In the shadows of Arizona’s data centre boom, thousands live without power

Pylons loom over Gayle Payton's home on the Navajo reservation but it would cost her tens of thousands of dollars – money she doesn't have – to get the electricity connected.

The Washington Post

Sun, 29 Dec 2024

By Pranshu Verma,with photography by Adriana Zehbrauskas for the Washington Post Living on one of the largest swathes of land in America without electric power, Thomasina Nez’s entire life is a scramble to complete basic tasks.To take a hot shower, she must wait for buckets of water to come to a boil on a small propane stove outside her wood-framed roundhouse in Cameron, Arizona. To make meals, she relies mostly on canned goods because unrefrigerated produce rots quickly in the Arizona heat. It’s a struggle to stay wa...

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