Nicole Jeanette Cannizzaro

In the legislature, she’s put public safety front and center: protecting local police departments from budget cuts, cracking down on fentanyl trafficking, and passing new laws to target AI generated child pornography and the predators who distribute it. She’s kept Nevadans safe as a prosecutor and a legislator, and she will continue to do so as our next Attorney General.” - Steve Wolfson, Clark County District Attorney

Require data center operators to cover the cost of the new and ongoing power and water infrastructure their facilities require

Ban data centers by law from passing their utility costs onto individual Nevadans and other businesses

Ban the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, local governments, and other agencies from using non-disclosure agreements and secret deals that hide the impact of data centers on tax revenue, utility loads, and water resources

Require counties and local governments to give communities a voice in the siting and approval of new data centers

Require companies driving this demand construct their facilities with union labor and project labor agreements

As a former prosecutor, Nicole believes that nobody is above the law. She will force Big Tech and data center companies to play by the same rules as everyone else.

Nicole won’t stand for a federal government that tramples on Nevada and Nevadans’ rights. She’ll fight back if Trump or Congress try to take away Nevadans’ access to health care, gut federal funding for K-12 and higher education, ignore the promises made to our veterans, or turn Nevada into a nuclear waste dumping ground.

Protecting Reproductive Rights

CIVIL AND VOTING RIGHTS

AI data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity and water, exacerbate the urban heat island effect, and generate noise pollution that disrupts local communities. Nicole will make sure this new demand doesn't threaten the water we all depend on or increase utility costs for Nevada families by:

As Attorney General, Nicole will use every tool at her disposal to protect Nevadans’ reproductive rights, including abortion rights, birth control, and the right to IVF. If the federal government or other states try to infringe on Nevadans’ rights, she will take them to court. And she’ll protect women and doctors from prosecution or harassment for seeking or providing legal reproductive health care.

Support law enforcement efforts to combat drug trafficking and human trafficking.

• Coordinate Attorney General enforcement with law enforcement.
• Focus on high-level trafficking activity.

Prevent gun violence by getting untraceable ghost guns off Nevada streets.

• Target unserialized and untraceable firearms through lawful enforcement.

Use the Attorney General's authority to protect children from online exploitation.

• Enforce laws addressing digital abuse and exploitation.

Crack down on fraudsters and scammers targeting Nevadans.

• Prioritize schemes that target seniors and vulnerable residents.

Use the Attorney General's legal authority to protect abortion rights, access to birth control, and IVF.

• Defend Nevada reproductive-rights protections.
• Use available legal tools against infringement.

Take federal officials or other states to court when they attempt to infringe Nevada reproductive rights.

• Litigate to protect Nevada law and residents.
• Resist extraterritorial interference.

Protect patients and medical providers from prosecution or harassment for seeking or providing legal reproductive health care in Nevada.

• Defend lawful care.
• Protect both recipients and providers.

Pursue corporations and corporate investors that defraud consumers or unlawfully raise costs.

• Address misconduct involving groceries, housing, utilities, and prescription drugs.
• Use consumer-protection enforcement.

Protect workers' right to organize and enforce wage and benefit laws.

• Enforce existing labor protections.
• Defend lawful collective organization.

Take enforcement action against wage theft and worker misclassification.

• Recover pay workers lawfully earned.
• Prevent employers from evading obligations through misclassification.

Fight federal actions that would reduce Nevadans' access to health care.

• Use state legal authority where federal action threatens access.

Fight federal efforts to cut K-12 and higher-education funding for Nevada.

• Defend funding for public schools and colleges.

Fight federal actions that break legal commitments to Nevada veterans.

• Protect veterans' services and benefits.

Oppose federal efforts to use Nevada as a nuclear-waste disposal site.

• Use legal action to resist unwanted federal disposal plans.

Protect Nevada's clean-energy economy, natural environment, and public access to public lands.

• Challenge corporate polluters.
• Defend public lands from disposal without public benefit.

Protect Nevadans from bad actors who exploit extreme heat, fires, or other climate-related emergencies.

• Use consumer and enforcement authority during disasters.

Use the Attorney General's authority to protect Nevadans from illegal discrimination.

• Litigate against unlawful infringement of civil rights.

Defend election integrity and every eligible Nevadan's right to vote.

• Use litigation when state or federal actors infringe voting rights.

Require data-center operators to cover the new and ongoing power and water infrastructure their facilities require.

• Prevent infrastructure costs from being shifted to the public.

Prohibit data centers from passing their utility costs to individual Nevadans and other businesses.

• Protect residential and business ratepayers.

Ban secret data-center development deals and require communities to have a voice in siting and approval.

• Prohibit nondisclosure agreements hiding tax, utility, or water impacts.
• Require local participation in approvals.

Require data-center facilities to be built with union labor and project labor agreements.

• Apply labor standards to construction driven by new data-center demand.

Give the Bureau of Consumer Protection additional resources to represent ratepayers before the Public Utilities Commission.

• Expand consumer advocacy capacity in utility proceedings.

Require thorough environmental review of each proposed data center and public reporting of its power and water use.

• Examine local air-quality impacts.
• Publish accurate electricity and water consumption.

Require data centers to use less water-intensive approaches and subject behind-the-meter power sources to utility and consumer-protection oversight.

• Encourage closed-loop cooling.
• Apply PUC and Bureau of Consumer Protection monitoring.