NV Energy is cutting power to 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents to make room for AI data centers

The Nevada utility will stop supplying electricity to the region after May 2027, leaving Liberty Utilities scrambling to find a replacement source

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According to Fortune, Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.B-owned NV Energy has informed the Lake Tahoe region's local provider that its wholesale electricity deliveries to the area will end after May 2027. The reason cited for the cutoff is capacity demand from data centers expanding across northern Nevada.

At present, three-quarters of Liberty's electricity supply flows from NV Energy, while the other quarter is generated at solar installations Liberty operates in Nevada. Finding a substitute supplier before the May 2027 deadline will not be easy — Liberty itself has called current market conditions "extremely competitive," according to Bloomberg.

Northern Nevada has become one of the fastest-growing data center corridors in the country. Major technology companies including Google $GOOGL, Apple $AAPL, and Microsoft $MSFT........

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