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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Apple Reno Data Center (Reno Technology Park).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Apple
- Address and locality
- Sparks · Washoe County · Nevada
- Official metro area
- Reno, NV
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 14 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000080
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- NV Energy
- Power source
- Solar
- Land area
- 1,700 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- 2012
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Nevada data center sales and property tax abatements (Washoe County / State of Nevada) · Nevada — Washoe County · 2012 · $89 million (as stated) Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Apple financed and built the Fort Churchill Solar project (Apple's first Nevada solar deal, ~20MW) and later the larger Turquoise Solar project (61MWdc, ~180 acres) sited directly inside the Reno Technology Park next to Apple's Sparks data center, connected via a shared substation developed with Apple.
What the source record says
Apple data center at 21505 Reno Technology Parkway W, Sparks, Washoe County — the first data center built at the Reno Technology Park, opened December 2012. Per Apple's July 2024 letter in a Nevada GOED tax-abatement board packet, the campus had grown to four data-center buildings plus a power substation across 1,700 acres, with 200+ staff; Apple committed to further investment (a 2024 expansion capex of ~$742M over 5 years / ~$992M over 10 years is documented in the GOED filing). No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an address-level geocode (ArcGIS, exact-address match); a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2012 · source-reported operational
Opened December 2012 as the first data center at the Reno Technology Park; grown to four buildings + a substation across 1,700 acres per Apple's July 2024 letter in the GOED filing.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Apple Inc. Board Packet (Data Center Sales & Use Tax Abatement), July 2024 — Apple's own letter: opened Dec 2012, four buildings + substation across 1,700 acres, 200+ staff · Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development
- Apple's Reno Data Center Expansion Marches On · Data Center Knowledge
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Apple, NV Energy apply for new agreement for solar facility near Reno (The Nevada Independent)
- 61-MW solar project now supplying power to Apple data center in Nevada (Solar Power World)
- Stealthy team effort led to $89M in tax breaks, drew Apple to Reno-Sparks · Las Vegas Sun
- Nevadans get few details into data centers receiving tax breaks — and it might be illegal · The Nevada Independent
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID apple-reno-nv. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row is retained from 1.33.0+git-e97215faac76, source as of 2026-09-25T23:45:52.227Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000080
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Sparks, NV · Washoe (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Apple
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2012
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2012 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 1,700 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: NV Energy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Solar
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Incentive reported by the source: Nevada data center sales and property tax abatements (Washoe County / State of Nevada) · Nevada — Washoe County · 2012 · $89 million (as stated)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-14
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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