Manse Tech Investigative Series
We looked into the two companies suing Nye County, CDDC LLC and 9 of a Kind LLC. The owners were not the people at the microphone this summer. Three other men were.
None of them is accused of breaking any law. This story is about who they are and what each one has riding on the lawsuit.
Sean Dalesandro: the pitch man
Sean Dalesandro runs a Las Vegas firm called Osprey Real Estate Capital. In July he became the voice of the data center. He told the Pahrump Valley Times it would cost 18.4 billion dollars, cover about 900 acres and bring 380 permanent jobs. At an online panel in August he told residents, "They don't have to trust me."
In everything we found, he has never said how much power the campus would use. The water, the power lines and the tax numbers all depend on that one number.
The Nevada Independent called him president of Gigawatt Development. State records show Gigawatt Development was formed on March 27, 2026. It is run by another Dalesandro company, SDREI LLC.
Gigawatt's address is a rented office at St. Rose Executive Suites in Henderson. SDREI lists a building on Las Vegas Boulevard that houses a WeWork shared office.
Here is the odd part. Gigawatt is the name on the pitch, but not on the project. The state record for Manse Technology Campus LLC names one boss: NCDC Developer. Its officers are Dalesandro and Jeffrey Canarelli. It works out of the Canarelli office in Summerlin.
Partners since 2022
Dalesandro and Jeffrey Canarelli did not meet over Pahrump. State records show they have shared at least three companies.
- Cheyenne 215 LLC, formed in May 2022 with both men as managers.
- NCDC Developer, formed October 31, 2024. On that same day the Canarellis formed Par Valley Holdings, which later handed 17 Manse parcels to CDDC.
- CD Kyle Canyon LLC, formed in November 2025 with both men as managers. It bought a 13 acre retail site in northwest Las Vegas. A press release named Jeffrey Canarelli president of Bruin Capital Partners, a company run by the Canarelli family's Investment Manager, Inc.
Dalesandro brings the plan and the pitch. The Canarellis bring the land and the money.
Russ Meads: the local face
Russ Meads is a Pahrump builder. His company, Double M Construction, has been in business since 2000. The state contractors board shows three active licenses, including license 0048608A for homes and small commercial buildings.
It filed the rezoning. The June 10 planning commission agenda listed six requests to turn about 1,000 acres into Light Industrial land. That is the zoning a data center needs. Every request named Double M as the applicant and Adaven Management, a Canarelli company, as the owner.
That owner list had a problem. Five of the parcels belonged to 9 of a Kind, not Adaven. 9 of a Kind bought them from a bank in August 2024, using Recorder Document 1035094. So land owned by one of the companies now suing the county was in the request, under a Canarelli name.
It made the water pitch. On August 6, Meads spoke to the Nye County Water District board for Gigawatt, the Pahrump Valley Times reported.
His written packet said the data center would use 192.77 acre-feet of water a year. It compared that to 2,073.40 acre-feet for a housing plan approved on the same land in 2006 and 2007. Those homes were never built. Meads told the board the savings "have to be real savings." But the packet's own housing numbers do not add up. They are off by about 50 acre-feet.
Double M does not own any Manse land. The county assessor lists eight Double M parcels, all on other Pahrump streets.
Its record. In 2012, homeowners in Richland Estates, a Double M subdivision, sued over cracked foundations and walls. Double M's insurance company then went to federal court. It won. The judge said the policy did not cover "earth movement." In 2016 the court ordered Double M to pay the insurer 112,370.50 dollars.
We could not find how the homeowners' case ended.
Jeffrey Gunter: the seller who is still owed
In May, 9 of a Kind paid 5.65 million dollars for two parcels: 68 acres on Manse Road and 65 acres on Thousandaire Boulevard. That is 133 acres. The sellers were Bristol Nevada LLC and Dover Nevada LLC.
Both companies list one manager: Jeffrey Gunter. A name alone is not proof, so we checked which one. Older filings for both companies list Suite 309 at an office building in Lancaster, California. Federal health records list that same suite as the office of Jeffrey Ross Gunter MD Inc., a skin doctor's practice. Another state record, for Jeffrey Ross Gunter MD, LLC, uses the same Las Vegas address and the same agent as Bristol and Dover.
The records point to one man: Jeffrey Ross Gunter, the dermatologist who was U.S. ambassador to Iceland from 2019 to 2021.
A State Department watchdog later found staff described a "threatening and intimidating environment" under him. He lost the 2024 Republican primary for U.S. Senate. On June 9, 2026, he finished third in a Republican primary for Congress.
His companies bought the two parcels cheap after the crash. Bristol paid a bank 930,000 dollars in 2010. Dover paid 375,000 dollars in 2012. Together, about 1.3 million. They sold for 5.65 million.
They did not walk away with all the cash. 9 of a Kind signed a loan promising to pay Bristol and Dover 2,825,000 dollars, half the price. The land backs that loan (Recorder Document 1070969). It is dated May 19, three weeks before Gunter's primary. As of September 28, no payoff has been recorded. So Gunter's companies are now 9 of a Kind's lender.
If 9 of a Kind does not pay, they can take the land back.
He still owns 20 acres on Manse Road
Gunter still owns land there. The county lists a 20 acre parcel at 7531 East Manse Road under Palm Nevada LLC. Its manager is Jeffrey Gunter. Another Gunter company, U.S. Property Corporation, bought it from the FDIC, the agency that takes over failed banks, in 2012 for 179,000 dollars.
That address sits between two addresses in the rezoning request, 7471 and 7661 East Manse Road. The Gunter parcel was left out.
The former ambassador has two stakes in this lawsuit.
His companies are owed 2.8 million dollars on land sold to 9 of a Kind. And one of his companies owns 20 acres sitting between project parcels on Manse Road. If the county's ban falls and the campus moves ahead, that parcel could be worth a lot to the builders around it.
What residents should ask
These men and the owners behind them have questions to answer:
- Who is the real developer, Gigawatt or NCDC? Which one would sign a deal with the county and keep its promises?
- How much power would the campus use?
- Why did the county agenda list Adaven as the owner of land 9 of a Kind has owned since 2024?
- Does Double M have a stake in the project beyond its fee?
- Has anyone offered to buy Gunter's 20 acres?
The county banned data centers in the basin on August 20. A month later, CDDC and 9 of a Kind sued to overturn it.
More to come on this continuing series on Manse Tech.
Every underlined name in this story links to the public record behind it. Nye County Recorder documents can be found by entering the document number on the Recorder's search page.
