Redwood Materials and Crusoe build largest second-life EV battery microgrid to power AI data centers
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Janet Harrison
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Redwood Materials and Crusoe Energy have built the world's largest second-life EV battery microgrid at Redwood's Sparks, Nevada facility. The 12 MW, 63 MWh system uses retired electric vehicle battery packs to power a 2,000-GPU modular AI data center with 99.2% uptime. This approach is cheaper than traditional battery storage and solves both the EV battery recycling problem and the growing energy demands of AI infrastructure. Automakers are now showing interest in the stationary storage market as this model proves viable.
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bskyRedwood Materials and Crusoe build largest second-life EV battery microgrid to power AI data centersstartupfortune.comKey quotes
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Old EV batteries are no longer just a recycling problem.
Automakers now want a piece of the same stationary storage market.
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