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Vincent
@WhiteCollarExit
Analyst @MilkRoadAI | Finding opportunities across the AI value chain
Joined February 2022
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$BE's 40% faster installs got the headlines, while the real story is the deployment ceiling it removes. (Save this) Bloom announced Power Connect, which moves the wiring & testing off the construction site and into its factories, so modules arrive close to plug and play. Historically about 60% of the total installation cost was site construction requiring multiple specialized trades. That works fine for a 1 MW project. It does not work anymore in an AI world where Bloom is installing hundreds of MWs (see image below). You cannot scale skilled electricians that easily, so field labor becomes the constraint on deployment. Power Connect moves that constraint into Bloom's own factory, where it controls the process. Three things improve: Speed, which is the entire Bloom value proposition since it competes on time-to-power not price. Scalability, because a standardized factory process replicates across hundreds of MW in a way on-site construction never could. That matters if Morgan Stanley is anywhere close with its 5-8 GW Bloom deployment assumption thorough 2028. Margins, since factory labor is more predictable than field construction, with fewer weather delays, local contractor variables etc. Once again, very bullish news around $BE Details like this rarely make headlines, and digging them out is the whole job inside Milk Road PRO. The price rises Aug. 26, so lock in today's rate for life before then:
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