Yahoo Finance highlights Southern Company (SO), Duke Energy (DUK), and American Electric Power (AEP) as utility dividend stocks that provide more concentrated exposure to AI-driven demand compared to the Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU). Southern Company recently signed a 3.2 gigawatt, 25-year contract with OpenAI, with its data center usage up 55% year-over-year. Duke Energy is deploying over $1 billion monthly in regulated capital and has signed 7.8 gigawatts in data-center agreements. American Electric Power's $78 billion five-year capital plan targets 69 gigawatts of contracted load additions through 2030.