Dominion Energy与NextEra Energy $670亿合并获股东压倒性批准，但弗吉尼亚州政治阻力加大监管不确定性

Shareholders of Dominion Energy ( D ) and NextEra Energy ( NEE ) overwhelmingly approved the companies' proposed $67B merger ​deal, according to 8-K filings on Thursday ( I , II ). The deal, which is pending ​regulatory approvals, would create one of the world's largest electric utilities with an enterprise value topping the next two largest U.S. ​power companies combined. But the successful completion of the merger is far from a certainty, as growing numbers of Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence, and Virginia-based ​Dominion ( D ) serves the world's largest concentration of data centers. Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger said in August she would intervene in the regulatory review of the merger and formally ⁠become a party to the case before the Virginia State Corporation Commission, providing her with access to filings and the ​ability to raise questions and concerns about the transaction. Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Don Scott this week sent his concerns about the deal in a letter to the SCC. "If this merger is not built around affordability for Virginians, then it should not go through," Scott wrote. "That is my starting point, and it should frame every question this Commission asks over the coming months." Data c enters should "cover the full cost of the generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure required to serve them," Scott also said.