The Lyon County planning commission has approved a parcel map from Microsoft seeking to restructure six parcels of land it owns in Silver Springs, Nevada.

As reported by Citizen Portal, the six parcels total some 274 acres of land, and Microsoft wants to restructure them into three parcels, with the largest being 223.18 acres, followed by a second at 32.6 acres and a final 18.7-acre parcel. The parcels are zoned neighborhood-commercial or employment.

The land in question would, according to senior planner Lewis Cariella, require roadway and utility improvements to enable any future developments, and has an average slope of around four percent, reaching as much as 20 percent in the northern areas.

Silver Springs is located west of Reno. The parcels are located at 1200 W Hwy 50 and other addresses on Rhyolite Lane, directly opposite the Silver Springs Airport.

How Microsoft plans to use the land, which was purchased in January 2023 for $16.425 million, has not been explicitly shared, though at the time of purchase, a spokesperson noted that the company is "continuing to expand [its] cloud infrastructure."

In April of this year, Microsoft purchased 300 acres of land within the Victory Logistics District in nearby Fernley, just north of the Silver Springs parcels. That land transaction was valued at $70.5 million, though the cloud giant did not share whether it would be for a data center campus at the time.

Microsoft does not yet operate a cloud region in Nevada.

Switch, Apple, eBay, and Google all have a data center presence in the Reno area. In September 2025, US data center park developer Tract acquired 1,060 acres of land in Silver Springs, just north of Microsoft's parcels.