Dina Titus: “We have a president who seems to just pooh-pooh all this. He sides with Putin over our own intelligence.”

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.

Now, any fees associated with the (right-of-way) grant on BLM land will go to the federal government.

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.