Lake Tahoe residents are the latest community to fight back against AI data centers after thousands of people have been told their power could be cut off to supply new projects. Nevada -based NV Energy will stop providing 75 percent of Liberty Utilities’ electricity for the California side of Lake Tahoe by May 2027, affecting about 49,000 customers to meet growing demand from AI-driven data centers in Nevada, Fortune reports. “It’s like we don’t exist,” Danielle Hughes, a North Lake Tahoe resident, CEO of the nonprofit Tahoe Spark and a supervisor within the California Energy Commission’s Efficiency Division, told the outlet. South Lake Tahoe Mayor Cody Bass said in an April letter to the California Public Utilities Commission that the planned cutoff has triggered “a great deal of concern” among residents and businesses worried about potential disruptions, according to SFGate . Liberty Utilities, however, has sought to reassure customers, saying the transition is part of routine energy contracting.…