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Townsite and Skydance Energy are developing the 1.2B USD, 170 MW Townsite Solar 2The Interior Board of Land Appeals stayed the June 26 federal authorization for Townsite’s data center campus across 160 acres in on September 1, 2026. This federal parcel is separate from the Eldorado Valley near Boulder City, Clark County, Nevada.88.5-acre city-land application withdrawn in July; the old $1.2B budget is removed.
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The Boulder City Council approvedsigned IBLA order grants a 50-year lease agreement and development permit for the 160-acre Townsite data center campus in the Eldorado Valley energy zone. Engineered for 170 MWstay of critical computing power directly co-located with the adjacent Townsite solarBLM authorization and battery energy storage complex. Representsconsolidates the appeals. It is an estimated 1.2 billion USD private capital investment interconnected to NV Energy's Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM) transmission corridor. Features zero-water liquid cooling architecture tailored for harsh desert environments without drawing on Lake Mead or Colorado River water allocations. Provides ultra-fast low-latency fiber connectivity toadministrative appeals order, not a final ruling cancelling the project. Boulder City’s page describes the earlier city-land proposal: two buildings, 167 MW peak demand and a dedicated project-funded 230kV line. Those specifications must not be assumed unchanged on the Las Vegas digital corridor and Southern California cloud nodes. Timeline: planned facility targeting commercial operation inseparate federal parcel. Timeline: September 1, 2026 represents the confirmed stay event. The unsupported June 2028 (estimated) aligned with utility substation energizationopening estimate, scaled water, power reading and phased campus delivery.acreage are removed.
