49,000 Lake Tahoe Residents Have One Year to Find New Power

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Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
arstechnica.com

... The tourist and ski resort town of Lake Tahoe must scramble to find a new energy supplier by May 2027 -- the result of a Nevada utility company saying it needs the power capacity in part for new data centers.

The resulting energy crisis impacts 49,000 California residents who live near Lake Tahoe, nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains on the border between California and Nevada.

Lake Tahoe's local electricity provider, California-based Liberty Utilities, has been obtaining 75 percent of its power from the Nevada-based company NV Energy. But the latter has said it will stop providing power to the Lake Tahoe region by May 2027, according to extensive reporting by Fortune.

Nevada's fast-growing data center development is one of the main reasons given by NV Energy for ending its energy supply agreement with Liberty, according to a Liberty filing with California regulators. Fortune highlighted data from NV Energy's own planning documents showing that a dozen data center projects in northern Nevada could drive 5,900 megawatts of new demand by 2033. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-17 10:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

As a very poor person, I learned early and often that while we are allowed to vote, the politically powerful are those who are rich and control corporations. The rest of us are tolerated. The day that our votes really matter, when we take down the billionaire bullies, is the day that a creature like Trump outlaws voting and his Fascist MAGA gang put their brownshirts on for real.

#2 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-05-18 07:04 AM | Reply

Just more proof that the free market will handle all our problems. Thanks capitalism!

#3 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-05-18 07:06 AM | Reply

Stop calling them the sanitized wording the tech bros put out with that "data center" nonsense.

They're security and surveillance centers.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-18 09:46 AM | Reply

Hey I heard too that AIs were gonna drain the lake of all the water.

#5 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-05-18 10:03 AM | Reply

Let them bake cakes in solar ovens ... .or something like that

#6 | Posted by 2020Rocks at 2026-05-18 04:09 PM | Reply

49,000 California residents

-will experience no change, their power will be constant and the bill will go up as usual.
More Drama Queen clap-trap

#7 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-05-18 07:19 PM | Reply