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IDF and Oaktree commit $1.7 billion to Bloom Energy fuel cells for Nebius AI cloud power

7/17/2026

The hard constraint on AI data center growth is no longer silicon.

Large-scale AI training and inference clusters draw power continuously, at densities that stress grid infrastructure and exhaust interconnection capacity across many markets.

Fuel cells address that constraint by generating electricity on-site through an electrochemical process. No wait for a grid upgrade approval.

The unit that drives the economics is the kilowatt-hour delivered to the rack, and fuel cells produce it independently of the transmission grid.

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