The Morgan Stanley Blueprint Bloom Energy Powering The Ai Economy

TITLE: The Morgan Stanley Blueprint: Bloom Energy: Powering the AI Economy CHANNEL: Morgan Stanley DATE: 2026-06-15 URL: https://youtu.be/ibJYvPzWRXk ---TRANSCRIPT--- KR: When you think about the AI boom, the first time in human history, we are manufacturing intelligence. And those data centers consume more power than the biggest refineries in the world. When you need gigawatts worth of power, the size of some small nation’s worth of power, coming into one single data center, the electric grid was not designed for that. And that’s where Bloom comes in. What we do at Bloom Energy is we take a molecule, whether it’s biogas, natural gas, hydrogen, and without combusting it, we extract the chemical energy in that molecule to make electricity. And because we don’t burn, there is no air pollution. It requires no water and it makes no noise. You can locate it right where you need the electricity. And today, you can find our Bloom Boxes in almost all segments of commercial and industrial customers. In the very early days, when I had to go make a pitch about this to venture capitalists, we had to just completely educate them from the basic understanding to get the company funded. It was around 2007 that we were looking for funding and our early investors had a great relationship with Morgan Stanley. Skip: A lot of investors weren’t sure which box to put Bloom in. Is it a technology company? Is it a power company? In this case, using bankers who understood both technology and power, allowed us to best communicate that story to investors. We were able to help them raise capital at the asset level, which allowed them to offer to their customers a lease or a power purchase agreement solution rather than an upfront capital cost. We have been a tax equity provider for them for a number of years. And we became a customer as well several years ago. We installed Bloom servers in our Purchase, New York facility as well as our headquarters here in Manhattan. KR: Through that customer experience, they got to have much greater knowledge of what this product and technology was capable of doing. Being a private company and then transitioning to a public company is a huge transition. And what you really need is a financial partner who understands your technology, who understands the energy sector, who understands the electricity sector, and knows why this disruption in an industrial age sector can happen with a technology minded company. Stephen: Morgan Stanley was the lead on the IPO of Bloom Energy and so me and my team really were thinking through not just where the company was today but importantly, as we fast forwarded to much greater scale, where were they going to be? And we liked what we saw in terms of an incredibly large market with minimal competition, with a product from Bloom Energy that was very efficient, very elegant, and with the potential to drop in cost a lot. KR: It took Stephen to really understand it and articulate this to everybody. And he also realized the role that Bloom could play as an onsite power in a very disruptive manner. Now with the AI boom, that’s our big growth area. Stephen: So as these data center developers are eagerly looking for power, there are very few options that can be put in place very quickly. Bloom Energy’s fuel cells can be installed in a couple of months. That’s very rare. And what we’re seeing now is incredibly rapid growth at Bloom. Skip: As they grow, their needs change and we’re able to provide those different services according to their needs. We were there with private equity, we were there with direct investment, the IPO, as well as private wealth management. Stephen: Bloom Energy is sometimes thought of as an overnight success, but it really hasn’t been. It’s the culmination of a lot of work. But the last year or two have been really transformative. The future for Bloom Energy, in my opinion, is very exciting. KR: We set out Bloom with a bold mission statement of being accessible, affordable and abundant electricity for everybody on the planet. We are prepared for the challenge and we’ll grow as fast as we can. We want to become more productive, more profitable and more useful to humanity. This is where we see the future going.