Clark County, Nevada

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

Google

Resi rate Δ (NV Energy)

+6.9%

Home price Δ (3y)

+4.6%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+9.4%

Population (2024 ACS)

2.33M

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$76,472

Key takeaways

Clark County is 2,293,764 residents, the largest county in this batch by more than 4x. Median household income is $73,845 and 27.3% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree, both well below the Las Vegas tourism-economy narrative implies.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003, B19013, B15003 (FIPS 32003)
Google's Henderson campus was a $600 million build on a 64-acre site, the company's first Nevada data center. Google announced an additional $400 million investment in Nevada data centers in 2024.Source: data/sites/data_centers.csv (Henderson) + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Henderson, NV)
NV Energy's residential rate rose from 14.3 to 15.3 cents per kWh between 2021 and 2023, a 6.9% jump worth about $108 per year on a typical 10,800 kWh household. Nevada Power has 916,385 residential customers, the second-largest residential base of any utility in this batch behind PSE&G.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Nevada Power Co, NV)
Home prices rose 4.6% over three years against a $400,800 median home value, the highest median value in this batch outside of Union NJ. Property tax assessments rose 9.4% on the same baseline.Source: data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv + data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 32003) + Census ACS 2023 B25077

Clark County is 31.4% Hispanic, 12.1% Black, 10.5% Asian, and 47.1% white, the most racially diverse AI host county in the entire dataset. Google's Henderson expansion lands in a community without any single demographic majority.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001, B03003 (FIPS 32003)
Unemployment is 7.4% in Clark County, the highest jobless rate of any AI host county in the dataset. The Las Vegas service economy still bears Strip cycle volatility that the Henderson tech corridor only partially insulates.Source: Census ACS 2023 B23025 (FIPS 32003)
43.0% of Clark County households rent rather than own at a median rent of $1,518 a month. NV Energy's 6.9% residential rate jump on a renter base this large amplifies the effective bill-plus-rent stack on roughly 364,000 households.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25003, B25064 (FIPS 32003)
Only 3.9% of Clark County workers are in manufacturing, against 13.2% in poverty. Google's data-center capex is one of the few non-hospitality industrial investments in a county whose labor force is otherwise locked to tourism cycles.Source: Census ACS 2023 C24050, B17001 (FIPS 32003)