In short: Paired with Constellation as the safer, profitable reactor-fleet utility way to play nuclear — and likewise on Citi's list of the most "crowded" utility stocks.
NRG is paired with Constellation as a large, profitable power producer with nuclear exposure — the lower-risk way to benefit from demand for always-on electricity. Same caveat: Citi counts it among the most crowded utility stocks, so the safety is partly priced in.
In short: The second named power-plant owner hurt by governors slowing or stopping new data-center construction "from New York to Texas." The implicit contrast Byrd draws is with the miners: the plant owner needs the new project to be approved to sell into it; the miner already sits behind an existing interconnection.
NRG is the second power-plant owner named as hurt by the slowdown, for the identical reason: its data-center growth story requires new data centers to be built, and governors from New York to Texas have started refusing or deferring them.
Held next to the miners, it makes the structural point of the article clean. Two companies can both be "AI power" and be on opposite sides of the same rule. The one that needs a new project approved loses; the one that already has the connection and can rent it out gains, because the approval freeze is a supply cut on its competition.
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