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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Silver Springs Data Center Campus.
Approximate source coordinates; this is not a parcel claim. Nearby source points are combined into one accessible target that opens this exact map scope. View these exact rows on the interactive map →
Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Silver Springs · Lyon County · Nevada
- Official metro area
- Reno, NV
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 29 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001003
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
- Grid
- Land area
- 274 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Provider notes
Energy. Served by two approved substations north of U.S. Highway 50: the roughly 32.59-acre 'Nighthawk' 345/120 kV regional substation, which NV Energy will own and operate as part of its Greenlink interconnection plans, and a separate roughly 18.7-acre 120 kV substation stepping power down for the adjacent data center. A 345 kV transmission fold connecting to Greenlink West and the Nighthawk substation received a BLM decision on June 18, 2026.
Community. Nearby property owners objected at the Lyon County Planning Commission over proximity to residential land, structure heights of up to roughly 150 feet, noise and notice. Proposed mitigations include setbacks, limited night lighting and perimeter security structures.
What the source record says
A distinct Microsoft site from the Victory Logistics District land in Fernley that the tracker already carries. Microsoft owns roughly 274 acres in Silver Springs, restructured into three parcels of about 223.18, 32.6 and 18.7 acres. The BLM decision notice for the 345 kV fold names NV Energy as applicant and does not mention Microsoft or a data center; the Microsoft linkage comes from the county proceedings and the Basin and Range Watch summary. No building programme, capacity figure or construction start has been sourced. Coordinates are the Silver Springs reference point, not a parcel.
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
- 2026-03-05 · source-reported proposed
Lyon County approved conditional use permits for the two Microsoft-affiliated substations serving the Silver Springs campus; a parcel map consolidating six Microsoft-owned parcels totalling about 274 acres into three was also approved.
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.
- Planning commission recommends approval of two Microsoft substations in Silver Springs amid neighbor concerns · Citizen Portal
- Data Centers - Silver Springs data center and Silver Springs 345 kV transmission line, ROW application September 2024, revised plan of development April 2026 · Basin and Range Watch
- BLM issues decision for Silver Springs 345kV Fold · U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-silver-springs-lyon-county-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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001003
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
- Silver Springs, NV · Lyon (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026-03-05 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 274 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: Grid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-29
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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