Snapshot · Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Nevada utility NV Energy informed Lake Tahoe-area provider Liberty Utilities it will stop delivering power to approximately 50,000 residents after May 2027, redirecting supply to data centers.
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The Austin Energy texts prompt a broader conversation about data centers and the electrical grid. Nate pulls up a news report: NV Energy, Nevada's primary utility, informed Liberty Utilities — the provider for 50,000 people near Lake Tahoe — that it intends to stop delivering power to the region sometime after May 2027, forcing them to find a new energy source. The reason: all the power is going to data centers being built in North Las Vegas. The detail that makes it worse — data centers are apparently underreporting their projected consumption, making the situation harder to plan around. [1] — Nate Marshall "NV Energy is abandoning 50,000 residents in the Lake Tahoe area after May 2027, redirecting electricity to data centers in North Las Vegas.…" 1:08:00 Matt expresses genuine disbelief that a utility can legally abandon 50,000 customers, but the numbers are in the news story. Nate points out it's always the poorest, lowest-density communities that get these facilities — and then pay the price. The wifi-sees-through-walls digression follows: Nate mentions that WiFi signal interference can be used to map the contents of a room, which he believes the military already does.
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