Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers
https://www.techspot.com/news/112403-nearly-50000-lake-tahoe-residents-have-one-year.html
Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers
https://www.techspot.com/news/112403-nearly-50000-lake-tahoe-residents-have-one-year.html
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Yay, Capitalism!
This really sucks. I know it’s not as feasible for many to get a whole house system and battery back up like we have for our home, but I’ve been reading about smaller solar set ups that could help.
Fine them a million dollars a day until they fix it. Problem solved.
Since city officials are are so keen on green lighting these data centers why don’t they make data centers foot the bill for solar farms that can offset the costs of energy
Stuff like this makes me realise that the value of your house is incredibly dependent on public utilities that you have no control over.
If they suddenly stopped providing clean water and electricity to my house, it would become almost worthless overnight.
“While NV Energy claims the transition has been planned and delayed twice since 2009 – long before the current AI boom”
This is clickbait meant to make you angry. The move has been planned for more than ten years, well before datacenter power usage was an issue. NV Energy has made it clear that they’re ending their wholesale agreement and for some reason, Liberty and Cali/Nevada have made no effort to fill the gap.
Huh. Because there is one of those on every street corner to choose from. If I am not mistaken, over the decades states have created a structure where there is only one company to choose from. At least that is the case where I am
> 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. … NV Energy claims the transition has been planned and delayed twice since 2009 – long before the current AI boom
It seems like this was a known thing and everyone just thought it would never actually happen.
I mean, I didn’t want a pivot to individual renewable this way but silver lining?
This is insane. How is this legal?
Time for some thermite termites
This has been planned for years. Liberty energy gets power from Nevada Energy. It was supposed to be a short term deal while Nevada Energy built a new grid. The new grid allows for multiple energy providers to supply energy. Nevada Energy has always said it will stop providing to Liberty as soon as more providers were available. The short term deal has been extended many times because the new grid was not available.
Nevada energy is finally completing the grid. Their contract with Liberty is expiring. Liberty is free to make deals with other providers. It just hasn’t happened yet because the grid isn’t live yet, but should be by the time the contract expires later this year.
This is not an emergency. This has been known for years. It is still true that the new deal will be crap and rates will skyrocket. It’s still true that energy regulations suck. But this is not the crisis click baity articles want you to think it is.
Unregulated power utilities new play. Coming soon to TX. Enjoy!
This is what happens when you vote for Joe Lombardo. He’s all for the data centers.
So we’re all unemployed. AI and automated robots do all the work. There is no UBI. No one has money.
Who is going to pay for the products and services provided by these data centers?
Why do these greedy people want power when the Epstein class obviously needs it???
Or just keep halting / ruining the data center building process
It also means they have one year to fight like crazy to get it stopped being built. It would be a shame if during that time period a bunch of rare native plants that are protected were found in that area.
So data centers get priority over 50k residents. wild how that works.
NV Energy is owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
The article is essentially lying. There are changes in infrastructure. There will be virtually no disruption in service. This is just pure fear propaganda for clicks.
For all the top comments talking about safeguards and legality, that should have been your smell test.
Going to have to take away the utilities right of way on property lines.
This is a fucking wild double-whammy. Soak up tons of electricity and stop producing electricity. Very destructive situation.
Just a microcosm of what’s to come as data and computing power out-paces the importance of human well-being.
We need a revolution BADLY.
Oh yeah, cool, let me just shop around… Who has a choice? I believe my entire state has one provider.
Blatant corruption and abandonment of the people. Don’t follow their laws, don’t pay their taxes – stand up and fight!
Ah yes… ‘tis but a routine activity as trivial as buying groceries. Just waltz down to Public Energy Mart and buy another power company on your way home from work.
They should be fined to oblivion, leadership arrested, and then have all assets nationalized.
Hey America, how’s all that winning going for you?
Every year there’s a new reason why utilities need to be fully publicly owned or more strictly controlled.
Texas winters, forest fires, and now AI is giving us dozens of examples all at once.
This type of bullshit is quickly becoming a nationwide crisis. Residents shouldn’t be stuck paying inflated water and electric bills due to these data centers invading everyone’s home towns.