To me that sounds like nearly 50,000 people that have good reason to go burn down data centers.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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Americans still learning that their nation is a business.
You'll own nothing and you'll be happy apparently
Isn’t their town not incorporated because they wanted to save money on taxes?
Yeah I'm confused here. Seems like the local utility was supposed to have started figuring this by 2015 but they didn't do anything so NV agreed to another 5 years. Then nothing was done so they agreed to 5 more years. Nothing done locally again and now NV are going to oblige with their contract. 17 years is a long time to do nothing then blame the other guy
NV Energy sold its California electric assets to Liberty in 2009 and agreed to keep supplying power temporarily. That arrangement was extended in 2015, again in 2020, and once more in late 2025, and each time because Liberty had not yet secured an independent supply
I have learned recently that historically the time gap between missing 9 meals and cannibalism is way fucking closer than we think. Just pray that people don't go hungry, everything falls apart very fast.
What is the take away from that article supposed to be? Less wheat, more soybeans?
Solution is bottle of vodka, styrofoam and a rug.
That's not going to do anything against a data center.
Aim for transformers and the machinery on the roof. Anything with pipes or fans or junction boxes. Steel core rounds if you can get em.
What is wrong with Americans? Why do they tolerate this?
For an intolerant people, they're surprisingly tolerant of their own abuse.
We don't, but nothing we do matters, so it happens anyway
That's actually a lot of crazy shit going on right now that the media keeps ignoring.
It is mattering.
It kind of looks like their politicians don't give a crap what the little people think. Likely money involved, I'd wager.
It's what they voted for. Leopards are getting full of faces all across America.
Can confirm I certainly did not vote for this shit
As an American, I think about this graph way too often:
Basically, yeah. Ideally, as public support rises, the pass rate would also rise. And inversely, as support drops, the pass rate would also drop. That flat ~30% pass rate regardless of public support means that the bottom 90% literally isn’t represented at all. Their needs and wishes literally are not factored into the bill’s chances of passing at all. Meanwhile, the wealthy have an extreme amount of influence on whether or not a bill will pass.
Because any public attempt of resistance is going to be met with violence. Our government has stated they plan to conduct drone warfare on us. Don't get me wrong, personally I know what happens when there's no resistance (they'll just kill you anyway) but for the majority it's usually a combination of distance (this place is huge), poverty and not wanting to be canon fodder for something they likely had nothing to do with.
Remember guys, the US is 3000 miles wide. That's 3 days of straight driving one side to the other. 5 if you sleep.
BUT whilst Tahoe is 5 days away from the capital of the country, it's only 3 hours from the capital of California. Also let's not forget Lake Tahoe is the land of the lesser rich. Even a shack is worth 3 mil up there
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have you seen who they vote for? this is what they want
If the voting system trends towards two bad options which both get worse every year, how much does their vote reflect what they really want?
If they choose the worst option it's a signal they want to keep moving in that direction!
Only a tiny portion of people are actually psychopaths who would knowingly choose the worst option for everyone.
And thanks to gerrymandering that minority gets it's way half the time
I don't care how good someone thinks they are - eventually they will fall to temptation and fail to resist the bad incentives placed on them by a system.
If a government is elected under a winner-take-all (first-past-the-post) voting system then there is no incentive to change that system to solve gerrymandering (also the spoiler effect and misrepresentation error). I hope it is possible for an newly elected party to quickly implement a representative voting system after winning on an unrepresentative one.
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thanks for letting us know you have absolutely no understanding of the american election system.
confidently, too.
i'm just a temporarily embarrassed billionaire when i get rich i don't want to pay taxes
Too busy scrolling social media filled with rage bait and propaganda
We don't have any actual representative democracy, due to all our extreme mobility. Cars have killed us. I've lived in so many of the U.S. States and it's just crashingly laughingly suck.
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If this comes to pass .... time to destroy the grid, at least near the data center.
Vote for Trump... Get fucked by his buddies.
Burn coal, Serfs! Your techlords demand your resources.
How much mega corporations and the government give a fuck about people is becoming visceral these days.
There's an active agenda to simply exterminate humanity, replace us with machines, and there is no resistance.
It's almost like the corps are controlled by machines already!!
They were the original paperclip maximizers, each human does their own logic, no need for real AI.
California needs to be self sufficient.
Cascadia is the answer.
California needs to be self sufficient - so we need the resources of our northern states as well
Grow better crops instead of water-demanding cash crops like almonds and pistachios. The region could 100% sustain itself if it wasn't propping up the rest of the country.
That won't happen with its environmental laws unless solar takes over completely.
Hard to tell from the article how likely this is to happen. Their legal situation is very complicated and it sounds like they are still trying to figure out what can and cannot be done.
Supremely Court Ruling: The data center is supposed to open in one month, its not enough time to properly halt this plan now, so we rule in favor of the data center and electricity provider. Go find power elsewhere for your homes.
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