Empresa eléctrica de Nevada dejará de suministrar energía a residentes de Lake Tahoe para 2027

14 de mayo de 2026

Una compañía energética con sede en Nevada planea dejar de suministrar electricidad a unos 49,000 residentes cerca de Lake Tahoe para mayo de 2027. La medida obliga al proveedor local de California a buscar urgentemente un reemplazo en medio de la creciente demanda de los centros de datos.

Liberty Utilities, que presta servicio al lado californiano de Lake Tahoe, obtiene actualmente el 75 por ciento de su energía de NV Energy. La empresa de servicios públicos de Nevada ha informado a Liberty que finalizará el acuerdo para mayo de 2027 con el fin de liberar capacidad para nuevos proyectos de centros de datos en el norte de Nevada.

Qué dice la gente

Los usuarios expresan su frustración por la decisión de NV Energy de redirigir la energía de los residentes de Lake Tahoe hacia los centros de datos, con preocupaciones sobre el impacto de la demanda impulsada por la IA en el suministro local y llamados a realizar cambios regulatorios.

The fvck it isn't.

They have us on water restrictions here while a data center is being built that will use over 5M gallons PER DAY.

50,000 Nevada residents near Tahoe just found out they're cutting off their electricity to redirect it to a fvcking data center.

— Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (@PalominoOMG) 14 de mayo de 2026

🦔NV Energy is ending its power supply agreement with Lake Tahoe by May 2027, citing data center demand in northern Nevada. 49,000 California residents who get their electricity through Liberty Utilities, which sources 75% of its power from NV Energy, now have one year to find a… pic.twitter.com/HLQlRxucUe

— Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) 14 de mayo de 2026

As AI data centers boom in the Lake Tahoe area, the Sierra Nevada tourist hub faces an energy crisis due to the redirecting of power lines to support the massive data centers.

￭ The region has become a fast-growing data center corridor in the US. Microsoft, Google, and Apple… pic.twitter.com/m8lXeQ0C4C

— VPol (@VocalPolitics1) 14 de mayo de 2026

A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents it's redirecting 75% of their power to AI data centers. Oregon now forces DCs to pay full grid costs. The data center ratepayer reckoning is here.#DataCenters #EnergyTransition

— SustInfra (@InfraSust) 14 de mayo de 2026

Nevada gave Vantage tax abatements to build a 224 MW data center that draws more power than all of Lake Tahoe. Now 49,000 Americans on the California side lose their power supplier so a subsidized AI campus can run. Taxpayers paid to displace ratepayers. https://t.co/7EdyGZ6fwa

— Sam Romain (@SamRomain) 14 de mayo de 2026

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• https://www.techradar.com/pro/one-of-the-biggest-data-center-projects-in-the-us-found-to-be-sucking-up-29-million-gallons-of-water-over-15-months-and-local-residents-only-found-out-after-complaining-of-low-pressure-when-they-were-initially-told-to-stop-watering-their-lawns
• https://www.techradar.com/pro/not-in-my-backyard-new-gallup-data-shows-most-americans-would-rather-have-a-nuclear-power-plant-in-their-neighborhood-than-a-data-center
• https://www.techradar.com/pro/utah-just-approved-a-data-center-twice-the-size-of-manhattan-that-will-consume-more-electricity-than-the-entire-state
• https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/energy-supplier-abandons-lake-tahoe-residents-to-serve-data-centers/
• https://www.techradar.com/pro/self-destructing-usd2-000-nvidia-chips-will-soon-power-tens-of-thousands-of-solar-run-data-centres-hidden-in-lampposts
• https://www.engadget.com/2173078/americans-really-dont-want-ai-data-centers-close-to-their-homes/