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Utility Provider Cutting Electricity for 50k Lake Tahoe Residents to Power AI Data Centers​

Lake Tahoe residents may soon lose access to their electricity. NV Energy will stop service to homes in the next year, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers.

Energy Diversion:NV Energy – the Nevada utility company that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades – has informed Lake Tahoe's Liberty Utilities that intends to will stop delivering power to the region sometime after May 2027, forcing the provider responsible for servicing 50k area residents to scramble for replacement energy sources.

Data Center Demand: Northern Nevada has emerged as one of the country’s fastest-growing AI infrastructure hubs, with Google, Apple, and Microsoft expanding operations around the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center near Reno. Climate group "Western Resource Advocacy" estimates that 12 proposed data center projects in Northern Nevada will demand nearly 5,900 megawatts of electricity by 2033, a staggering increase tied directly to AI compute growth.

Locals Abandoned: Tahoe residents and energy advocates say the region is being sacrificed to support industrial-scale AI expansion. “It’s like we don’t exist,” Danielle Hughes – the CEO of consumer electricity advocacy group "Tahoe Spark" – told Fortune. The changes are anticipated to take place in May 2027, creating an uncertain future for leisure activities one of America's largest ski and recreation areas.

city supply after next ski season as Nevada redirects power capacity toward AI data centers, putting nearly 50,000 residents—and one of America’s busiest tourist regions—at risk.

MAGA: Pull out your hamster wheels. Communist Solar Panels are banned.
 

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TPenglake

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Take off your rose-colored glasses. Have you ever lived in Russia or a country under Russian influence? There's no talk of any technology here. Just look at the state of robotics, AI, and internet infrastructure—it's at the very least like it was in the early 2000s. Russian is my native language, and I read, communicate, and personally witness the economic horror unfolding within Russia. This country can't even provide for itself without China, let alone Korea.
The testimonies of Chinese tourists on social media after Russia became visa free attest to this. Chinese gained the option of visiting a beautiful European country visa free, rather than having to go through the hassle of obtaining visas for Western Europe, but as of today would still overwhelmngly rather go to Korea, Thailand, and even Vietnam. Reasons during the first travel wave, so before the current Ukrainian drone strikes, and pretty much only travel wave was that due to sanctions you can't use digital payments in Russia and because international 5 star hotel chains pulled out after the war started, the only options were local hotels which all suck. Internet connection was also very spotty, which is a giant no no for how phone reliant Chinese are nowadays. Also the economy is not sanction proof and many attested to Moscow and St. Petersburg being very expensive. (The notoriously corrupt taxis and poor service staff everywhere didn't help either, but I digress since this is about economics)
 

supercat

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Make no mistake: Western regimes will do to China exactly what they did to the USSR. $1.6 billion is just the tip of the iceberg.

Britain’s secret ‘black propaganda’ operations​

Exclusive: Top secret files expose how the UK government forged documents, controlled news agencies, and cultivated journalists amid the Cold War struggle for influence and power.
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House passes $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas​

Somehow it’s a crime when Russia does it to us, but good 'information ops' when we want to discredit Beijing’s Belt & Road initiatives worldwide
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Instead of spreading BS, why don't you go to China and take a look yourself, like tens of millions foreigners did visa-free?
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MAGA: Pull out your hamster wheels. Communist Solar Panels are banned.
This reminds me of what I just saw:
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This is an analysis and commentary by Jackson Hinkle, an executive committee member of ACP, on the remarks made by a right-wing American.

This person, Mentiswave, is a typical market fundamentalist. He downplays China’s early economic achievements and makes a dangerous analogy. He uses the "demons" from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End as a metaphor for China. This is dangerous because, in the manga, demons are depicted as beings who lack empathy and specialize in deceiving humans.
This represents a typical form of hubris. By using such imagery, he is essentially excluding 1.4 billion people from the human race.
 
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