Bloom Energy and Brookfield Asset Management announced a partnership valued at up to $5 billion, as the two companies push to power the next generation of AI data centers.
The deal was announced on October 13, 2025, under which Brookfield committed up to $5 billion to deploy Bloom’s solid oxide fuel cell technology across its global AI infrastructure portfolio. That agreement also named Bloom Energy as Brookfield’s preferred onsite power provider. The October 2025 announcement marked the first investment Brookfield made under its dedicated AI infrastructure strategy.
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Solid oxide fuel cells are a highly efficient, low-carbon power plant that fits on a data center campus, runs independently from the grid, and does not require the lengthy permitting timelines that traditional utility connections demand.
When a hyperscaler needs large amounts of power for a new AI training facility quickly, Bloom’s technology is one of the few options that can deliver on that timeline. The AI infrastructure buildout is constrained less by capital today than by the physical reality of connecting large loads to aging electrical grids. Fuel cells sidestep that bottleneck, which is precisely why Brookfield structured Bloom as the anchor energy provider for its AI factory strategy.
