Xcel Energy: A Potential AI Data-Center Play With A Wildfire Overhang

2025-07-17 05:48:16 ET

Minnesota-based Xcel Energy ( XEL ) is a nearly $40 billion market-cap diversified utility company that serves 3.9 million electric customers and 2.2 million natural gas customers across eight states. XEL stock yields 3.34% (roughly 50 basis points higher than the broad utility sector). As you know, the utility sector is making headlines on a near daily basis because it is on the front-line of delivering electric power to serve fast-growing demand from the AI data center boom. Today, I'll take a look at Xcel Energy to see if it might make a good way to generate strong total returns for investors going forward. I'll start by noting that XEL has outperformed the SPDR Utilities Fund ( XLU ) by almost 15% over the past decade:

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