The proposed $67 billion all-stock combination of NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy creates the largest regulated U.S. utility by customer base and generation capacity, directly addressing the surge in electricity demand from hyperscale data centers projected to consume an increasing share of East Coast load. Primary Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order 1920 on transmission planning and the Department of Energy's 2024 report on data center electricity consumption both underscore the need for coordinated interstate infrastructure to accommodate large-load additions, yet neither document anticipates the scale of utility consolidation now underway. Multiple perspectives emerge: state regulators in Virginia and Florida emphasize consumer bill stability and local siting authority, while federal agencies prioritize national competitiveness in AI infrastructure relative to Chinese state-backed compute expansion. The original Zerohedge framing understates the role of the Inflation Reduction Act's transmission incentives and the CHIPS and Science Act's indirect power requirements, which together create capital-deployment pathways not fully captured in the merger's efficiency narrative. Evidence from FERC's 2023-2024 annual reliability assessments shows rising reserve-margin pressures in PJM Interconnection coinciding with data-center interconnection queues, a pattern the merger seeks to internalize through combined balance-sheet capacity rather than incremental rate-base additions. This transaction therefore tests whether scale-driven cost reductions can satisfy both affordability mandates and the policy imperative to accelerate permitting for AI-enabling generation and transmission assets.