Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers
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A hot potato: Residents in many US states have reacted angrily as AI data centers spring up across the country, citing environmental impacts and rising utility bills. In one particularly egregious case, around 49,000 people now have one year to find a new power source while their current supplier pivots to data centers.
A Nevada energy company recently informed a nearby California utility provider that it will no longer supply electricity to 49,000 Lake Tahoe customers after May 2027. Although the decision is not tied to a specific AI data center, data centers have grown their footprint in Nevada significantly in recent years.
The affected residents, living near the California-Nevada border, are in a unique predicament: served by California-based Liberty Utilities, which receives 75% of its power from NV Energy across the border....
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