Citadel Campus

Switch · Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, Nevada

Water — consumed, not returned

Where the water comes from

Closed loop — negligible draw

Cooling

Switch's own waterless hybrid design

Basis

Fitted to a published figure of 18.0 million gallons a year

Air — what the stacks emit

Where it burns

WECC Rockies — Utah / Nevada

Generation mix

Gas 42 · Coal 34 · Solar 12 · Geo 5

CO₂e

652 kt/yr — climate, not air quality

Who wanted it

Who asked for it

Mixed colocation tenants — no single anchor disclosed

Who approved it

Storey County TRIC master plan; NV Energy green-tariff supply from dedicated solar

What it serves

Colocation for enterprise, government and AI tenants

IT capacity

200 MW running of 650 MW announced

Marketed as the largest colocation campus in the world and built essentially waterless in the high desert, on a dedicated solar tariff. A useful upper bound on how low a big site's water and carbon can go when siting is deliberate.

Where it is

39.5300°, -119.4400°

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Water and air figures are modelled from disclosed capacity, not measured — site-level error is roughly ±40%. Diesel backup generators are not counted, so on-site figures are floors. Full method.