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A $67B utility merger forms a colossus across the datacenter belt

development2026-05-18

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NextEra Energy agreed to buy Dominion for $67 billion, the biggest power deal ever, forming a colossus across Virginia's datacenter belt, while Tesla dropped its solar roof tiles for plain panels.

Reported metric: $67B

Reporting date: 2026-05-18 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 18, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A utility moves to redirect three quarters of a region's power to datacenters

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A $67B utility merger forms a colossus across the datacenter belt
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-05-18
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-18-the-biggest-power-deal-ever
Claim: NextEra Energy agreed to buy Dominion for $67 billion, the biggest power deal ever, forming a colossus across Virginia's datacenter belt, while Tesla dropped its solar roof tiles for plain panels.
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- Welcome to May 18, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-18-2026
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