This actually has been a problem for utilities for a long while.

https://freemannews.tulane.edu...

"As more and more homeowners install solar panels, they generate their own electricity and buy less from utility companies. While consumer solar adoption is good for the environment, it reduces the revenue that utilities generate from consumers. To make up for the shortfall, utilities raise electricity prices, which in turn pushes more people to switch to solar, further decreasing demand for utility-provided power. This âoeutility death spiralâ can lead to skyrocketing prices for consumers and financial instability for utility companies."

EVs were supposed to be a lifeline, but that whole push has been sidelined.

The energy company deciding to end service is not the utility directly serving customers:

"NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied the bulk of Lake Tahoeâ(TM)s electricity for decades, told Liberty Utilities â" the small California company that services the region â" that it will stop providing power after May 2027. The reason: NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers being built by Google, Apple, and Microsoft around the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center east of Reno, according to Fortune."

Liberty Utilities is the electric company. NV Energy is their main supplier. NV Energy found a customer willing to pay more, and is giving Liberty Utilities notice to figure out a different method to make up the shortfall. Is Liberty negligent? Not at all:

https://california.libertyutil...

https://california.libertyutil...

"Liberty is preparing for a planned transition in our supplemental energy supply beginning in 2028, while continuing to provide safe, reliable electric service to our customers. Liberty began this process in 2019 when Liberty filed for the transmission capacity reservations to enable this transition to the market. Liberty cannot access the greater energy market without these transmission rights, and weâ(TM)re excited to receive those rights when NV Energyâ(TM)s Greenlink-West project goes into service, expected December 31, 2027.
Today, we serve customers through a combination of Liberty-owned solar generation and supplemental wholesale power purchased from NV Energy. Our 60 megawatts of locally owned solar generation will continue to play an important role in our long-term energy mix.
Beginning in 2028, NV Energy will no longer serve as our wholesale energy supplier. To prepare for this transition, we are pursuing a competitive process to secure new supplemental energy supply arrangements focused on sustainability, affordability, and reliability. NV Energy will remain our transmission provider and neighbor, and we will continue using the existing transmission system to deliver electricity to our service territory."

The problem is that apparently NV Energy is moving up the deadline from beginning 2028 to May of 2027... effectively giving 1 year notice to Liberty Utilities basically from now.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/12...

"Data centers used 22% of Nevadaâ(TM)s electricity in 2024, and that share could rise to 35% by 2030. In NV Energyâ(TM)s own 2024 resource plan, about 75% of major-project load growth is attributed to data centers, according to Sierra Club expert testimony filed with Nevada regulators and reviewed by Fortune, and most of it is concentrated in Northern Nevadaâ"using the same system that feeds power to Lake Tahoe.

NV Energy is building Greenlink West, a 525-kV, $4.2 billion transmission line from Las Vegas to Yerington, expected online in May 2027. Schwarzrock said Liberty would be âoefirst in the waiting lineâ when Greenlink opens, giving it access to a wider pool of energy providers. But that timeline matches the contract deadline exactly, leaving almost no margin for error. About 70% of the projectâ(TM)s costs will be borne by Southern Nevada customers. "

So basically Liberty was expecting until December 2027 to make the transition, understandably allowing for delays and other transition activities. NV Energy is basically saying - there will be no delays, be prepared for the cutover to happen in May.

I'm not going to call the parent article complete flamebait, because it does highlight the very specific problem that the Tahoe grid has (it doesn't connect to California, but it is regulated by California regulators.) However, it is a far cry from saying that datacenters are going to cause Tahoe to go dark. That's a potential possibility if there are delays but NV Energy decides to cut them off anyway, but it is not a definite likelyhood.

This is just more datacenter FUD.

Given the fake sources, the fake content, and the left-out content to bias articles along with the insane behavior by the entrenched, abusive "admins" who have [[WP:OWN]]ership complexes, Wikipedia is basically trash anyways...

I've read that the way it works is that the data centers bring in lots of new energy generation, then under the state's emergency plans, the data center can be automatically (fully or partially) shut down.

So the effect is really to make energy resources much more stable, which lowers overall energy costs for residents.

But I haven't read enough to know whether this is really true.

The concept of "god" is literally the dumbest fucking shit ever, designed to control the Inbred Trashyokels and Goatfuckers from 2-4000 years ago. We should have long moved away from that Cult Crap.

We had the Telecomm act and legal requirements for wired service for a reason. The cell networks have shirked this for too long.

And let's not overlook that this is yet another attempt by the AI lobby to convince the public that AI "thinks," and even has the same concerns that human workers do. Which it doesn't. But the more the public believes that these algorithms are comparable to human intelligence, the better it is for all the people who keep pouring money into this bubble.

The same guy the entire board fired for his constant lying and backstabbing practices?

I'm being reset down to -1 all the time. It went up to 0 for the first time in nearly 2 years a week ago, then, without getting any downvotes, it was reset to -1 again the next day.

Slashdot does not tolerate anyone in the middle. That's woke tolerance for you. You're right, it didn't used to be like this around here.

Weekend fun car would be the summer car.
Remember, the winter car is used for dirty tasks even in the summer.

LOL he gives someone a platform? HOW DARE HE? How dare he let someone in the middle have a voice! The ONE Democrat in Congress who rarely votes outside the party block and you equate Maher to Hitler for merely letting him talk?

Maby you're the nutter.

I'd be much more focused on recommendation systems that push people into political and conspiratorial silos, the bullshit that is, you know, destroying our societies and pushing us to mindless extremes.

Forget legal power ... HOW? What technical mechanism does the FCC have that can block firmware updates over the public internet? Are we proposing a China-style "Great Firewall" for U.S. consumers?

On the contrary, evidence seems to suggest that AI has long been very good at generating zero-day vulnerabilities. It has a little more trouble with identifying and avoiding them.

You do have people doing that in the UK, but it is more people with million pound incomes.
I also lived in the midwest and never had seasonal cars. Now I have a car and a truck. I drive the car unless I need the truck.