New Delhi, July 30 -- NEW YORK - The companies building artificial intelligence have not been building its power supply. That is about to change, and not through the hyperscalers.

NextEra Energy Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. announced Wednesday a commitment to develop a data center campus with a total capital value of $100 billion, a figure that would make it the largest single AI infrastructure pledge announced by any entity outside the technology sector. For an industry whose hardware ambitions have long outpaced its ability to secure reliable electricity, the announcement marks the moment the energy infrastructure layer of the AI economy was formally claimed by a Florida utility and a Canadian asset manager rather than by ...