{"id":812292,"date":"2026-05-21T13:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/812292\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:39:16","slug":"bloom-energy-rises-2-after-partnership-with-european-ai-cloud-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/812292\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloom Energy rises 2% after partnership with European AI cloud firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloom Energy power storage equipment in San Ramon, California.<\/p>\n<p>Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BE\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloom Energy&#8217;s<\/a> shares were higher before the opening bell after it unveiled a partnership with Europe&#8217;s Nebius, an AI cloud provider seeking to overcome power constraints in the AI infrastructure buildout. <\/p>\n<p>Nebius said Wednesday that it would <a href=\"https:\/\/nebius.com\/newsroom\/nebius-and-bloom-energy-partner-to-power-ai-infrastructure-build-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deploy Bloom&#8217;s fuel-cell technology<\/a> to generate electricity faster and more quickly at its data centers in Europe. Nebius will pay Bloom up to $2.6 billion in service fees during the life of the agreement, subject to conditions, the company said in a SEC filing. <\/p>\n<p>The cloud company plans to buy electricity generated by Bloom&#8217;s systems, while Bloom will install and manage the equipment. The project is expected to roll out in three phases over 10-year terms,  providing about 250 megawatts of guaranteed power capacity and 328 megawatts of installed capacity, per the filing.<\/p>\n<p>Bloom was last trading 1.6% higher in premarket trading, while the Nasdaq-listed Nebius was up over 7%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Power remains a\u00a0key constraint for AI\u00a0infrastructure build-outs,&#8221; Nebius&#8217; Chief Product and Infrastructure Officer Andrey Korolenko said in the statement. &#8220;We\u00a0chose Bloom because their fuel cells solve that directly: Clean power with virtually no\u00a0pollutants is\u00a0deployed onsite, on\u00a0the timelines our customers need, with the availability AI\u00a0workloads require.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/18\/europe-ai-energy-electricity-costs-data-centers-china-us.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/108172182-1752594309297-gettyimages-1213009893-liiv_linemen__005.jpeg\" alt=\"Linemen work on a rebuild of Northwestern Energy electric transmissions lines in Park County on May 14, 2020 in Livingston, Montana. \"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/18\/europe-ai-energy-electricity-costs-data-centers-china-us.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High energy prices could derail Europe\u2019s AI race with U.S. and China<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u00a0expect to\u00a0put this technology to\u00a0work alongside our infrastructure as\u00a0we\u00a0continue to\u00a0scale our capacity,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nebius has secured several partnerships as it emerges as a key AI compute provider in Europe, including a $2 billion investment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/NVDA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia<\/a> and a $27 billion infrastructure deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/META\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta<\/a> in March. <\/p>\n<p>It also recently announced plans to build the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/31\/nebius-finland-ai-factory-europe-compute.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">region&#8217;s largest AI data center in Finland<\/a>, which will have a capacity of 310 MW, and will start supplying customers by 2027. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/31\/nebius-finland-ai-factory-europe-compute.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/108199590-1758055673663-gettyimages-2235804693-dji_20250916100435_0516_d_b9kjre4c.jpeg\" alt=\"In an aerial view, a billboard advertising an artificial intelligence (AI) company is posted on Sept. 16, 2025 in San Francisco, California.\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/31\/nebius-finland-ai-factory-europe-compute.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nebius unveils plans to build one of Europe&#8217;s largest AI factories as region scrambles for compute <\/a><\/p>\n<p>While several AI compute commitments have been announced in Europe, several challenges are in play, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/18\/europe-ai-energy-electricity-costs-data-centers-china-us.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">higher energy prices<\/a> than in the U.S., as well as projects facing delays connecting to power grids and energy constraints. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Kai Nicol-Schwarz helped contribute to this story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bloom Energy power storage equipment in San Ramon, California. Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":812293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,152042,133,11732,81,746,252626,135,3747,152036,147,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-812292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bloom-energy-corp","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-environment","tag-intl-premarket-movers","tag-markets","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-nebius-group-nv","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116612850589701192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}