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'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers
NV Energy told Liberty Utilities, which serves about 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents, that it will stop supplying power after May 2027 because it needs the capacity for data centres. The region has less than a year to find another source of electricity.
- Language it was published in
- en
- Date it happened
- 2026-05-12
- Organisation involved
- NV Energy
- Product, system or model
- Power supply to Lake Tahoe
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