{"id":470058,"date":"2026-02-12T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470058\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:11:11","slug":"this-home-generator-maker-is-shifting-focus-to-ai-data-centers-and-the-stock-is-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470058\/","title":{"rendered":"This home-generator maker is shifting focus to AI data centers, and the stock is soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Updated: Feb. 11, 2026 at 4:15\u202fp.m. ET<br \/>First Published: Feb. 11, 2026 at 12:29\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">Shares of Generac Holdings shot up toward a multiyear high on Wednesday, after the maker of home generators provided an upbeat sales-growth outlook as the company\u2019s push into the data-center market accelerates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">The apparent shift in focus toward the company\u2019s <a data-type=\"phrase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/stock\/gnrc\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GNRC<\/a> commercial and industrial business, which builds large backup generators used by data centers that power artificial-intelligence applications, comes as its residential business is hurting due to \u201ccontinued weakness\u201d in power-outage activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Updated: Feb. 11, 2026 at 4:15\u202fp.m. ETFirst Published: Feb. 11, 2026 at 12:29\u202fp.m. ET Shares of Generac&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[27323,62,191425,276,96131,96135,277,184433,45,168153,137183,137184,49,48,168163,33563,171825,168152,141530,168162,136637,24958,3525,125498,9564,168154,14022,27324,191422,92150,16326,63403,136639,106303,52391,191423,2841,191424,150454,191421,159563,106304,796,36563,1688,15469,96136,1378,29493,7074,137194,137182,31654,61],"class_list":["post-470058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-accidents","tag-ai","tag-air-treatment-equipment","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-blackouts","tag-business","tag-business-consumer-services","tag-ce-exclusion-filter","tag-ce-industry-news-filter","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-colocation-services","tag-commodity","tag-commodity-financial-market-news","tag-computer-services","tag-consumer-products","tag-consumer-services","tag-content-types","tag-cooling","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-data-centers","tag-data-centers-colocation-services","tag-data-services","tag-disasters","tag-disasters-accidents","tag-disruptions","tag-earnings","tag-equity-markets","tag-factiva-filters","tag-financial-market-news","tag-financial-performance","tag-generac-holdings-inc","tag-general-news","tag-gnrc","tag-heating","tag-heating-cooling-air-treatment-equipment","tag-industrial-goods","tag-industrial-news","tag-machine-learning","tag-machinery","tag-manufacturing","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-sp-500-index","tag-sales-figures","tag-services","tag-share-price-movement","tag-share-price-movement-disruptions","tag-spx","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}