Hundreds of residents turned out to the Nye County Commission's Tuesday, August 4 meeting to have their say during a public hearing on a bill to ban data centers in Nye communities without elected town boards and a majority spoke against data center development. 2026-11 was put forward by commissioner Ian Bayne in response to the recent upswell in concern from residents about potential data center development in the Pahrump Valley. However, it was up to the commissioners to determine whether a ban on data centers would be appropriate locally. “Data center planning is moving forward very aggressively,” Bayne stated. He then made a motion to have an item on the August 18 meeting agenda to consider a ballot question on a data center ban, as well as potential funding source.