. “If we person our answers, past we tin perceive it and past either contradict it oregon o.k. it based connected the accusation we’ve gathered. I didn’t privation to pigeonhole america successful lawsuit we get those answers sooner alternatively than later.”
A hot-button issue
Henderson whitethorn beryllium the archetypal successful Southern Nevada to see a information halfway pause, but not the archetypal successful the state. In May, the Reno City Council extended its pause connected information halfway approvals done Aug. 31, 2027, becoming the archetypal Nevada metropolis to enactment a intermission connected caller information centers.
Reno’s moratorium cannot beryllium lifted without an ordinance that would alteration the metropolis codification oregon found grounds that existing regulations are capable successful protecting nationalist health.
Following protests from residents, the Boulder City Planning Commission recommended that the City Council cull plans for a information halfway wrong metropolis limits, though the politician has expressed a tendency to bolster metropolis finances with a lucrative lease to the developer.
AI information centers person been a hot-button contented for Nevada and the federation arsenic communities reconcile with the facilities’ monolithic h2o and powerfulness demands. NV Energy forecasts that projected information centers could necessitate astatine treble the magnitude of the utility’s highest load with 39 projected information centers statewide that submitted archetypal requests for service.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority’s prohibition connected alleged evaporative cooling, implemented successful its entirety successful 2024, extends to information centers. That means accepted cooling systems that guzzle millions of gallons of h2o cannot beryllium built; instead, a “closed-loop” strategy that doesn’t fto h2o evaporate, oregon aerial cooling, are the lone viable paths.
However, immoderate water-intensive information centers came to Southern Nevada earlier that took effect, including Google’s installation successful eastbound Henderson.
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