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Why Fermi Rallied Today

The speculative AI data center play received positive attention this week, with OpenAI in the spotlight.

Why Fermi Rallied Today

Why Fermi Rallied Today

Published June 17, 2026 · Category: Finance

Overview

Shares of Fermi (NASDAQ: FRMI) rallied as much as 16.5% on Wednesday, before settling into an 8.7% gain on the day, even as markets broadly sold off.

Fermi has been a controversial but very interesting AI infrastructure stock, given the early stage of its data center campus build-out and vast ambitions.

Details

Fermi is building a massive power-delivery and AI data center campus, called Matador, in West Texas. However, as of today, it has not signed up a customer. Back in April, Fermi's CEO and CFO resigned amid a broad shake-up, in an apparent admission that its current leadership wasn't executing on drawing in customers to the project.

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Originally published at www.fool.com.

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