{"id":210067,"date":"2025-10-13T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210067\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:01:09","slug":"brookfield-invests-5-billion-in-bloom-energy-for-fuel-cells-to-power-ai-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210067\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookfield invests $5-billion in Bloom Energy for fuel cells to power AI data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Brookfield Asset Management <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/BAM-T\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/BAM-T\/\">BAM-T <\/a>said on Monday it will invest up to $5-billion in Bloom Energy\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/BE-N\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/BE-N\/\"> BE-N<\/a> fuel cell technology to power data centres, as companies eye cleaner energy to meet the needs of the artificial intelligence boom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Shares of Bloom Energy were up 31 per cent at $113.72 in premarket trading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Companies are turning to cleaner power sources such as nuclear, renewables and fuel cells as they invest billions into building and expanding data centers to meet the surge in demand for AI, cloud computing and digital services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-brookfields-20-billion-transition-fund-shows-investor-confidence-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brookfield\u2019s $20-billion transition fund shows investor confidence in clean energy remains strong<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-openai-eyes-artificial-intelligence-data-centre-capacity-in-canada\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI eyes artificial intelligence data-centre capacity in Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The two companies are working on the design and delivery of AI factories globally, including a site in Europe that will be announced before the end of the year, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Brookfield is pushing to expand Europe\u2019s largest AI infrastructure cluster. In June, it had announced plans to invest up to 95 billion Swedish crowns (US$9.98-billion) to build an AI data center in Sweden and a 20 billion euro commitment for AI projects in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Fuel cells offer a cleaner alternative to traditional power by generating electricity through chemical reactions rather than combustion. Depending on the fuel, byproducts can include water and heat, making them more environment friendly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Bloom Energy has already deployed its fuel cell technology to data centers, through partnerships with American Electric Power, Equinix and Oracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brookfield Asset Management BAM-T said on Monday it will invest up to $5-billion in Bloom Energy\u2019s BE-N fuel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,4717,61],"class_list":["post-210067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-energy","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}