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Energy and power

Everything above runs on electricity, and power is now the hardest bottleneck. Data centre electricity use rose 17% in 2025 and could double by 2030.

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2
Companies
21
Money flows
6

Power for data centres

Generating and delivering the electricity data centres need: grid connections, on-site gas, nuclear and batteries.

Full area: openings, flows, sceptic
Bloom Energy
BE Supplier

fuel cells that power a site without the grid

Revenue of $1.065B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Oklo
OKLO

small nuclear reactor developer

Q2 2026 revenue of $1.2M, mostly from recent acquisitions

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GE Vernova
GEV Supplier

gas turbines and grid equipment

$176B order backlog. Data centre orders over $5B in the first half of 2026

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Siemens Energy
ENR Supplier

Makes gas turbines, grid equipment and transformers that power data centres and utilities.

Q3 FY2026 revenue of about EUR 11.4B (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Caterpillar
CAT Supplier

Makes large generator sets and turbines that run data centres when the grid is not enough.

Record sales of $20.5B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Constellation Energy
CEG

nuclear operator

Revenue of $7.5B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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NuScale Power
SMR

Designs small modular nuclear reactors, with a partner pursuing a large plan with the US Tennessee Valley Authority.

Q2 2026 revenue of about $0.1M (reported)

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Talen Energy
TLN

Owns nuclear and gas power plants and sells power to large buyers, including data centres.

Adjusted EBITDA of $374M in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Venture Global
VG Supplier

gas exporter building power plants at its terminals to sell to data centres

Plan could power up to 10 GW of computing (WSJ, Oct 2026)

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Vistra
VST

Owns large gas and nuclear power plants and sells the electricity under long contracts.

Ongoing operations adjusted EBITDA of $1.77B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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NRG Energy
NRG

Sells electricity to homes and businesses and is building power plants to serve data centres.

Adjusted EBITDA of $1.22B in Q2 2026, up from $909M a year earlier

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Getting connected to the grid

The wait to plug a new data centre into the grid: queues, studies, transformers and the startups trying to shorten it.

Full area: openings, flows, sceptic
Emerald AI
Supplier

software that throttles AI workloads when the grid is stressed

$150M at a $1.05B valuation (Aug 2026). Nvidia, Siemens and GE Vernova invested

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Intersect Power

builds data centres next to its own power

Bought by Alphabet for $4.75B (closed Mar 2026)

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Eaton
ETN Supplier

Makes switchgear, transformers and power distribution equipment that sit between the grid and the server hall.

Record revenue of $8.5B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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GE Vernova
GEV Supplier

Makes grid equipment and gas turbines, and its electrification arm supplies transformers and switchgear.

$176B order backlog. Data centre orders over $5B in the first half of 2026

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Quanta Services
PWR Supplier

Builds the transmission lines, substations and power connections that bring new electricity to data centres.

Revenue of about $9.6B in Q2 2026 (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Schneider Electric
SU Supplier

Makes power, cooling and control equipment for data centres and grids.

H1 2026 revenue of EUR 21.2B (six months to June 2026)

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Siemens Energy
ENR Supplier

Makes grid equipment, transformers and gas turbines used to connect and power data centres.

Q3 FY2026 revenue of about EUR 11.4B (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Heron Power
Supplier

solid-state transformers, faster to make than the old iron kind

$140M Series B led by a16z and Breakthrough Energy (Feb 2026)

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Nira Energy
Supplier

shows developers where the grid has spare capacity

Reportedly profitable with 100+ developer customers

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Pearl Street
Supplier

automated the engineering studies for connection requests

Bought by Enverus (Mar 2025), which Blackstone is buying

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Prysmian
PRY Supplier

Makes power cables and optical fibre cables that link new power plants and data centres.

Q2 2026 revenue of EUR 6.02B (quarter to 30 June 2026)

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Hitachi Energy
Supplier

Power grid unit of Hitachi that makes large transformers, which are a key bottleneck for new connections.

US factory investment of about $1.5B across new plants (2025 to 2026 announcements)

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The map updates three times a week.

241 companies across 25 areas, 62 money flows and 89 openings so far. New research lands every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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