K.R. Shridhar is the founder and CEO of Bloom Energy. He highlights Bloom's commercial and industrial power deployment beyond AI data centers.
Opinion
Shridhar: Government Equity Stakes in AI Companies Stifle Startup Competition
“The only thing regulation can do, in my opinion, is stop that innovative culture. So if the government took Major equity shares in a company, and because of that provided unfair access for those companies to its products and its people. By definition, they're …”
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Shridhar: AI Growth Will Maintain Long-Term Trajectory Despite Market Corrections
“Anything going at that speed, will it have bumps along the road? Will it have pauses along the way? Most probably, yes. You know, we don't know of anything else in human history of this scale and this magnitude, but it is the trajectory. Is the normal course a…”
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Shridhar: AI Demand Will Drive Global Electricity Abundance Within 20 Years
“So I'm super optimistic that if we look back 20 years from now, we will say AI was the best thing that happened because of which electricity abundance happened to everybody on the planet. AI is just a catalyst, a stepping stone, and a, and an accelerator.”
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Tens of Gigawatts of Bloom Generation Requires <10% of Electronics Supply Chain
“So even at the tens of gigawatts, we will be single digit percentages Of the total supply chain that already exists to make other devices of similar nature.”
Opinion
Shridhar: Horizontal Drilling Is the Most Underrated Energy Transition Sector
“I think the people who created horizontal drilling and figured out how to extract more gas and more oil in a clear way as a bridge to the future, ah, that entire sector is underrated.”
Opinion
Shridhar: Electricity Is the Key Factor Enabling the AI Revolution
“Any revolution, and I would call AI. Absolutely a revolution. It's almost a hockey stick on a hockey stick. Clearly, electricity becomes the key factor.”