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Bloom Energy$BE · filed: grew revenue 37.3% in FY2025 to $2.0BNew shipTrillion Score 607Fall Risk MediumNext year $2.2B–$2.9B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What Bloom Energy filed
Grew revenue 37.3% in FY2025 to $2.0 billion, operating margin 3.6% against a 5.2% median for electrical industrial apparatus, equity 17.5% of assets. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Bloom Energy’s card. New ship: no warning signs. Trillion Score 607, #1 of 11 in its field; Fall Risk Medium (how it is measured).
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2025-12-31 between $2.2B and $2.9B, an 80% range sealed on 24 Sept 2026 · receipt #184561 · graded in public by the revenue in Bloom Energy’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
Bloom's **$2.6B** Nebius deal signals AI operators now prioritize power speed-to-deploy over grid cost savings.
12%
Wednesday after signing a
$2.6 billion
multi-year agreement with Nebius
24 to 36 months
in most Western European jurisdictions
400 megawatts
of AI compute capacity by year-end 2026
Bloom Energy closed up 12% Wednesday after signing a $2.6 billion multi-year agreement with Nebius, the Amsterdam-based AI infrastructure operator spun out of Yandex's European assets. The contract calls for Bloom's solid oxide fuel cells to provide on-site power generation at Nebius data centers across European markets, sidestepping grid interconnection queues that now stretch 24 to 36 months in most Western European jurisdictions.
Nebius, which opened its first AI-optimized facility in Finland last quarter, operates three data centers with another four in development across Nordic and Central European locations. The company's infrastructure supports large language model training and inference workloads for clients that include two undisclosed Tier-1 cloud providers and at least one European automotive manufacturer running proprietary AI models. Bloom's fuel cells will run on natural gas or biogas, generating electricity at the point of use rather than drawing from regional grids already constrained by industrial electrification and legacy coal retirements.
The math clarifies the urgency. Nebius expects to deploy 400 megawatts of AI compute capacity by year-end 2026, up from 60 megawatts operational today. Each megawatt of AI infrastructure requires roughly 1.2 megawatts of reliable power after accounting for cooling and redundancy. European grid operators in Germany, Poland, and Sweden have told data center developers that new connections above 50 megawatts now require environmental impact reviews and multi-stakeholder approvals, adding 18 to 30 months to timelines. Bloom's fuel cells install in 90 to 120 days and operate independently of utility dispatch, a feature that matters when training runs cost $80,000 per hour and cannot tolerate voltage sag or forced curtailments.
This is the second distributed generation contract Bloom has closed in the AI infrastructure vertical since October. The company announced a $1.2 billion deal with an undisclosed hyperscaler in November, suggesting that data center operators are now modeling power procurement as the primary schedule risk, not chip supply or facility construction. Bloom's revenue backlog stood at $3.8 billion at the end of Q3, up 47% year-over-year. The Nebius contract pushes that figure above $6 billion, roughly 2.1 times trailing twelve-month revenue.
Operators should track Bloom's ability to scale manufacturing beyond its current 600 megawatts of annual production capacity. The company has said it will add a second Delaware manufacturing line in Q2 2025, lifting capacity to 900 megawatts, but the Nebius and November contracts alone imply 500+ megawatts of annual deployments through 2027. Watch for CapEx guidance on the February earnings call and for permit filings in Nordic jurisdictions where Nebius is concentrating near-term builds. Separately, European natural gas forward curves show summer 2025 prices at €35 per megawatt-hour, down from €45 in early December, improving the fuel-cost economics for distributed generation relative to grid power. Bloom's contracts typically include fuel-cost pass-throughs, but lower baseline gas prices tighten the arbitrage that makes on-site generation attractive.
Nebius has now committed 68% of its planned 2026 power capacity to Bloom's technology, a concentration that removes optionality but locks in delivery schedules. The contract includes performance guarantees tied to uptime above 98.5%, standard for mission-critical AI workloads where revenue penalties for downtime exceed $200,000 per incident.
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Bloom backlog now 2.1x TTM revenue; manufacturing scale and uptime guarantees are the operational tells for sector-wide power constraint severity.
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Named account holds Bloom via energy transition sleeve; Nebius contract validates thesis that AI power is capacity game, not efficiency game—maintain position.
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