Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers

The tourist and ski resort town of Lake Tahoe must scramble to find a new energy supplier by May 2027—the result of a Nevada utility company saying it needs the power capacity in part for new data centers. The resulting energy crisis impacts 49,000 California residents who live near Lake Tahoe, nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains on the border between California and Nevada. Lake Tahoe’s local electricity provider, California-based Liberty Utilities, has been obtaining 75 percent of its power