December 20, 2025 — Data center stocks have become one of the market’s most crowded (and consequential) intersections: artificial intelligence demand on one side, and real-world constraints—power, land, permitting, and financing—on the other. The investment story isn’t just about more GPUs and bigger server halls. It’s increasingly about who can secure megawatts, finance the build, and turn capex into durable cash flow. This weekend’s headlines sharpen that tension. Regulators in Georgia approved a massive electricity-generation expansion to serve data centers. In the Mid-Atlantic, federal regulators pushed PJM to clarify rules for AI-driven large loads—especially when they’re colocated near power plants.