Bloom Energy reached a power capacity agreement with Intel Corporation that will result in Silicon Valley’s largest fuel cell-powered high-performance computing data center.
The agreement calls for the installation of additional megawatts of Bloom Energy’s fuel cell-based Energy Server at Intel’s existing computing data center in Santa Clara, CA.
The additional capacity expands an existing Bloom Energy fuel cell installation that has been operating at the company’s location since 2014.
“Bloom Energy is proud to be a long-term supplier to Intel and to support the company’s data center capacity building at a time when the grid is severely constrained,” said Ravi Prasher, Bloom Energy’s chief technology officer. “Bloom Energy technology is compatible with hydrogen fuel in addition to natural gas. We are working with governments and industries to adopt hydrogen as a primary fuel when it becomes economically viable. Intel’s confidence in our fuel cell technology is a testament to Bloom’s ability to reliably meet the energy needs of cutting edge and high-performance IT infrastructure.”
“Intel is leading the industry in extreme energy-efficient high-performance computing data centers with existing hyperscale Intel Santa Clara Data Center operating at 1.06 PUE, enabling the HPC scale needed for complex Intel chip design and technology development,” said Shesha Krishnapura, Intel IT chief technology officer.
Bloom is based in San Jose, CA and operates a production site in Newark.
