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319 Some Datacenters Divert Power from Homes. Will It Drive Homeowners to Solar and Batteries?

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/16/2026 21:34 EDT

Some Datacenters Divert Power from Homes.  Will It Drive Homeowners to Solar and Batteries?

An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:

A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it's redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers, and they have less than a year to find a new power source. It's one of the starkest examples yet of the AI boom's impact on everyday Americans... 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... Data centers dro

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