Bloom Energy Scores Billion-Dollar AI Deals, but 86 Local Moratoriums Signal a New Hurdle
16.06.2026 - 01:00:49 | boerse-global.de
The AI boom has turned Bloom Energy into one of the market’s most explosive stories — a 1,100% rally over the past twelve months and a Q1 revenue surge of 130% to $751 million. Yet for all the cheering over megawatt-scale contracts and surging demand, the fuel-cell maker is facing a challenge that no power purchase agreement can fix: growing hostility from the communities where data centers actually get built.
Bloom Energy published an update to its data-center survey on Monday, and the numbers paint a stark picture of local pushback. Over the past six months alone, at least 18 statewide bills and 86 local building moratoriums targeting new data centers have been proposed across the United States. Residents are worried about higher electricity bills, strained water supplies, and overloaded grids. The question is no longer just whether the power exists — it’s whether towns are willing to shoulder the burden.
The company is leaning into the tension as a selling point. Bloom’s solid-oxide fuel cells generate electricity on-site, bypassing grid bottlenecks and cutting construction timelines. “Solutions that preserve the local infrastructure will determine who leads the next wave of AI,” said Natalie Sunderland, Bloom’s chief marketing officer, in the report.
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One example of how quickly projects can unravel came from Wyoming. Crusoe Energy Systems, the original developer of the sprawling “Project Jade” data center in Cheyenne, halted work on June 10 at a customer’s request. The first phase of the 1.8-gigawatt facility had called for 900 megawatts of Bloom fuel cells, and the news sent Bloom shares tumbling more than 10%. Local utility Black Hills Energy quickly pushed back, stating that construction on its side had not paused and that a customer was still working directly with it. Reports later indicated that Google, a potential tenant, had pushed for Crusoe’s exit over cost and schedule concerns. Black Hills has since taken over the project’s leadership, and RBC Capital maintained its “Outperform” rating, noting that the timeline had not changed despite the partner swap.
Even with that drama, Bloom’s order book keeps swelling. A framework agreement with Oracle runs as high as 2.8 gigawatts, with 1.2 gigawatts already under contract. A ten-year deal with Nebius is valued at $2.6 billion, and a partnership with Brookfield could funnel up to $5 billion into AI data centers. The company’s product revenue jumped 208% in the first quarter, while operating cash flow reached $73.6 million. Management lifted its full-year revenue guidance to a range of $3.4 billion to $3.8 billion, representing roughly 80% growth.
Goldman Sachs estimates that U.S. data-center power demand will more than double from 31 gigawatts in 2024 to 66 gigawatts by 2027. Bloom is positioning its on-site fuel cells as the answer to both the capacity crunch and the carbon problem: nearly a third of data centers with their own power generation plan to integrate carbon capture by 2030. The company’s report also noted that inference workloads — the real-world use of trained AI models — now account for more than 50% of AI computing demand, signaling that the shift from experimental training to practical deployment is accelerating.
Shares closed at around €240 on Monday, up 7.4% and recovering from recent lows. The stock remains roughly 15% below its 52-week high of €282 set in late May. The next test for Bloom will be whether it can scale its technology beyond marquee partnerships and into the mainstream cloud market — and whether local politics will let it.
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