By David Uberti

The fear of higher rates slowing the debt-fueled AI buildout is battering shares in firms across the data-center supply chain.

Companies ranging from construction firms to fiber-optic cable manufacturers to cooling specialists are down:

-- Contractor Sterling Infrastructure and fiber provider Corning slid more than 10%.

-- Vertiv, which helps data centers manage power and cooling systems, skidded nearly 9% lower.

-- Neocloud companies including CoreWeave, Core Scientific and Nebius, which lease computing capacity to larger players, are deep in the red.

-- Independent power producers such as Constellation Energy and Talen are also down.

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