„Es ist, als ob wir nicht existieren“: Fast 50.000 Einwohner von Lake Tahoe sind mit Stromausfällen konfrontiert, da das Versorgungsunternehmen Leitungen zu Rechenzentren umleitet
https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/
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What a clusterfuck. That article raised my blood pressure a bit.
Man, this whole data center thing seems like it might not be such a good idea
Class action or riot?
So people are going without power so the aristocracy can take all our jobs away, is that right…
Right now the USA under Trump is pretty much „lets see how much illegal / shady shit I can get away with before someone stops me“ for most tech companies and likely many other companies as well.
This is the stuff that is getting reported on and we are being made aware of.. how much is happening that is flying under the radar? Likely a fuckton.
Pretty sure the Terminator timeline would be proud.
It is 100% time for residential to go solar and tell the utilities to go fuck themselves.
Kind of amused where I lived a few years ago we were told prepare for rolling blackouts in the summer. Now they are building a data center but “all the water and electricity is covered”….
Press X to doubt.
So what exactly happens from this? It honestly sounds insane that a massive power company is just kicking people off its plan to give power to massive data centers? Where the fuck is anyone in government? Where are the massive protest in the street? It’s not like Republicans and Democrats are a fan of this. Is electricity not a basic human, right ? What’s next are they gonna stop providing water and food ? Dystopian hellhole the US is becoming at a rapid rate. I am not an American, but these articles just make me so confused and empty if that makes sense. Do you have to question how long the world has left? Our lifetimes?
This is also a failure on the politicians who supposedly represent them. They blindly agree to the development but do nothing to assure energy resiliency to their residents? They sadly don’t care about doing the real work, just getting re-elected.
AI for cancer research is one thing.
AI so we can see topless Sydney Sweeny riding atop a flying pig is quite another.
Wouldnt this be solved if we just force the tech companies backing these data centers to invest in sufficient power / water that doesn’t affect the civilians nearby? Or are the local politicians paid off everywhere
Data centers should be required to have their own power and water supplies with strict environmental regulations.
Sounds like this utility has had 18 years to find a new power source and they haven’t done that yet. Now they are panicking despite this having been a long time requirement before data center boom.
Time for solar
This is a situation where having investigative reporters would be really nice.
The people living in Lake Tahoe voted for this.
„It’s like we don’t exist“ – you DON’T exist for them! When will you guys finally realise it?
That’s because they *don’t* exist. Might as well be invisible people.
The data centers aren’t for *you*. They’re so the government can sell software and services to other countries.
This is what will float the elite class while the commoners starve. Being that they aren’t commoners, the elite class really doesn’t give a fuck.
Burn. Them. Down. Every single data center. Burn it down.
The policing age and oligarch rule has begun. Bow to your new masters
This is exactly the maga/tech bro billionaire bs you voted for – as krasnov says, “enjoy!”
My favorite thing is how Republicans claimed our grid could not support electric cars, but data centers perfectly fine.
Why don’t 50,000 residents go turn off the data center?
I don’t like data centers or Liberty but this is a clickbait headline. No one is going to get left in the dark, they are just going to get their power from other sources in Nevada.
If they don’t get that figured out in time for next year, they’ll just extend the current agreement with NV Energy like they’ve done for the past couple decades.