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Kr Sridhar

Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Bloom

Search every verified Kr Sridhar interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. KR Sridhar, founder and CEO of Bloom Energy, discussed the company's record financial results and growth trajectory during its Q2 2026 earnings calls. He reported that Bloom achieved its first $1 billion quarter, with revenue up 166% year-over-year, and guided toward doubling that revenue within a year. Sridhar attributed the acceleration to demand from AI data centers, noting that the company had become a standard for on-site power within nine months of announcing its first direct hyperscaler customer, Oracle. He also stated that Bloom's backlog was growing faster than its revenue and that the company could deliver power in months, contrasting this with what he described as a four-year backlog being a "confession of constrained supply." In media appearances, Sridhar discussed the broader implications of AI-driven electricity demand, describing electricity as a $5.5 trillion global market and positioning Bloom's fuel cell technology as a solution for data centers and other applications. He argued that AI represents a revolution requiring dedicated, reliable power sources, and suggested that natural gas would power data centers in the near term, with hydrogen as a future option. Sridhar also emphasized the importance of energy abundance for economic growth, stating that "if we create energy abundance, we create economic abundance," and warned that countries like India risked severe economic consequences if they fell behind in adopting new power infrastructure.

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“When power is democratized, access is not restricted by people who are in power. And that's true democracy. I would say don't short the US. Don't short Silicon Valley.”

“For the first time in human history, we are manufacturing intelligence as a product, as a commodity. That's amazing what it's going to do for the wellness of people all over the world and uplift lives in the long term. That's pretty amazing. That's exciting. But, manufacturing intelligence, unlike a factory that manufactures chemicals or materials, what's the input? All the data that's out there and electricity. That”

“For the first time in human history, we are manufacturing intelligence as a product, as a commodity. That's amazing. What it's going to do for the wellness of people all over the world and uplift lives in the long term. That's pretty amazing. That's exciting. But, manufacturing intelligence, unlike a factory that manufactures chemicals or materials, what's the input? All the data that's out there and electricity. Tha”

“Unfortunately, a significant fraction of the younger generation see this only as a crisis and not an opportunity. It is rather than them protest about it, I would love them to go learn science and technology and engineering and business building and you know community building and find solutions because it is also the biggest opportunity economic opportunity for everybody.”

“I always joke to people, we didn't leave the stone age because we ran out of stones. You know, we're not going to stop using fossil fuels because we ran out of fossil fuels. Because there was something better that came along. Okay? And that better was more affordable, more reliable, more sustainable, and most important, extremely abundant. Because think about this, energy in science is defined as the capacity to do w”

“I think in a decade our technology will be the cheapest way to convert a molecule to electricity. Period. It'll be the cheapest way all put together because of the efficiency at which we convert it and the capital cost and everything associated with we will be no ifs, ands, or buts. We will be the cheapest way.”

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