Blackrock Says Buy Ai Energy Stocks Over Big Tech In 2026…

By James Brumley – Mar 4, 2026 at 5:21AM EST

Key Points

Bloom Energy is one of the few names in the hydrogen fuel cell space that’s profitable.
Constellation Energy’s restart of a nuclear power plant at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island is part of a much bigger trend.
GE Vernova has far more future revenue already lined up than it booked for the entirety of 2025.

The only problem? It can take years to design and install a small-scale nuclear power plant. No such reactors have been deployed commercially in the U.S. yet. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence data centers need power now. Bloom Energy (BE 7.93%) offers something of a stopgap option — though it could also serve as a permanent solution for data centers.

Bloom Energy Stock Quote

NYSE: BE

Bloom Energy

Today’s Change

(-7.93%) $-13.16

Current Price

$152.84

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$43B

Day’s Range

$147.68 – $158.30

52wk Range

$15.15 – $180.90

Volume

433K

Avg Vol

12M

Gross Margin

30.89%

Bloom Energy’s bread-and-butter business is onsite electricity production using hydrogen fuel cells. At one point, this technology was prohibitively expensive and logistically complicated. But as its cost has come down and availability has gone up, Bloom is proving that its clean alternative energy solutions are viable, particularly as site-specific options. Last quarter, it did $778 million worth of business, up 36% year over year, as institutions clamored for cost-effective and immediate answers to their power needs.

Analysts expect Bloom’s growth pace to accelerate this year, too. Precedence Research forecasts that the broader solid oxide fuel cell industry will grow at an average annualized pace of nearly 27% through 2034, as this technology becomes more mainstream.

The kicker: Bloom Energy is profitable — and it’s one of the few names in the hydrogen fuel cell business that is. While this stock is outrageously expensive at more than 100 times this year’s projected profit of $1.39 per , this bottom line is expected to more than double next year on a second consecutive year of revenue growth in excess of 50%.

While the stock’s lofty valuation has been an understandable near-term concern for some investors, any decent dip would arguably be a buying opportunity for a company that’s on course to grow into its premium soon enough.

Constellation Energy

You may be more familiar with Constellation Energy (CEG 0.67%) than you think. The company that’s working to restart one of the mothballed nuclear reactors at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island? That’s Constellation.

The noteworthy part of the story, however, is why it’s doing so. That reactor is being brought back into service to provide electricity for one of Microsoft‘s nearby AI data centers.

That’s still just a sampling of the much bigger investor takeaway from this decision. Mostly, this restart underscores that nuclear power — once deemed too dangerous as well as environmentally problematic — is actually back in vogue. The U.S. Department of Energy expects the nation to quadruple its nuclear power output between now and 2050.

Steam spewing from a power plant's cooling towers.

Image source: Getty Images.

More to the point for interested investors, if any one utility company is positioned to capitalize on nuclear’s resurgence, it’s Constellation Energy. It’s already the U.S.’s leading name in nuclear power, with more than two-thirds of the electricity it produces ultimately being generated by nuclear fission. In fact, its nuclear power output is greater than the rest of the country’s utility companies combined.

Given all this, it wouldn’t be surprising if this particular utility stock performed a growth stock rather than a value stock for the next several years. Analysts seem to somewhat expect it: Their average price target of $392.89 is more than 25% above the ticker’s present price, and that’s just a one-year target.

GE Vernova

Last but not least, add GE Vernova (GEV 4.46%) to your list of AI energy stocks to buy sooner rather than later.

Yes, this is one of the three spinoffs of General Electric, which began breaking itself up into more focused operations in 2022. GE Vernova is the former industrial titan’s power production arm, selling natural gas turbines, hydropower equipment, nuclear reactors, wind turbines, and the , as well as electrification solutions grid optimization and energy storage.

GE Vernova Stock Quote

NYSE: GEV

GE Vernova

Today’s Change

(-4.46%) $-39.32

Current Price

$841.86

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$227B

Day’s Range

$811.80 – $860.61

52wk Range

$252.25 – $894.93

Volume

149K

Avg Vol

3.2M

Gross Margin

20.28%

Dividend Yield

0.15%

There’s nothing AI-specific about any of it. However, since the ongoing proliferation of artificial intelligence data centers is straining power grids in the U.S. and elsewhere, there’s no denying that GE Vernova is at least indirectly benefiting from the dynamic behind the opportunity that BlackRock is touting.

The numbers bear this argument out. While GE Vernova’s 2025 revenue of $38.1 billion was only 9% better than 2024’s top line, total orders raced 34% higher to $59.3 billion, pumping the company’s backlog up by $31.2 billion to a whopping $150 billion. That’s roughly four years’ worth of business lined up just waiting to be fulfilled. More deals will certainly be added in the meantime.

The only real concern here is GE Vernova’s capacity to manufacture and deliver its heavy equipment fast enough. Of course, that’s not exactly a bearish problem for the stock, particularly given that the company is wisely investing $600 million in factories and facilities over the next couple of years.