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Switch has submitted a letter of intent to North Las Vegas officials for a roughly 175-acre data center campus at Apex Industrial Park, the first formal development proposal for a land position the company has quietly assembled along the US-93 corridor since the start of the year. KTNV Las Vegas obtained the letter, which describes 14 parcels totaling approximately 175.8 acres near Apex Power Parkway with an estimated 486,250 square feet of buildings.
What the plans show
Documents submitted to the city in August describe a campus with two data center buildings, one fire pump house, one substation with a control house, one switching station and one logistics office building. No power capacity or construction timeline has been disclosed. The proposal still needs city approval before anything is built, and Switch has made no formal public announcement about its plans for the site, which Baxtel currently lists in its Apex Industrial Park land bank.
The filing follows a steady run of land purchases. Baxtel's tracking shows Switch acquired 176 acres at Apex for $85.5 million in January and another 140 acres for $95 million in March, bringing the tracked holding to 316 acres for $180.5 million combined. In mid-September, FOX5 reported that county records showed a further purchase of roughly 176 acres for about $196 million, while KTNV in May cited Clark County Assessor records putting Switch's total Apex position above 300 acres for roughly $200 million. The differing figures have not been reconciled publicly.
A crowded corner of Nevada
Apex, about 20 miles from downtown North Las Vegas, has attracted industrial tenants from Kroger to Crocs, and data center operators are now following. Flexential, Novva Data Centers, T-Mobile and others already have facilities in the city, and Novva previously acquired nearly 205 acres at Apex for a reported $181 million, according to KKLZ's report on the Switch filing. If the campus is approved, Switch would hold a second major Las Vegas-area position alongside its southwest valley flagship near Jones Boulevard and the 215 Beltway.
Switch is one of the largest operators in the Las Vegas market. Baxtel tracks more than a dozen operational Switch facilities in the metro, including Las Vegas 8 through 15 at capacities of roughly 20 to 40 MW each, plus two EVO AI Factory buildings now under construction. The company has also been expanding elsewhere, filing plans in August for a data center campus at a former Pittsburgh race track and expanding its debt facility to $9.5 billion in June to fund AI-focused growth, as Baxtel previously reported.
Local reaction is not uniformly welcoming. Residents near Apex raised water-use and heat-island concerns after the May land purchases became public, and KTNV reported that one resident said the area is "already in a water crisis."
Why it matters
The Apex filing turns a year of quiet land banking into a concrete campus plan in a market where Switch already dominates. North Las Vegas is emerging as a second metro data center cluster, and Switch's 316-plus acres there give it room to build at a scale its southwest valley campus cannot easily match.
