PETITION COMMISSIONERS TO SAVE OUR WATER. WATER IS ESSENTIAL TO LIFE.

🚨 WILL OUR WELLS GO DRY? 🚨

Right now Lyon Nevada is moving fast on mega-data centers but Southern Nevada is a major, rapidly growing data center hub, featuring over 30 facilities in the Las Vegas Valley. This is primarily driven by Switch's Citadel/Core campuses and a 1.2 billion+ Google facility in Henderson. DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO LYON COUNTY NEVADA.

• Monarch Data Center: A proposed 505-acre, 1,000 MW campus in Mason Valley, featuring 14 buildings totaling 4.6 million square feet of space, backed by Carlyle and Copia Power.
• Tract Silver Springs: A 1,060-acre, 1.6 GW capacity project near Silver Springs, being developed by Tract. The developer, Tract, secured a rezoning and development agreement with Lyon County in late 2025
• Microsoft: In 2025 received approval to restructure 274 acres in Silver Springs at 1200 W Hwy 50 to support its future data center expansion. Victory Logistics District (Microsoft) is centered in Fernley. This industrial hub includes a 300-acre site for data center development, straddling the northern edge of the Lyon County. Note: Major facilities like the Switch Citadel Campus and Google's Storey County Data Center are located approximately 13–18 miles away from these Lyon County sites within the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center will play an important part in the data centers.

While they say they want to be "good neighbors," these facilities can use millions of gallons of water a day. In our drought-prone area, that water comes from the SAME aquifers we use for our homes and farms. These data centers are given Tax Cuts and the Jobs Act of 2017 which established Opportunity Zones as a mechanism to provide tax incentives for investment in designated census tracts. Investments through special funds in these zones would be allowed to defer or eliminate federal taxes on capital gains.

We aren't against growth—we are against UNGUARDED growth. We are demanding the County Commissioners put LEGALLY BINDING conditions on these permits as developers often use "design intent" in public meetings, which isn't the same as a permit condition and ask the Commissioners to include these as Conditions of Approval (COAs) in the Permits.

1.      Mandatory Zero-Liquid Cooling: Developers have verbally mentioned "waterless" designs. This must be a binding legal requirement. No permit should be granted unless it explicitly prohibits evaporative cooling towers and mandates closed-loop or air-cooled systems for all server operations.

2.      Baseline Well Protection Bond & Monitoring: The County must require developers to fund an independent baseline study of all residential and agricultural wells within a five-mile radius. We demand the installation of independent monitoring wells at the project perimeters with real-time, public-facing data providing "Ground Truth" before it's too late. If the water table drops beyond a set safety threshold, the developer must be legally required to cease pumping and/or pay for the deepening of affected local wells.

3.      Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD): ZLD is to prevent "dirty water" or thermal pollution from entering our soil and aquifers and prevents millions of gallons of "evaporation loss." The County must mandate onsite ZLD systems. All industrial wastewater must be treated and recycled onsite, with zero discharge of chemically treated "blow-down" water into the ground.

4.      Local Job & Benefit Accountability: Data centers are notoriously low-employment facilities once built. I ask that any tax abatement (NRS 360.754) be tied to a "Claw-back Provision" which is a contractual clause primarily designed to ensure accountability and ensures the county isn't giving away taxes for nothing. It creates a "look-back" period where money can be clawed back, sometimes leading to the return of millions to the county. This clause is triggered by events like financial restatements, misconduct, fraud, or poor performance. If the promised number of permanent, full-time local jobs is not met, the developer should be required to pay the full tax rate back to the County. 

Please help make an impact on data center and their requirements by signing this petition.