April 15, 2026
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Build Your Own Power Plant or Lose Your Place in Line
Duke Energy leads at $103 billion, followed by NextEra at $94 billion and Southern Company at $81 billion.
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Southern Company
Southern Company operates significant electricity generation and transmission infrastructure across the Southeast, including natural gas and coal facilities that serve data center regions, though it does not have major direct operations in Texas.
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March 19, 2026
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Communities Aren't Anti-Datacenter. They're Anti-Surprise.
A structural conflict amplifies the risk: Southern Company holds co-ownership stakes in proposed gas infrastructure, including the SSE4 methane pipeline, creating incentive to overestimate demand across multiple revenue streams while ratepayers absorb the cost.
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