Southern Company CEO Chris Womack on AI, power demand and affordability

Chris Womack is chairman, president and CEO of Southern Company, one of the largest investor-owned, regulated utility holding companies in the US. Its electric and gas subsidiaries serve more than 9 million customers in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi and Tennessee. In this episode, co-host Dan Testa sits down with Womack to discuss the many issues facing the US power industry, including how utility capital spending impacts affordability, federal loan guarantees, coal-fired power plant extensions, as well as rising power demand forecasts driven by data centers and AI.

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Southern Company CEO Chris Womack on AI, power demand and affordability is an episode from Platts Future Energy by S&P Global Commodity Insights.

This episode is 22:37 long.

This episode was published on Apr 28, 2026.

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