Bloom Energy announced a power capacity agreement with Intel Corporation that will result in Silicon Valley's fuel cell-powered high-performance computing data center. The agreement calls for the installation of additional megawatts (MW) of Bloom Energy's fuel cell-based Energy Server at Intel's existing high-performance computing data center in Santa Clara, CA. The additional capacity expands an existing Bloom Energy fuel cell installation already deployed at the tech giant's location since 2014.

The resulting installation will be the single largest fuel cell-powered high- performance computing data center in Silicon Valley. Bloom's fuel cell technology offers an ideal power solution for energy-intensive data centers that demand reliable electricity generation. Bloom's offerings can be deployed as Grid Parallel in conjunction with utility power to meet dual source energy needs of a Data Center or as Grid Independent by completely avoiding transmission infrastructure.

With the ability to operate in a fully islanded microgrid mode, Grid Independent configurations circumvent delays, costs, and constraints associated with grid-based power and can be deployed in weeks on a skid mounted, moveable platform. As the energy demands of data centers surge across the globe, Bloom Energy's fuel cells offer a proven solution. Rapidly deployable, on-site energy generation provides operators with the ability to scale to meet the future needs of ever-changing businesses.