"No Power for you" [View all]

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Your favorite ski getaway might lose the lights. Nevada’s largest utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents they’re getting disconnected in May 2027—not because the power grid failed, but because Google, Apple, and Microsoft need that electricity for their AI data centers instead.

Yes, you read that correctly. 49,000 people are going to have their power cut off so the power company can provide an Al data center with more power.
Explain to me how these 49,000 homes are supposed to get power? All power companies local monopolies, it's not like you can switch it to another provider like is a phone service. The power company said, "fuck you, freeze to death" because I don't know if you have ever been to the Lake Tahoe area in winter but it's fucking cold.

Imagine you work at that data center and you are one of those homes having its power cut off to make your billionaire employer even more money.

They got mad when they burned down a warehouse full of paper, how mad you think they are going to get when multi-million dollar data centers start burning down all over the country?

Reference:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/almost-50-000-lake-tahoe-180520687.html