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KR Sridhar

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“I truly believe we will look back at this huge hunger for power that AI created and the most wealthy companies in the world wanting to get ahead, being the single most important reason for us to figure out digital power for the digital world and creating abundance of power that's not in conflict with the environment and making it affordable. That ultimately there is no energy poor country that's economically rich. If we create energy abundance, we create economic abundance and that lifts all boats everywhere. So I'm super excited about that opportunity. And I almost have trouble sleeping when I think about what a brilliant world that can be.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I was in China in a remote part, I had a bad accident where I could have easily bled to death and I was driven to the hospital. It was in a remote town. So through my translator with few seconds left of my consciousness, I was like, get me a helicopter, get me to Hong Kong. And I don't know the name of the doctor, but I vaguely remember his face in that state telling to the interpreter, ask him to shut up. I'm going to stitch him up, otherwise his body will be flown to Hong Kong. And he stitched me up. And when I look back, that was a very kind thing that he did for me, not listening to me.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was post financial crisis we had built a completely US supply chain and because the big three automotives had failed they were all not able to keep their promises to me because we were just a development company at that time and I had to within months find a plan B for what is a strong plan A six years in the making It was a very difficult time to get through that.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think about creating more equal access. Equity is different, but creating access is important. Giving everybody an opportunity is super important to me. What they make of that opportunity is up to them.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We are very well prepared to move anywhere in the world today, but it'll be a very focused effort. And when we go to other countries, we'll always look for a partner in the country.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“V would be going to the rest of the world where they don't have the upfront money and capital to buy our boxes and our infrastructure and putting that in and collecting later once they benefit from it.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think Europe is waking up faster than I would have expected because of AI, and I'm optimistic hearing both from the EU and UK about the changes they want to make. The key is going to be can they really make the changes fast enough?”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think the people who created horizontal drilling and figured out how to extract more gas and more oil in a clear way as a bridge to the future, that entire sector is underrated.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is what I would tell my kids I would say be good people and be happy. Just work on the things you're passionate about”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think until the time when this big switch happened, we were a lot more internally focused. And I did not spend much time talking about the bigger ideas and where this can ultimately go because it was not the right time to do that. Now we feel as a company, we have a larger mandate than just building the company, but to also speak about where the future can be in terms of electricity for all, abundance for all. So that's a big shift in my mindset. So I'm spending more time speaking about it and talking to people about it.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, throughout human history, if you look at where people concentrated, it was for access. So anywhere there was a waterway, by river, by the coast, is where people settled because waterways were great way to trade. And it was access. And then you just look at the large railroads, you look at the big highways where they intersect is where large cities are. Or, you know, that's where access is created. So access was created by people who control and they controlled where people lived. If you can break that, using distributed, again, going back to true democracy, you just democratize things. Any technology coming to the edge democratizes it. Your cell phone today is your personal device with only the things you want. Did the landline telephone ever give you that access? No. That's true democracy. Technology bringing true democracy. If you're able to do that,”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have better access. Why not bring the access right where they live? In a digital age, you can bring all the information, you can bring everything else there. If you brought electricity, I think it changes how the world can think about itself.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, the first time I knew about it was when my 22 year old daughter showed me that all her friends are talking about it because of social media. But I've made him sense. He's a very sharp, deep thinking individual. I think he's got some tremendous ideas of where things are. We obviously agree with his thesis on Bloom. The impact, I think, look, it's going to come from multiple areas. This is a huge concept. The idea of distributed power coming to the edge is a concept that's going to change dramatically city planning access, the need for people to move from an unaccessible area to a metropolitan city just so their next generation can have a better life. I don't think that's the way 10 billion people should live on the planet. So let me explain this. The only reason parents will leave their idealic village settings and move into a city and live in paltry conditions. You know, they're willing to compromise their own life.