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Critics Race to Stop Boulder City Data Center Before It Sets a National Precedent
The groups say the Bureau of Land Management skipped a new environmental review and that the project would use more than 560 acre-feet of water.
- On Monday, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club filed a federal administrative appeal challenging the Bureau of Land Management's June approval of the 167-megawatt Townsite Data Center near Boulder City.
- By swapping a previously authorized solar project for the data center, the BLM bypassed standard environmental review, which opponents claim unlawfully sidestepped public participation requirements.
- Appellants argue the project demands more than 560 acre-feet of water compared to 25 for the solar plan, while threatening habitat for the threatened Mojave desert tortoise in Eldorado Valley.
- As Hoover Dam hydropower capacity drops 70 percent, Boulder City officials also filed an appeal, warning the facility could consume three times the city's electrical load and increase resident utility prices.
- U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduced the No AI Data Centers on Federal Lands Act last week to ban such projects, while Nevada political candidates debate whether taxpayers should subsidize data centers on public land.
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