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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 impa...

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