NV Energy is cutting off 49,000 residents to feed data centers

In March, NV Energy told a small California utility to find electricity elsewhere. By May, the rest of the country noticed. The reason? NV Energy needs the power for data centers.Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents are about to lose 75% of their electricity supply. Their utility, Liberty Utilities, gets the other 75% from NV Energy under a decades-old arrangement. That contract expires in May 2027. NV Energy is not renewing it.NV Energy spokesperson Katie Jo Collier says this was "a planned tran...