Nevadabaserat elbolag avslutar elleveranser till invånare vid Lake Tahoe senast 2027

14 maj 2026

Ett energibolag baserat i Nevada planerar att sluta leverera elektricitet till cirka 49 000 invånare nära Lake Tahoe senast i maj 2027. Beslutet tvingar den lokala leverantören i Kalifornien att skyndsamt hitta en ersättare mitt under en period av ökad efterfrågan från datacenter.

Liberty Utilities, som betjänar den kaliforniska sidan av Lake Tahoe, får för närvarande 75 procent av sin el från NV Energy. Elbolaget i Nevada har meddelat Liberty att de kommer att avsluta avtalet senast i maj 2027 för att frigöra kapacitet för nya datacenterprojekt i norra Nevada.

Vad folk säger

Användare uttrycker frustration över att NV Energy styr om el från invånare vid Lake Tahoe till datacenter, med oro för att AI-driven efterfrågan påverkar den lokala tillgången samt krav på regulatoriska förändringar.

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 maj 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 maj 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 maj 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 maj 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 maj 2026

Källor

• 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/