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TIL why Bloom Energy's CEO KR Sridhar says one giant turbine is the wrong way to power an AI data center — it's the same single-supplier trap that nearly buried a hypermarket project I worked on

TL;DR: A $93 billion energy company built its entire architecture around never having one point of failure. Most of the AI buildout skipped that memo. KR Sridhar didn't land on modular redundancy because Bloom has some enlightened founder philosophy about resilience. He landed on it because a singl…

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  1. 2026-09-18 11:25 · r/artificial
    TIL why Bloom Energy's CEO KR Sridhar says one giant turbine is the wrong way to power an AI data center — it's the same single-supplier trap that nearly buried a hypermarket project I worked on

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