(Bloomberg) — A knowledge heart constructing growth throughout the US will increase the quantity of electrical energy American Electrical Energy Co. plans to provide by 15 gigawatts — the output of 15 nuclear reactors — by 2030, firm executives mentioned Tuesday.

The extra energy is the same as 42% of the AEP’s present peak load and comes as utilities worldwide battle to provide new information facilities, which require giant quantities of electrical energy to run complicated synthetic intelligence operations. Electrified factories and battery-powered vehicles are additionally including to the largest development in electrical energy demand utilities have seen in a era.

Many of the new information facilities AEP will provide can be positioned in Ohio and Texas, executives mentioned Tuesday on an earnings name. The corporate has mentioned in useful resource plans that it’s going to add about 20 gigawatts of recent energy era by 2033, together with about 8 gigawatts of wind, 6 gigawatts of photo voltaic and 5 gigawatts of pure gasoline.