{"id":240312,"date":"2026-07-04T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/ai-is-driving-utilities-to-spend-a-record-240-billion-in-2026-buy-these-stocks-to-capitalize-on-the-power-surge\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:55:10","slug":"ai-is-driving-utilities-to-spend-a-record-240-billion-in-2026-buy-these-stocks-to-capitalize-on-the-power-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/ai-is-driving-utilities-to-spend-a-record-240-billion-in-2026-buy-these-stocks-to-capitalize-on-the-power-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is Driving Utilities to Spend a Record $240 Billion in 2026. Buy These Stocks to Capitalize on the Power Surge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/BE\/pressreleases\/3128199\/ai-is-driving-utilities-to-spend-a-record-240-billion-in-2026-buy-these-stocks-to-capitalize-on-the-power-surge\/\">AI is Driving Utilities to Spend a Record $240 Billion in 2026. Buy These Stocks to Capitalize on the Power Surge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/BE\/pressreleases\/3128199\/ai-is-driving-utilities-to-spend-a-record-240-billion-in-2026-buy-these-stocks-to-capitalize-on-the-power-surge\/\">https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/BE\/pressreleases\/3128199\/ai-is-driving-utilities-to-spend-a-record-240-billion-in-2026-buy-these-stocks-to-capitalize-on-the-power-surge\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-04 12:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theglobeandmail.com\">www.theglobeandmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AI Power Demand<\/strong>: Utilities are expected to spend up to $240 billion by 2026 to meet the anticipated surge in power demand driven by artificial intelligence (AI). <\/li>\n<li><strong>Rising Power Prices<\/strong>: The increased demand is pushing up electricity prices, leading to resistance against AI data centers amid already high and rising consumer costs. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Alternative Power Solutions<\/strong>: Companies able to supply power outside traditional grid infrastructures, like Bloom Energy, could benefit significantly from the growing AI demand. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Company Performance and Valuations<\/strong>: Bloom Energy has a strong backlog and potential AI market presence but is overvalued; alternative options like Brookfield Renewable Partners and NextEra Energy offer more reasonable valuations and higher dividend yields.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is Driving Utilities to Spend a Record $240 Billion in 2026. Buy These Stocks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/barchart-news-media-prod.aws.barchart.com\/FC\/82b2cca571c11a2e0d79b5ab043236b4\/%3Furl%3Dhttps%253a%252f%252fg.foolcdn.com%252feditorial%252fimages%252f875818%252f25_10_15-a-light-bulb-with-the-letters-ai-inside-of-it-and-graphics-around-it-_gettyimages-2221494319-1201x800-5b2df79.jpg%26amp%3Bw%3D700","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-240312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240314,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240312\/revisions\/240314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}