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, we don't, we are signed up with multiple hyperscalers. Signed up with multiple neoclouds, but more importantly, it's not just not having an AI concentration. We have a robust commercial and industrial business. We power factories. We power home depots and Costco and Walmart's. We power college campuses, two-thirds of Caltech campus is powered by us. Anybody who needs reliable power should use us.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Grossly impossible because we are a public company, we have not given forward guidance on that. So I don't feel comfortable giving you a number. But the promise we have made to our customers and to the market is you come in and put a firm deposit. For power before you build your green field data center, we'll have that power for you. We will not be the bottleneck.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Will be over to gigawatts. We said that publicly, and what we also said is going forward, we are not just going to just ram from another big step function or whatever. We have made this based on everything we see in the market today. Think of it almost like an analog dial. Every month, every quarter, we're going to keep adding more capacity as we build. So if you came to our factory, it's a state-of-the-art production facility, but it's also a state-of-the-art construction zone. They're both happening at the same time. And we're able to do that. And it's a state-of-the-art innovation area where we are innovating on our manufacturing processes so we can make it more efficient as we go forward thanks to AI.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Lack of wastage. Entire efficiency. It's an entire stack efficiency, the full vertical stack. It's almost like you are custom designing your furniture for your own home that fits perfectly as opposed to just generic cubes.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Cost to the token generated, the amount of power needed for that, and the amount of gas needed for that, the amount of copper needed for that, the amount of other supply chain and tradesmen needed for that.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With electricity, go back to the context we talked about, it is the primary input to manufacturing intelligence. At the end of the day, when you look at it end to end, it's neither price nor cost, it's value. You're generating tokens. The token has a value. What set the entire stream look like, and how can you maximize the value? So the reason I'm saying that is the cost of electricity as we used to think when the grid was supplying it because it was a one-size-fits-all electricity. What Bloom makes is designer electricity. So the one-size-fits-all electricity means that you buy that electricity and then you have to make all the alterations to that one size fits all, which is all the gear that you put in your data center that you own, that you operate, that you maintain, and those things fail, they create reliability issues, you have to deal with all that and all the inefficiency associated with that.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They don't need it with blow. And then we can scale as you go. You cannot put a partial turbine to power a data center as it's building and then keep adding turbine blades as the data center is ramping up. With Bloom, it's completely different. Just tell me what you need today. And as you're growing, we'll just keep adding the Lego blocks. So when I tell you that Bloom was purpose-built and purpose design for the digital infrastructure, it was truly done that way. And the band-aids that you put on the mechanical age infrastructure, like turbines and engines, simply cannot do that. They saw these advantages. And so it was a fairly easy conversation.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You have so many different server blades, and any one server blade going down does not take the data center down. There are so many racks, any one rack going down does not take the entire data center down. Our architecture is exactly like that. So you don't have to overbuild us by anything more than a small percentage compared to the large turbines. Number one. Number two, we're a solid state device, which means we can ramp up and ramp down in power in milliseconds, which is what the AI loads need. AI loads are like the brain. Just think about it. Our brain goes into huge activity, pulse, lot of energy, then it comes down. The same thing happens in an AI data center with all the GPUs. Think about a turbine. Think about your car. 0 to 60 takes few seconds because the mechanical device that has to ramp up and ramp down, we are a solid state device that can ramp up and down very fast. So all the batteries that they needed to provide this ramp.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A 20 year period on a yearly basis will be somewhere in the low 90s because you need to maintain the turbine. It's like your jet engine or it's like your car. It has to stop. You have to maintain it. What happens during the other 10%? Are you going to turn down the data center? You can't. The data center must be always on. In the past, when the data centers were small, you relied on the grid to be the backup. Now there is no grid that is a gigawatt in size that can be backing you up. So what do you have to do? You have to put two turbines instead of one and have one as the backup when one fails or one has to be overhauled. With bloom, we are tiny modular power builders, each one 50 kilowatts. So you can hot swap any one when you're working with it. Very similar to how a data center is built. If you look at the architecture of the Bloom system, it's very much like the architecture of the data center.