--- description: Find out why Bloom Energy Server is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. title: Bloom Energy Server: The Best Inventions of 2025 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd3314277ed46e51/6998ca77d32e938edbcd7665/bloom-energy-server-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 09, 2025 # Bloom Energy Server Providing reliable power by [Micheline Maynard](/author/micheline-maynard/) ## Micheline Maynard Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Courtesy Bloom Energy The growth of AI and data centers creates enormous loads on energy grids, sometimes causing unpredictable outages. Bloom Energy has developed onsite power systems to provide 24/7 reliability. Their fuel cells convert natural gas, bio-gas, or hydrogen into electricity, without combustion, resulting in no or limited CO2 emissions. Rather than precious metals often used in fuel cells, Bloom Energy Server uses ceramic material. It offers generators ranging from 200 kilowatts to hundreds of megawatts, and the systems can be grouped. Customers include Home Depot, Stop & Shop, Honda, and FedEx, and it announced a 1 gigawatt partnership with the utility provider American Electric Power in November 2024. **Correction, Oct. 13** _The original version of this story misstated the upper limit of Bloom Energy's generators. They go up to hundreds of megawatts, not 20 megawatts._ These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318341/bloom-energy-server/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318341/bloom-energy-server/"},"headline":"Bloom Energy Server","datePublished":"2025-10-09T11:00:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:51.117Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318341/bloom-energy-server/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","Best Inventions 2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd3314277ed46e51/6998ca77d32e938edbcd7665/bloom-energy-server-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Micheline Maynard","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/micheline-maynard/"}],"creator":"Micheline Maynard","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd3314277ed46e51/6998ca77d32e938edbcd7665/bloom-energy-server-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318341/bloom-energy-server/","name":"Bloom Energy Server"}}]}] ```