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Southern Co. Electricity Sales Soar On 42% Data Center Growth By Diana DiGangi of UtilityDive, The company has 28 large load projects representing 11 GW under contract, and Georgia Power’s first-quarter capital expenditures increased year over year from $1.6 billion to $2 billion. Southern Company reported 2.3% year-over-year growth in retail electricity sales across its utilities for the first quarter of this year, driven predominantly by data centers. Overall, data centers used 42% more power compared to the first quarter of 2025, according to company officials and Southern’s quarterly report to the Securities and Exchange...

Anthropic Eyes $30B Raise At $900B Valuation As UBS Says Claude Is "Gaining Ground" AI is still where the money is flowing... A Bloomberg report late Tuesday revealed that Anthropic, the maker of Claude, is in early discussions with investors to raise at least $30 billion at an eye-popping valuation of nearly $900 billion. Clearly, this could become the largest funding round to date for founder Dario Amodei. The Claude maker is in discussions to raise the new capital at a valuation of more than $900 billion, not including the investment, said...