RWE shares soar near 15-year high after data centre sale boosts AI hopes

By Christoph Steitz and Tom Käckenhoff FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) -RWE, Germany's top power producer, reported higher-than-expected profit for the first nine months of the year, ​boosted by a 225 million euro ($262 million) book gain that fuelled hopes for more such ‌deals on the back of a global AI spending push. Shares in RWE, which is also the world's second-biggest developer of offshore wind ‌projects, closed up 9.1% at their highest level since February 2011, adding nearly 3 billion euros in ma ...