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And had to come online for Oracle's customer, and the power systems were delayed. So they came to us and said, can you give us a temporary solution for a year? I said, absolutely. We signed a contract with them that 90 days from the day we signed the contract, we would do 50 plus megawatts, which is an unbelievable speed. We delivered that in 55 days instead of 90 days. Power on. They were thrilled with what they saw. So now that formed the basis for them to say, why would we go and look for other solutions when we have a great solution that fits the bill? There are so many attributes of the Bloom system that are so well done for a data center. Let me give you two or three simple examples so you can understand. If you have a large turbine, let's say it's 500 megawatts, one single large turbine, powering a 500 megawatt data center. That turbine's availability over”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, you know, the proof is on the pudding, right? Before AI came along, we had at least five or six data center customers and over a period of 10 to 12 years, we've been providing reliable power to edge data centers, other data centers, four megawatts, 10 megawatts, 15 megawatts for a data center. And our very first data center application was in 2013 when eBay, which used to be eBay and PayPal together. And if you think about it, right, PayPal's entire business is that data center. Because it's all about transactions. And all those transactions are happening in a data center. So they did not have power in Utah and they needed power. The choice was to move somewhere else and they didn't want to move their location. So they relied on us. So that was our first application of a mission critical data center being powered fully by Bloom. And we built that reputation over time. So a couple years ago, there was a data center in Utah that was being built.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I worked on the Mars missions and I know how to produce water and breathing air on Mars. Trust me, it's really hard.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think of all the supply chains in the world, we pretty much know how to grow food wherever we are. After food, it's energy sovereignty, period. If you just go back to the history of the world, right? Big wars have been fought for water. If there's a river flowing through multiple countries, big wars have been fought for water rights. We know how to produce water. Big wars have been fought for food. We know how to produce food. Big wars are being fought for energy. Are being fought for energy. As we speak, and we can avoid that.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the immediate term, America is endowed with unbelievable amounts of natural gas, which is the best available option molecule, even though it has a carbon footprint. It is the cleanest, the smallest carbon footprint molecule available. We should be able to, along with Australia, along with Canada, along with UAE, along with Qatar, the free world, be able to provide access of that gas to practically every country in the nation. And it is affordable and economical where we don't have to burn coal. So good should not be the enemy of the best. So we should be able to provide that and we should use boxes like what we build to be able to bring that distributed power to anybody in the planet. Let us not let the people who don't have our best interest supplying power to us, supplying energy to us. That would be the immediate pathway, I would tell the president, is that”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I would break that like any other business plan into a short term, midterm, and long term vision for the world is wherever you live, this wind solar geothermal, something available. You use that electricity when nature gives it to you, and then you bottle that electricity when nature will not give it to you in the form of a hydrogen that you make right on site. And then you recycle that hydrogen using something like bloom to be able to get reliable abundant power wherever you live. So the fact that you become self-reliant in any community, whether you live in Iceland or you live in sub-Saharan Africa and not depend on some lifeline, some logistic lifeline, bringing you energy, which is critical to your well-being, is huge. That's the vision I have for the long term. And I'm super optimistic about that. Okay, so how do you facilitate that?”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Associated with that. That heat in a large power plant gets wasted when it's close to the edge, you use it for heating, you use it for cooling. So you're able to use that molecule in a much more efficient manner, much more sustainable manner. So it not only brings you control and destiny which you need, it also brings all the other good attributes of it. And when power is democratized, access is not restricted by people who are in power. And that's true democracy.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You've done well, but you've got a long way to go. We have a long way to go. But make no mistake. Power of the edge is coming, is going to be dominant and is going to transform the electricity industry. We're going to look back at this age and say AI accelerated that. And that's a good thing for everybody on the planet because of two reasons, right? People talk about clean power. The only reason we tolerate power that's not clean is it's out of sight, out of mind somewhere far away. If it's outside your bedroom window, if it's outside your office window, you don't care about what the regulations are. You want it to be clean. You want your children to breathe that clean air. So clean will become just second nature stable steaks. And number two is anytime you develop power from or you transform power from a molecule to electricity, this heat is”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A scale issue, right? Again, you're beginning to see the hockey stick, but it's the beginning stages, so I completely sympathize with how you say it, and I agree with it. And let's put this in perspective. Electricity in the world is a $5.5 trillion market. Last year, our revenues were $2 billion. So we need to...”