> Data centers have driven requests to triple the company's peak capacity, NV Energy's director said... "These are unprecedented times,"... "we are excited to serve this load" but "we cannot impact our existing customer base."
Isn't Liberty Utilities one of their existing customers? Which is now being denied power in order to serve those new and "exciting" data centers?
Who is going to pay for the tripling of capacity? All ratepayers, of course.
Who is going to benefit from the new capacity? Only the data centers, of course.
Socialize the capital expenditures and privatize profits - how come the media is completely silent about it?
> It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand.
Unprecedented, sure, but not unpredictable. I live close to Tahoe and the data centers mentioned are ones not far from me. They keep popping up and it’s pretty obvious at this point that there has to be better planning for how they’ll get power for increased demand related to AI. Like what could it look like to force data centers to produce and store an equivalent amount of energy to their demand elsewhere in the grid to offset their impact?
> Data centers have driven requests to triple the company's peak capacity, NV Energy's director said... "These are unprecedented times,"... "we are excited to serve this load" but "we cannot impact our existing customer base."
Isn't Liberty Utilities one of their existing customers? Which is now being denied power in order to serve those new and "exciting" data centers?
Who is going to pay for the tripling of capacity? All ratepayers, of course.
Who is going to benefit from the new capacity? Only the data centers, of course.
Socialize the capital expenditures and privatize profits - how come the media is completely silent about it?
> It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand.
Unprecedented, sure, but not unpredictable. I live close to Tahoe and the data centers mentioned are ones not far from me. They keep popping up and it’s pretty obvious at this point that there has to be better planning for how they’ll get power for increased demand related to AI. Like what could it look like to force data centers to produce and store an equivalent amount of energy to their demand elsewhere in the grid to offset their impact?
Why did Liberty get the notice and not the data centers?
Presumably NV Energy values having the data centers as customers more than they value Liberty Utilities.
Liberty Utilities serve households and individuals, data centers serve big biz - priority-wise it's the new normal.
When it comes to paying for new capacity however, the priories are suddenly reversed, as I explained in another, top-level comment.