As artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasingly incorporated into several industrial segments, the importance of efficient energy distribution has grown so much more crucial. To contribute to the solution of that problem, C3 AI and Bloom Energy have recently come up with their new collaboration to respond to that concern by leveraging AI to optimize the use of Bloom’s distributed energy generation.
Tom Siebel, the chief executive officer of C3 AI, cited how much of the promise of generative AI there is in such areas as energy and defense.
“Generative AI changes everything,” said Siebel recently in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “We’re applying generative AI today in defense, in intelligence, in power, in power distribution, utilities.”
The partnership will leverage C3 AI’s technology to analyze data from Bloom Energy’s fuel cell networks, with the goal of enhancing efficiency and longevity. As KR Sridhar, Bloom’s CEO, explained in the same interview: “We can take those billion data points from all the digital twins and optimize it better.”
However, Siebel also sounded a warning about the AI capabilities of adversaries like China.
“Be afraid, these people are competent, they’re well-financed…pure evil exists, and these people plan on dominating us in AI, in chips, in cyber,” stated the C3 AI CEO. He positioned the partnership as supporting U.S. national defense interests.
Sridhar highlighted the scalability of Bloom’s distributed energy model compared to centralized power plants, noting: “The future of electricity is going to be a lot of distributed generation.” By combining AI with energy infrastructure, the companies aim to provide cleaner, more reliable electricity for customers.
As much as AI is advancing, such innovative collaborations as that between C3 AI and Bloom Energy could well go a long way in indicating the way forward towards a smarter, greener energy future and increased national security.
