Perusahaan listrik Nevada akan menghentikan pasokan listrik ke penduduk Danau Tahoe pada 2027

Kamis, 14 Mei 2026

Sebuah perusahaan energi yang berbasis di Nevada berencana untuk berhenti menyuplai listrik kepada sekitar 49.000 penduduk di dekat Danau Tahoe pada Mei 2027. Langkah ini membuat penyedia layanan lokal di California harus bergegas mencari pengganti di tengah meningkatnya permintaan dari pusat data.

Liberty Utilities, yang melayani wilayah Danau Tahoe di sisi California, saat ini mendapatkan 75 persen pasokannya dari NV Energy. Perusahaan listrik Nevada tersebut telah memberi tahu Liberty bahwa mereka akan mengakhiri perjanjian tersebut pada Mei 2027 guna mengosongkan kapasitas untuk proyek pusat data baru di Nevada utara.

Apa yang dikatakan orang

Para pengguna mengungkapkan rasa frustrasi terhadap keputusan NV Energy yang mengalihkan listrik dari penduduk Danau Tahoe untuk pusat data, dengan kekhawatiran bahwa permintaan yang didorong oleh kecerdasan buatan (AI) akan berdampak pada pasokan lokal serta adanya seruan untuk melakukan perubahan regulasi.

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 Mei 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 Mei 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 Mei 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 Mei 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 Mei 2026

Sumber

• 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/