Sridhar: Tech value creation only happens when workloads move to the edge
K.R. Sridhar · Frontier Forum: The new power map for AI infrastructure · Oct 21, 2025 · at 13:39
Bloom Energy CEO K.R. Sridhar compares the historical evolution of computing and telecom architectures to AI infrastructure.
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“While things start In a very centralized fashion far away, ultimately the value is only created and the growth comes when that technology comes to the edge, closer to where people are, closer to where machines are, closer to where people are, and that is the predominant use.”
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