Data center project · Nye County, Nevada
Manse Technology Campus
Stalled · A 900-acre data center campus pitched for Pahrump that drew large protests and now sits inside a county ban area. Also known as: Project Blackjack.
- Status
- Stalled · as of Aug. 18, 2026
- Location
- Pahrump · Nye County
- Status note
- Nye County banned data centers in the Pahrump Valley basin on Aug. 18, 2026.
- Power
- Not reported
No figure in the sources reviewed. - Land
- 900 acres
- Investment
- $18.4 billion, privately financed (developer)
- Developer and team
- Manse Technology Group / Gigawatt Development
- Water
- Developer promised closed-loop water cooling.
- Evidence
- News reports; primary records not yet obtained
- Size class
- 50 MW or more (tracker scope)
Updates, newest first
- Aug. 18, 2026 Commissioners banned data centers in Basin 162; KTNV said the ban appears to rule out the campus where it was proposed. (KSNV News 3, Aug. 18, 2026; KTNV Channel 13, Sept. 8, 2026)
- July 25, 2026 Nye County held a forum on the campus; construction had been expected to begin in 2027. (KTNV Channel 13, July 24, 2026; Pahrump Valley Times, Aug. 7, 2026)
- June 2, 2026 Nye County adopted a countywide moratorium; the Pahrump Valley Times tied it to a developer, not named, that had asked Valley Electric Association for power for a Pahrump data center. (Pahrump Valley Times, June 5, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
- The Pahrump Valley Times did not name the developer that approached Valley Electric Association.
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