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What You Should Know

Bloom Energy designs and manufactures solid-oxide fuel-cell systems (Bloom Energy Server) for distributed on-site power generation across data centers, hospitals, manufacturing, retail, and utility customers, plus solid-oxide electrolyzer systems for green-hydrogen production. The customer list is broad and increasingly weighted toward data-center customers driven by AI compute power demand. The clean-energy business is unambiguously permissible at the activity level. The Sharia consideration is the financial screen. Bloom Energy has historically operated at a loss and the balance sheet carries convertible notes and term-loan debt; the debt-to-market-cap ratio has at times sat above the 33% Sharia threshold, although the AI-data-center demand cycle has lifted the market cap and pushed the ratio more favorably. Muslim investors should verify the current ratio and review the convertible-note structure at their preferred screening platform. The qualitative screen passes cleanly across major Sharia advisory boards.