Editor's note: In today's Chaikin PowerFeed, we're turning things over to our friend Chris Igou... Longtime readers will remember Chris. He's an editor at our corporate affiliate Stansberry Research.

Editor's note: In today's Chaikin PowerFeed, we're turning things over to our friend Chris Igou... Longtime readers will remember Chris. He's an editor at our corporate affiliate Stansberry Research.  This essay from Chris was most recently published in the April 30 edition of Stansberry's free Daily Wealth e-letter. In it, he discusses how energy demands from data centers are providing a big tailwind for a particular corner of the market... A New Role for Batteries in the AI Energy Crisis By Chris Igou, editor, Stansberry Research In 2025, data centers made up half of new electricity demand in the U.S. That's more than the residential, industrial, or transportation sectors. And data centers are only going to need more energy as AI takes off. But we can't rely on traditional fuels alone to meet AI's energy demands... Instead, batteries are going to be a major player to fill this demand gap. Battery-storage systems capture and store energy from renewable sources like solar and wind... then release the power when it's needed most. For example, developers are already leaning on lithium-ion batteries for today's cellphones and electric vehicles. In the long run, they will help make clean-energy sources like solar more reliable. But today, we're seeing another boost in battery demand. You see, it's not just clean-energy sources that need batteries. Gas-powered data centers are using them now, too. And as we'll explain, that will be a major tailwind for the battery-storage sector moving forward... Recommended Links: Ex-Hedge-Fund Trader: 'This May Be My Third $100 Million Trade' Gabe Marshank made TWO separate $100 million trades at the world's most powerful hedge funds. Both times, he did it in the same corner of the market. And now, this sector is flashing again. Gabe calls this the most urgent signal of his career and says ordinary people must move their money before June 1. For a limited time, he's sharing exactly what to do – for free. Click here now to get details on what could be his "THIRD $100 MILLION TRADE." 'I Just Flew Over Elon Musk's Next Big Venture' A former consultant to the Pentagon was able to enter the airspace near one of the most secure sites in the world. Hidden there, he says, is a potential $10 trillion tech breakthrough that could define the next decade of Elon Musk's career. Click here to learn about the stocks tied to Musk's next big venture. Until recently, battery-storage costs were extremely high relative to other energy sources... In 2015, it cost around $1,000 per megawatt-hour ("MWh"), compared with less than $200 per MWh for other energy sources like gas, coal, solar, and nuclear. Some energy sources even cost less than $100 per MWh. Back then, the cost to invest in battery storage was way too high to spark innovation.  Now, though, it has dropped below $100 per MWh. That makes it cheaper than other traditional fuels. And that cost will keep falling as tech improves. Take a look at how battery-storage costs have fallen since roughly 2015... Using batteries for storage is now so cheap that companies can't ignore it. That's a boon for clean energy. And according to a recent Bloomberg article, batteries are now helping gas-powered data centers, too. Check it out...   BloombergNEF has tracked 4.9 gigawatts of energy storage announcements that are co-located with on-site fossil fuel generation at data centers. That's about 32% of announced global on-site data center battery capacity. The sites include some of the largest AI data center complexes under development, such as Elon Musk's Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, and the combo has become so popular that companies such as Caterpillar Inc. and GE Vernova Inc. have announced products or partnerships pairing energy storage with gas generation. Many data centers are running gas turbines for shorter periods and using batteries to support the rest of their power needs. These batteries can provide quick and reliable power. That's important when a data center wants to ramp up computing tasks... which require a lot more energy. Batteries are there to provide the extra juice. The need for battery storage won't go away anytime soon, either. It takes four years on average for data centers to connect to the grid. So in the meantime, many are turning to this combination of gas and battery usage. According to Bloomberg, more and more companies are announcing plans for battery storage to support gas-powered data centers over the next couple of years. You can see this in the chart below... In short, battery-storage demand isn't just coming from the clean-energy revolution anymore. We still see the major clean-energy shift as a big tailwind for batteries. But as data centers catch onto battery storage, there's even more reason to be bullish on the sector. Years ago, battery storage was too expensive for a lot of companies to use. Now, it's so cheap that even gas-powered data centers are adding it to the mix. Don't sit on the sidelines while this trend takes off. Good investing, Chris Igou   Editor's note: One of Chris' Stansberry colleagues – who boasts two $100 million trades – just went public about what could be his "next $100 million trade"... As this hedge-fund legend says, a historic supply crunch that's decades in the making is about to reach a breaking point. 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