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Whether it's on cyber or a physical attack, cannot be the only way that lifeline is delivered to you. So power has to be at the edge without a question for us to realize the entire dream of the digital transformation.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What they don't see today is in a world where everything is digital, having power outages for any reason is unacceptable. That's like not having air to breathe because God forbid somebody's doing a surgery. That's going to be a robot relying on all the data, everything coming electronically and not having power at that moment is not an option. If you have all the transportation logistics driverless and there's a chaos, you cannot rely on some large data center far away with latency because by then enough damage has happened. You cannot afford the latency. So that needs to happen on the edge. So when everything in life depends so intimately on that power not going off, a pole and a wire running across hundreds of miles capable of disruption by mother nature, capable of destruction by bad actors.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The Bloom story. We believe bringing power to the edge has to happen. That is the digital transformation of electricity. And we are the only purpose built, purpose created company that created a technology and a platform that comes to the edge.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So it's not just a large big mega data centers that we are talking about right now, the AI factories. The AI factories ultimately need to have this distribution warehouse of intelligence. Those are the edge data centers residing in every neighborhood like the one we are in right now. They become winners. And then you have the people who develop all the services winning because they're the service providers that provide all this. And everybody who supports the ecosystem wins. But to me on the electricity side that you're focused on, electricity is the one large infrastructure that's not come to the edge. It's always so far been very large power plants built very far away with transmission distribution coming in highways and in all like surface streets to you. How is it that electricity runs digital but electricity alone doesn't get smart, doesn't come to the edge? That's what blooms about.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At the end of the day, I would think almost all of the sectors are winners. It's just what are the names in each one of those verticals that you mentioned. Because if that doesn't exist, then you don't build an ecosystem that sustains. If there are only a couple winners in this, AI is not going to become ubiquitous. And I absolutely believe AI will become ubiquitous, which means there's an entire chain of winners. Let's start at the very right. At the very right is the consumer, the customer who procures it and finds greater value using that product than not using that product. So they have to be a winner. So any business all the way from a mom and pop, restaurant, laundry store to a very large biomedical company or a cancer cure hospital has to benefit from it. The people have to benefit from it. They're all winners. Then you start coming to the left. Almost everything in technology ultimately moves to the edge closer to where people are.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Their data center, can we get the permits? And the third part is we need gas, that gas supply needs to be able to come in. Those are the big bottlenecks. I don't see us delivering the product as the bottleneck right now.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, so here's what happens, right? If you want to build a 2 gigawatt data center, it's going to take you more than a year and a half, year to build a greenfield. There's an entire supply chain for that, including construction workers to supply chain parts related to that data center. They're all being stressed right now. There's a lot of copper that goes inside a data center. There's a supply chain issue related to that. There's a lot of cooling that goes inside a data center. There's a supply chain issue related to that. The tradespeople required to build these extremely large enough centers. There's a supply chain related to that. So it takes 12 to 18 months minimum to build something like that. We can stand up that power faster than they can build the data center. So our goal at Bloom is to say power should not be a bottleneck if you rely on us. So what are our constraints? Number one, can they build it in time?”
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“Being able to scale and scale fast. Now we are just opening that chapter and executing to that. It's all about execution. And execution at that scale is not trivial, is not easy. Just like I learned the very first time I had to build a product with Antigrove. But I'm still here to talk about that story, which means we are good learners. We learn how to get up when we fall.”
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“Look, we have developed a technology which does not use the traditional power supply supply chains. And the technologies we use are more into computer electronics and hardware, right? It's a solid state device that makes the electricity. So even at the tens of gigawatts, we will be single digit percentages of the total supply chain that already exists to make other devices of similar nature. So when Steve Jobs comes in shows his first smartphone, nobody says, will you build 5,000 of these or 10,000 of this next year? It's in the millions. And there's a supply chain that knows how to scale very fast. That's the supply chain we're going to rely on. And that didn't happen by accident. The company was built to light up the planet. That was the mission of the company. So everything we did in the company, including our manufacturing lines, were built for one day.”
