NextEra Energy, Google Cloud expand deal to add US capacity

Dec 8 (Reuters) – NextEra Energy said on Monday it has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to scale up data center capacity by multiple gigawatts and boost energy infrastructure across the U.S.

Shares of the company were up 2.3% in premarket trading.

The deal comes as U.S. electricity demand grows due to rapid AI adoption, prompting cloud companies and utilities to secure land, grid connections and new generation to support large data center loads.

(Reporting by Vallari Srivastava in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid and Shinjini Ganguli)