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From: Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Residents Of =?utf-8?B?8J+HuvCfh7g=?= Lake Tahoe Losing Their Electricity Supplier To AI
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 09:42:56 +0100
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> From the “only in the USA” file: an electricity supply company has
> decided that it is not profitable enough to continue serving any
> residential customers at all, and is abandoning all of its ones so it
> can concentrate entirely on feeding the much more profitable AI-server
> market
> <https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/energy-supplier-abandons-lake-tahoe-residents-to-serve-data-centers/>.

Capitalism is working exactly as intended.