Reno / Storey County cluster

Google · Apple · Switch · Vantage · Reno / McCarran, Nevada

Water — consumed, not returned

Where the water comes from

Municipal potable supply

Cooling

Predominantly air-cooled; desert siting rules out evaporative at scale

Basis

Fitted to a published figure of 110 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

1,033 kt/yr — climate, not air quality

Who wanted it

Who asked for it

Hyperscalers plus Tesla's adjacent Gigafactory load

Who approved it

Storey County TRIC zoning; NV Energy clean-transition tariffs — Google and Apple both left NV Energy's standard service to buy power directly

What it serves

Google Cloud us-west4, Apple services, wholesale colocation

IT capacity

400 MW running of 1,100 MW announced

Nevada's clean-transition tariff lets very large customers exit the utility and contract directly for renewables. It is the main mechanism US hyperscalers use to claim clean power without moving their buildings.

Where it is

39.4700°, -119.6000°

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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.