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“Will say AI was the best thing that happened because of which electricity abundance happened to everybody on the planet. AI is just a catalyst, a stepping stone, and an accelerator.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is going to mean that since Edison almost 150 years later, we are going to create a new construct for electricity in the world that's more digital electricity as opposed to the mechanical age electricity. And that digital electricity, for many reasons I can walk you through, is going to be more efficient. It's going to be cleaner. It's going to be more reliable. And when these large companies that have the resources to allow that kind of new electricity to happen at scale, it's going to trickle down to the masses everywhere. Sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh to just use examples of countries that are in the developing basket are going to benefit from this. Just like an airbag comes in a very expensive car initially, and within a few years you see it in every car and it improves everybody's lives. I'm super optimistic that if you look back 20 years from now, we've”
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“Here's what's interesting, right? We are manufacturing intelligence as we spoke about, and there's never been a more high value product manufactured with electricity than intelligence. So the input into the factory, unlike a chemical factory where all these raw materials ores, other things come in and you process, the input into this factory is simply electricity and data. And data is everywhere. So the only real cost input coming in is electricity. The machines are the chips, the output is intelligence. So this is the single largest input. And that input today is not abundant. So clearly electricity becomes the key factor. So herein, I see it slightly differently. I believe the fact that electricity became so important for this critical industry that knows how to move at speed and scale.”
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“Yeah, why are you doing that, right? So as a society, as a technology industry, I think we should be empathetic to taking care of those people.”
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“Learn how to code because if you don't know how to code, you don't have a future. Suddenly comes AI and we are saying U coders have no future.”
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“Some other people I think there are many ways to come around it taking equity is the question you asked. I don't think that's the right model, but let's get to what the core issue is, right? The core issue is no new technology that's come along ultimately created less jobs. I don't think AI is going to be anything different. But when new technologies come along, even from the agrarian revolution to the industrial revolution, the transition generation suffers. There's collateral damage. Because we are creating so much wealth, is there a way to take a portion of that wealth and make sure that the people caught in the transition don't have to suffer as collateral damage? There should be a construct. That's for the political figures to figure out, right? There should be a construct. And I'm completely for that because these are people for no fault of their own. We in Silicon Valley said everybody”
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“Look, here's the thing about companies' tech ownerships, right? The top 20 most important companies, that list changes every 10 years in the US. It's so unlike the EU where practically new companies have rarely come on and displaced existing old companies. I see the world more and more being not monopolized by single large companies. You know, Microsoft used to be considered a monopoly and everybody was afraid.”
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“I think you're touching on something super important, which is abundance. If you just think about the previous revolution we had, which is the mechanical age, industrial age revolution, it was still for the most part a fixed pi and in that fixed pi, if you got a bigger slice of it, I got a smaller slice of it. So it was a zero-sum game. When you create abundance like the intelligence abundance we're talking about, abundance just changes the entire framing. you getting a larger piece of the pie is not coming at my expense we just have to include all the people”
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“You know, I wouldn't disagree with you on the number of people, the fewer number of companies that are going to make an unbelievable amount of financial success out of AI. However, there is no known methodology to raise all boats in the world than technology. Technology has been the best equalizer in the history of mankind. Just think about infant mortality. Think about hunger. Think about clean water. Think about healthcare and the number of things we're able to cure. It is technology that's brought all that to most people in the world. There is probably no force in the world other than technology that has done that to so many people at such large scale. Is there inequity between the best healthcare and the lowest healthcare? The answer is yes. But as the healthcare of every living person on the planet,”
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“I think the societally, globally, I would say the largest bottleneck would be bringing the people who are left behind to some level of parity. There will always be gaps, but what's happening for the first time in human history, right? It's not even in technology history. In human history, is next to air, water, shelter, food, electricity becomes almost a necessity for a young kid being born today to have a decent modern life in this digital world. And the significant swaths of this world that don't have access or affordability to that power. And I think when we look five years from now, the need to bring that level of access and affordability is going to be super important.”
2026-06-29 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source