Vanguard Group boosts Talen Energy stake to 10.4% as AI demand grows

January 8, 2025 5:52 PM EST

FILE PHOTO: The logo for Vanguard is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 1, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

(Reuters) - U.S. asset management firm Vanguard Group increased its stake in independent power producer Talen Energy Corp to 10.4%, according to a filing on Wednesday.

As Big Tech pours in billions of dollars into AI technology, the demand for electricity to feed power-hungry data centers has also grown. The main beneficiaries of this demand are utilities such as Talen Energy.

Vanguard, Talen Energy's second-largest shareholder, revealed it purchased over 4 million shares of the utility's common stock. As of October, the asset manager owned about 9.9% of its outstanding shares.

Shares of Talen Energy rose over threefold in 2024. They were marginally higher in extended trading on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Vallari Srivastava in Bengaluru; Editing by Mohammed Safi Shamsi)



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