Storey County, Nevada

The legislature passed them.

Everybody should have to follow the same rules, whether you live in Storey County, whether you live in Elko County, or whether you live in Clark County.

And, you know, trust but verify.

We- I've, I've been a poll worker.

Um, but this is an opportunity to where all of those entities I named off can bring in revenue from these data centers even if they get abatements.

You look at the benefits to Storey County.

Uh, Chris Thompson wrote an editorial this morning, uh, he used to be the project manager for TRI, talking about how well Storey County is doing.

[laughs] I know.

And, and that they are reaching out to Reno, Sparks, and Washoe County and saying, "Hey, what other ways can we help?"

That's a big deal, and we need to start talking about how we bring in better jobs, high-paying jobs, for people to afford to live here.

Nobody wants to destroy our resources.

It's the same Truckee River that runs through Reno, that runs through Sparks, that runs through Washoe County, that runs through Storey County.

Uh, we're exploring other options on alternative routes, um, as, uh, w- we, we have an upcoming meeting with the RTC to discuss regionally, uh, a joint meeting, uh, to discuss some alternative routes, and, uh, and certainly our private sector partners are, uh, engaged in, in those conversations as well.

Okay, because, you know, if you go back a few years, I know in my discussions with people, um, that are involved in these kind of things, that they were saying that the majority of money is gonna be spent in Southern Nevada because that's where the largest population base is, but there's incredible need in the north, not just in Storey County, but in, in Washoe, you know, Sparks as well.

Um, so do you envision that these private companies, um, are gonna be putting money in, or you're gonna have to do things with the county to ensure that as you put out these building permits, that, that they put in, you know, the roadways and the other infrastructure that's necessary?

Sam, I don't, I don't know what the structure's going to look like exactly.

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And back on Nevada News Makers, we continue our conversation with Clay Mitchell.

He's the Storey County Commissioner for District 1.

Um, let's talk about, uh, what's going on with AI.

We don't have to submit a BDR to, uh, know that we're not gonna get this on.

We saw it when I proposed a toll road, is that it never even made it out of committee 'cause no one wanted to even talk about a toll road And that was another way to have the industry in Storey County pay for the infrastructure that they created the demand for.

Okay, you want the last word on this?

[laughs] My biggest thing is if we haven't fought for it, if we haven't tried, I wanna fight for it and I wanna try for that, because our Sparks citizens need someone who's gonna fight for our fair share of the revenue that we bring in.

Sparks?Well, we've already seen how it's affected Sparks.

I mean, when Governor Sandoval approved this whole development out there, um, I don't think that we saw the magnitude of how quick we were gonna grow and how big we were gonna grow.

I'm all for that smart growth, and I think that Storey County is, uh, very blessed and fortunate with this.

Um, I would like to see, I mean, obviously if Tesla's doing that, revenue's coming in for Storey County.

but I want you to hear it the way such a document might actually sound if it ever crossed someone's desk.

This is a report attributed to Dr. Elias Voss, PhD, a behavioral psychologist assigned to the site Meridian 12, an access-restricted high-density computing sector located within the broader Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in Story County, Nevada.

The industrial complex is real.

as is the massive hyperscale data infrastructure operating there, but Section Meridian 12 is not.