"Nearly 50K people🚨in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, bc🚨it's redirecting that power to #DataCenters.

NV Energy *NV utility that's supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades,🚨says that next year it'll stop servicing homes in the area, & instead direct that #electricity to the growing demand from NV DCs.

No NV is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the C.
-More Perfect Union

#AI #USPol
https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/

Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.

Fortune

@KimPerales

That "Government by the people, for the people" slogan, what happened to that?

@seindal @KimPerales I’m guessing government got out of power supply long ago, there