Bloom CEO says it all!!!21 Sep 2025 20:18
Power strategy.” What does a good power strategy look like?
KR Sridhar: Think of AI as an intelligence factory, and that factory is going to need a dedicated power source, because its intelligence is what drives everything else. You can’t afford to lose power there, and you can’t afford to wait for physical infrastructure to catch up and provide you the power that you need. We are also living in a climate-changed world, which means poles and wires bringing you electricity are going to have disruptions that you cannot afford to have. Reliability is going to become super important. In the past, you would have used a backup generator and batteries to take care of it. But given the amount of power needed, you can’t afford to just have Band-Aids. You’re going to need a more reliable, permanent solution.
How much of the demand growth you’re seeing is driven by AI?
For the next eight to 10 years, AI is going to be the dog and everything else is going to be the tail, in terms of energy growth. To put it in perspective, there are four companies within a 10-square-mile radius of Bloom in Silicon Valley that together are going to invest close to $2 billion a day, weekday and weekend, in capital expenses alone. This is mind-boggling. It’s easy to just say that number and not stop and think about what the heck that means. And that entire $2 billion worth of CapEx requires power to operate.