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angrychair

(12,483 posts) Fri May 15, 2026, 01:57 AM 14 hrs ago

"No Power for you"

Your favorite ski getaway might lose the lights. Nevada’s largest utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents they’re getting disconnected in May 2027—not because the power grid failed, but because Google, Apple, and Microsoft need that electricity for their AI data centers instead.

Yes, you read that correctly. 49,000 people are going to have their power cut off so the power company can provide an Al data center with more power.
Explain to me how these 49,000 homes are supposed to get power? All power companies local monopolies, it's not like you can switch it to another provider like is a phone service. The power company said, "fuck you, freeze to death" because I don't know if you have ever been to the Lake Tahoe area in winter but it's fucking cold.

Imagine you work at that data center and you are one of those homes having its power cut off to make your billionaire employer even more money.

They got mad when they burned down a warehouse full of paper, how mad you think they are going to get when multi-million dollar data centers start burning down all over the country?

Reference:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/almost-50-000-lake-tahoe-180520687.html

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"No Power for you" (Original Post) angrychair 14 hrs ago OP

isn't that a wealthy area? Skittles 13 hrs ago #1

Yes and no. Mister Ed 12 hrs ago #2

Skittles

(172,773 posts)

1. isn't that a wealthy area?

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2026, 02:48 AM

13 hrs ago

if they can do that to them, just imagine.......

Mister Ed

(6,988 posts)

2. Yes and no.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #1)

Fri May 15, 2026, 04:00 AM

12 hrs ago

There are many, many people of ordinary means, but there are some of extraordinary wealth. When I visited there two years ago, a local told me that in Incline Village, on the Nevada side of the lake, the millionaires are being squeezed out by the billionaires.

That same local also told me that in Homewood, on the California side, Mark Zuckerberg has been buying up all the contiguous lakeshore property with an idea toward eventually converting the Homewood ski area, much beloved by the locals, into a private, members-only resort.

It's hard to guess how all of that will play out in the competition for power (electrical and otherwise).

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