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Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers (www.techspot.com)
submitted 2 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

“In other news, 50,000 people wearing ski masks manually disassemble a data center.”

In a better world, I’d be reading that headline.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 1 points 12 minutes ago

Also "50,000 Lake Tahoans visit the houses of utilities CEOs in the night and thoroughly encourage them to review their policy shifts"

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 7 points 54 minutes ago

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 25 points 2 hours ago

a new low for AI. Potentially putting people out of home now.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

In a better world, citizens would be entitled to sieze their utilities when they're no longer provided.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

A Berkshire Hathaway company. Thanks Warren.

[–] neutronbumblebee@mander.xyz 12 points 2 hours ago

Article deleted but this covers the same https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/energy-supplier-abandons-lake-tahoe-residents-to-serve-data-centers/

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

We should ask Claude how to solve this. /s