Dina Titus: “I would just ask Ms. McCoy, you said you were hiring 300 new people.”

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.

Data centers potentially can affect our scant water resources, energy usage and the overall environment.

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.