Matt DiLallo, The Motley Fool
Tue, December 9, 2025 astatine 11:25 AM CST 5 min read
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Power request could surge implicit the coming years.
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NextEra Energy has go a cardinal strategical spouse for starring exertion companies successful request of much power.
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The institution plans to put heavy implicit the adjacent decennary to enactment the country's increasing powerfulness needs.
We're entering a caller aureate property successful the vigor sector. Power demand, which has barely budged implicit the past 20 years, will summation exponentially implicit the adjacent 2 decades. After rising 10% since 2005, U.S. powerfulness request could surge 58% implicit the adjacent 20 years, a six-fold summation successful the maturation rate. While AI data centers are the superior catalyst powering the request surge, they aren't the lone driver.
Few companies are in a amended position to capitalize connected this powerfulness surge than NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE). The vigor institution operates the country's largest electric utility (Florida Power & Light oregon FPL) and owns 1 of the largest vigor infrastructure improvement companies (NextEra Energy Resources). These starring platforms volition assistance powerfulness supercharged net maturation for the institution implicit the adjacent decade.
NextEra Energy's immense standard and expertise successful the vigor assemblage person made it the spouse of prime for exertion companies seeking to powerfulness to thrust their AI ambitions forward. A fewer weeks ago, NextEra announced a caller collaboration with Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google to accelerate the improvement of nuclear energy successful the U.S. As portion of the deal, Google signed a 25-year powerfulness acquisition statement (PPA) to enactment the restart of NextEra's Duane Arnold Energy Center, which it volition bring backmost online by 2029.
NextEra and Google are gathering connected their long-standing concern done a landmark strategical vigor and exertion concern to accelerate AI growth. NextEra and Google volition spouse connected aggregate sites crossed the U.S. to physique large-scale information halfway campuses and vigor infrastructure. They're presently processing the archetypal 3 campuses and program to physique much successful the future.
Meanwhile, NextEra Energy besides precocious strengthened its concern with Meta Platforms. The tech titan is signing 11 PPAs and 2 vigor retention agreements totaling 2.5 gigawatts of cleanable energy. NextEra volition build respective solar energy projects to enactment Meta's growing powerfulness demands.
Those caller agreements with immoderate of the world's starring exertion companies are lone the extremity of the proverbial iceberg. NextEra Energy has aggregate ways to turn beyond supporting the astir insatiable powerfulness needs of the world's tech titans.

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