Nevadans
in Control
AI is already reshaping Nevada: our power, our jobs, our water, our classrooms. AI companies make the calls today – we think Nevadans should.
Three things every Nevadan should know
Nevadans are taking action
An AI-powered hotel opened in Las Vegas last year, and robot bartenders pour drinks on the Strip. A Las Vegas firm projects up to 92,000 hotel and casino jobs could be affected by automation by 2035. And nobody is required to count the jobs AI has already cost – a Nevada congressman has a bill to change that.
City by city, Nevadans keep showing up to hearings and setting rules.
Join your neighbors
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The Nevada Forum Civic Assembly
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM · The Palms Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
Enter the lottery →Where it's happening
Data Centers in Nevada
Reno / TRIC (north) – Google, Switch, Vantage, Fleet, Microsoft. The faster-growing hub.
Las Vegas Valley (south) – Google, Switch and Flexential among a growing cluster of sites.
Emerging & contested – Wells, Ely and Pahrump, rural towns weighing their first projects, moratoriums and bans.
More than 70 are planned, building, or running – from the Las Vegas Valley to Reno's industrial center to rural towns now weighing their first.
Facilities and locations per Nevada LCB memo (May 2026), Las Vegas Review-Journal (July 2025), and Fox5 Las Vegas (July 2026). Schematic – not to scale.
Find the exact sites near you:
Data Center Map · Baxtel
Reno
New data centers paused through August 2027 while the city writes real rules.
Sparks
Voted unanimously to draft its own data center ordinance.
Boulder City
Voters decide a data center measure this November.
These companies are racing each other to build AI that they say can do everything a human can do. They also say they aren't sure they'll be able to control it. Community leaders, economists, researchers, and even the CEOs themselves say this could threaten not just our communities, not just our states, not even just all Americans – but everyone.
Nevadans should have a say in whether these companies and their data centers come to our towns. And Americans should have a say in the AI they're built to run – before anyone loses control of it.
Nationwide
7 in 10 Americans would oppose a data center in their area
Share who would oppose a data center built in their area.
Gallup · Fielded March 2026 · N=1,000
The Culinary Union
Put AI protections in the contracts of 60,000 workers.
The Legislature
42
–0
Nevada's AI disclosure law for campaign ads passed with zero no votes – and a Republican governor signed it.
The same missing rules
Every worry leads back to one thing
Jobs, kids, water, a data center no one voted on – nobody set the rules first. And the people building AI keep telling us where that leads.
Losing your say over a data center is a real loss – your town's power and water, decided without you. The same thing is happening with AI itself: the people building it admit they can't be sure they can control it, and we don't get a say in that either.
Both losses share one cause: nobody set the rules first. Either we set the rules for AI now, or the companies keep playing by their own – and AI's only getting more powerful.
Step 1
A say in your town
A real vote before the deal is signed.
Step 2
Rules in Carson City
Laws like the 42–0 AI-ad-disclosure rule – passed unanimously.
Step 3
National, then international
Standards that hold for the most powerful AI systems – the ones the companies building them admit they can't fully control.
Every step is the same demand at bigger scale. Our AI Ground Rules pledge (below) is that demand in writing.
Our Pledge
Set the Ground Rules for AI
Workers and families should benefit from AI, not be pushed aside by it.
When an AI system hurts a child, scams a senior, or endangers the public, the company that built it should answer for it – the way we hold car companies and drug companies accountable.
AI is already reshaping work, schools, families, elections, and war. The people racing to build it admit they can't fully control it.
More ways to act
Ask your reps where they stand
Our Contact Your Rep tool works for every Nevada district.
Host a screening
For your church, union hall, HOA, or veterans group.
Send this page to one Nevadan
Share the link.
FAQs
Things people ask us
We're against building AI carelessly.
AI can make some tasks easier, and there's even potential it could do real good in medicine, in classrooms, and in Nevada's economy. What we're against is recklessness: companies racing to build systems their own CEOs say they can't fully control, with no rules or accountability to communities. Seatbelts didn't kill the car business, and crash tests didn't either – standards are how a serious industry earns trust.
We're not telling towns to stop or to build – that's their call. Local communities have a right to ask questions and a duty to call for transparency and accountability from these companies. They're worried about job losses, human connection, and national security. They're also worried about what data centers require from their town. Communities are hitting pause because no one set the rules first. We support people telling companies they don't get to build recklessly without anyone getting a vote.
8 in 10 Americans – across party lines – want accountability for AI companies. And look at the record: Nevada's AI disclosure law passed without a single no vote and was signed by a Republican governor. Forty-two attorneys general from both parties demanded chatbot safeguards. Caring about your job, your resources, and your kids isn't a party position.
Nevada has already set real rules:
- Unanimous AI disclosure for campaign ads (AB73, signed by Governor Lombardo)
- A ban on AI systems posing as therapists (AB406)
- Felony penalties for AI-generated fake intimate images (SB213)
What Nevada doesn't have: any law on AI chatbots and kids, on AI systems that discriminate, on testing AI before it's released, or on building AI systems nobody can control. The Legislature meets again in February 2027 – it only meets every other year. What Nevadans ask for between now and then shapes what gets written.
NVforum.org is one nonpartisan platform where Nevadans weigh in on what the state should tackle. It doesn't write bills – it takes priorities Nevadans agree on across party lines and works to get legislators to sponsor them, ahead of the 2027 session.
Nevada in the news
Fox5 Las Vegas
FOX5 Investigates: Nevada data center boom strains energy, water, and land resources
Jul 7, 2026
Photo: Jaedyn Young / Reno Gazette Journal
Nevada Current
Reno City Council extends data center moratorium, promises effort 'is not political'
Jun 3, 2026
Fox5 Las Vegas
Clark County approves Switch data center items in southwest Las Vegas after public opposition
Jun 18, 2026
The Nevada Independent
Nevada pursues limited regulation on AI despite Trump's warning against it
2026
