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Big Tech invades Nevada's power grid (and desert)

Data Center Watch; Trump Ticker; Messing with Maps

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Sep 23, 2025
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🤖 Data Center Watch 👾

Last week, Jeff Brigger, an executive with NV Energy, Nevada’s largest utility — and a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary — told a gathering in Las Vegas that tech firms are asking the utility to supply up to 22,000 megawatts of electricity to support planned data centers.

That is an insanely enormous amount of generation capacity. It’s…

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