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50,000 People in Lake Tahoe Were Told to Find a New Power Source As AI Data Centers Expand

Bill Gates, BlackRock and Vanguard are buying up water rights everywhere. The power company informed 50,000 residents of Lake Tahoe that they would no longer receive electricity since it will be transferred to the town’s new data centers.

Do you still believe this won’t have an impact on you? That it won’t eventually find its way into your community? Liberty Utilities, the small California firm that serves Lake Tahoe, was informed by NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has provided the majority of the city’s electricity for decades, that it will cease to do so after May 2027.

Imagine being informed that since AI data centers require that energy, your electric company would no longer be able to service you. Residents, local companies, ski resorts, and entire neighborhoods are already questioning what will happen when the energy system they have always relied on is abruptly rebuilt around Ungodly artificial intelligence technology.

Frank, this narrative totally dispels people’s preconceived notions about AI. When most people hear the word “AI,” they picture amusing pictures, ChatGPT, apps, productivity tools, or some robot assisting children with their schoolwork. The actual machine behind it all is what they fail to envision. The never-ending warehouse buildings are filled with servers that work around the clock. industrial plant-sized cooling systems. new infrastructure for transmission. huge demand for power. enormous demand for water.

And that equipment is now in competition with Tahoe.

Silently, Northern Nevada has become one of the nation’s largest hubs for AI infrastructure. Near the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, a number of tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others, have been rapidly growing. About 22% of Nevada’s electricity was already used by data centers last year, and estimates indicate that percentage will rise quickly.

According to one estimate, by 2033, just 12 data center projects in Northern Nevada would need electricity equivalent to nearly three Hoover Dams. Three Hoover Dams—just to maintain servers.
People should be truly alarmed by that. Technology is no longer the only factor in this. It has to do with resources. resources required for human survival.

Every AI image created for amusement, every chatbot request, every video, and every automated search result is linked to this massive infrastructural development taking place in the background. Additionally, these businesses require more power as AI grows. More land. More chill. additional transmission lines. increased output of energy.  Video

And then there’s the water problem, which hardly anyone acknowledges.

Water Consumption and AI

These facilities run insanely hot, so most of them use industrial cooling systems that consume huge amounts of freshwater. Generating a simple AI-written email can use the equivalent of a bottle of water depending on where the servers are located.

Now look at where all these facilities are being built: Nevada. Arizona. Texas. Utah.

Some of the driest parts of the country.

Credit: Stanford University

At the exact same time reservoirs are shrinking, droughts are getting worse, and wildfire seasons keep intensifying. These states are becoming AI infrastructure hubs because the land is cheap and corporations can build there fast.

That’s the part nobody wants to say out loud: the AI race, which is really just the construction of a global surveillance state, is crashing directly into an environmental crisis that was already spiraling out of control.

Even though we have communities in the U.S. who don’t have access to clean water, and even though the situation is far worse globally, the billionaires still chose to introduce AI.

And for every ChapGPT prompt you type, it takes up to 15 bottles of water to cool down those data centers. The billionaires launched this technology knowing that it would accelerate a climate catastrophe, in an already existing climate crisis, and then they shoved it into every part of our society so nobody could realistically avoid participating in it.

Corporations Buying Water Rights

To make matters even worse, corporations and people like Bill Gates, are secretly buying water rights all throughout the United States and the entire world. Nestle, Coca-Cola, and Veolia control lakes, rivers, and aquifers. Wall Street banks like J.P. Morgan treat water rights as “investments.” Bill Gates and Alex Karp buy land that gives them control of underground water sources.

Blackrock and Vanguard quietly sit at the top, owning shares in all of them. So the world is running out of water, the power grid is already being strained, and now entire towns like Lake Tahoe are being told they may lose electricity because AI data centers need it more.At the exact same time, billionaires and corporations are quietly buying up water rights, farmland, reservoirs, underground aquifers, and infrastructure all over the United States.. but I’m sure we have nothing to worry about.