Dina Titus: “We must build back better, not continue to make the same mistakes because it may be easier or cheaper in the short-term.”

Given the budgetary shortfalls facing our state and local governments in Nevada, this raises questions about why the State tax abatements should be incentivizing the development of data centers on public lands.

The BLM allowed a private developer to switch from developing a solar farm on city-owned land in Boulder City to developing a data center on adjacent federal land without any public review. This is unacceptable.

Residents of Boulder City and other communities in Southern Nevada have a right to know about any proposal to transfer federal land to data center developers.

If you just keep rounding them up, rounding them up, rounding them up, it’s like that definition of insanity: doing the same thing, expecting it to turn out differently,”