Data centers, Greenlink, and your electricity bill

By: Scott H. Williams

Outlets: Nevada Current

Published: January 12, 2026

Words: 1,088

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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Overlooking the Truckee River along USA Parkway in Storey County, Nevada, across from a pair of concrete signs proclaiming “Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center” and “Worlds Largest,” an ominous metal sentinel looms over the traffic exiting Interstate 80, bound for any of about two dozen warehouses and construction sites. A plaque bolted down at the foot of a roughly human-sized archway in the sculpture’s base reads:

TRANSITION PORTAL

Artist Kate Raudenbush

Commissioned by The …

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