Artificial intelligence demands staggering amounts of electricity. A single advanced data center can draw as much power as hundreds of thousands of homes. Yet the real story sits not in the flashy GPU clusters but in the steady baseload sources keeping the lights on. Nuclear energy has reemerged as the unexpected anchor for this surge. Tech giants are signing deals worth tens of billions to secure it. And utilities with existing atomic plants find themselves in an enviable spot. NextEra Energy stands out in this shift. The Motley Fool highlighted the company as an AI infrastructure play hiding in plain sight. As the largest utility in the U.S., NextEra operates a regulated electric business in Florida and a massive contract power arm focused on renewables. Its executives forecast energy demand will jump 60% from 2025 to 2045. That dwarfs the 10% growth seen from 2005 to 2025. The stock offers a 2.8% dividend yield. Management recently trimmed its dividend growth target to around 6% annually.…