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Title: Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to
Post by: rcjordan on May 13, 2026, 04:53:51 PM

...data centers

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

Title: Re: Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to
Post by: Brad on May 14, 2026, 06:19:23 AM

No warm and fuzzy, we're going straight to loot and pillage stage.

Title: Re: Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to
Post by: ergophobe on May 19, 2026, 03:20:01 PM

As expected, more complex than "data center steals residential power."

Truckee resident spent 5 days with us of a long weekend and showed me this

https://www.moonshineink.com/tahoe-news/a-shock-to-the-system/

Yes, data center demand is the proximate cause, but this area was supposed to separate from NV power in 2015 as a result of 2009 reorganizations and purchases. They got two five-year extensions and were hoping for a third, but the data center demand killed the third extension. But the cutoff has been in the plans since 2009.

The Core

Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on May 13, 2026, 04:53:51 PM