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Redwood Materials launches energy storage business and its first target is AI data centers
Redwood Materials has launched a new business — taking old EV batteries to store energy and help power businesses.
Tucked between two massive buildings in the hills of the Nevada desert, 805 retired EV batteries lie in a neat formation, each one wrapped in a nondescript white tarps — and hiding in plain sight. A passerby might not realize that it’s the largest microgrid in North America, that it’s powering a 2,000 GPU modular data center for AI infrastructure company Crusoe, or that it is Redwood Materials co-founder and CEO JB Straubel’s next big act. It’s footprint has grown too, and well beyond its Carson City, Nevada headquarters as it locked up deals with Toyota, Panasonic, and GM, started construction on a South Carolina factory, and made an acquisition in Europe.
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