Une entreprise de services publics du Nevada cessera de fournir de l'électricité aux résidents du lac Tahoe d'ici 2027

14 mai 2026

Une société énergétique basée au Nevada prévoit de cesser la fourniture d'électricité à environ 49 000 résidents près du lac Tahoe d'ici mai 2027. Cette décision contraint le fournisseur local californien à chercher une solution de remplacement dans un contexte de demande croissante de la part des centres de données.

Liberty Utilities, qui dessert le côté californien du lac Tahoe, tire actuellement 75 % de son électricité de NV Energy. L'entreprise du Nevada a informé Liberty qu'elle mettrait fin à l'accord d'ici mai 2027 afin de libérer de la capacité pour de nouveaux projets de centres de données dans le nord du Nevada.

Ce que les gens disent

Les utilisateurs expriment leur frustration face à la décision de NV Energy de rediriger l'électricité des résidents du lac Tahoe vers les centres de données, s'inquiétant de l'impact de la demande liée à l'IA sur l'approvisionnement local et appelant à des changements réglementaires.

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 mai 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 mai 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 mai 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 mai 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 (@Sam_Romain) 14 mai 2026

Sources

• 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/