Simon Edwards

Chief Financial Officer, Bloom Energy · 1 appearance on the record.

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Simon Edwards is the Chief Financial Officer at Bloom Energy. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Groq.

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Groq CFO: AI workloads will consume 25% of US energy by 2028

“I think I saw a statistic that says by twenty-twenty-eight in the United States, a quarter of all of the energy produced will be used to run AI workloads, right, which is an amazing statistic.”

Simon Edwards Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 8:12 Groq and Cohere CFOs: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Profitable?

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Groq CFO: In ten years no one will regret AI infrastructure spending

“And so I think 10 years from now, no one will look back and say, I wish we spent less money on AI infrastructure.”

Simon Edwards Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 14:12 Groq and Cohere CFOs: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Profitable?

Opinion

Edwards: Wharton's 74% AI ROI finding is closer to truth than MIT's

“I think 74% are getting an ROI. I live in the Bay Area, and I think I can't, I rarely see a company in the Bay Area right now who is not applying AI to drive productivity for their engineers, or drive productivity for their customer support reps. So I think a …”

Simon Edwards Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 1:38 Groq and Cohere CFOs: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Profitable?

Opinion

Groq CFO Edwards: AI Hardware Industry Remains Strictly Supply-Constrained

“I think we're still seeing the industry as supply constrained. And so it's not a case of NVIDIA or Grok or pick your chip manufacturer, but how do all of us deploy as much capacity as needed in order to serve all of these use cases?”

Simon Edwards Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 7:15 Groq and Cohere CFOs: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Profitable?

Insight

Edwards: Large enterprise AI ROI requires cost cuts, not just growth

“Smaller companies are likely growing quicker, and AI enables them to create leverage as they're growing, versus larger companies already have that infrastructure that Francois mentioned, and so actually in a lot of use cases, As those AI solutions are effectiv…”

Simon Edwards Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 12:00 Groq and Cohere CFOs: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Profitable?

Insight

Edwards: AI delivers immediate value but forces reactive process redesign

“With these AI solutions, you can get value immediately. But you get value immediately and then have to go completely reconfigure your processes as an afterthought as opposed to design it in.”

Simon Edwards Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 13:06 Groq and Cohere CFOs: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Profitable?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Groq and Cohere CFOs: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Profitable?	Nov 28, 2025	5m

Simon Edwards

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