Reno, Nevada – Reno, in an area outside Nevada, soaking rows and rows of solar panels in the sun.
Are next to them Electric vehicle battery used Under white plastic, whose job is to have two data centers for Cruce, which is an artificial intelligence cloud platform, which is going on day and night.
“Whole AI industry CBS News Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Koli Cavnes, Co-Founder, Co-Founder, Co-Founder, “Quli Cavnes,” Cully Cavnes, is struggling to use more reliable power with “Quli Caven,”.
That struggle is real. As the use of AI increases, 2024 energy department Study It was found that the US data center can swallow up to 12% of all American power use by 2028, about today’s about triple today.
In Texas alone, the developers have filed plans for plants made of more than 100 new gas, mostly for the server.
“Gas power is a great solution that is changing for data center speed, for the speed of the megawatt. This is an alternative way to meet that speed, but with an renewable power source,” Caven said why he believes that recycled EV battery provides a solution that does not power.
The recycled battery that power centers of Cruso comes from the Nevada-based redwood material. The company said that it recovered more than 20 gigawatts of lithium-ion battery in 2024 in 2024, which is sufficient to provide electricity to 250,000 new electric vehicles.
On Wednesday, General Motors Announced A partnership to provide EV battery to redwood material.
Engineer Colin Campbell, Chief Technology Officer for Redwood materials, hates tossing anything that can still work.
“Really less wrong with them,” Campbell said about the battery used. “Like, perhaps they have lost 20% of their ability. Maybe your electric vehicle slows down. And so it is appropriate that you don’t want it in your car. But it still works very well. So we just focus on it and we were liking, ‘Hey, why don’t we use it to store energy for grid?”
Redwood material engineers kept the system simple: no pipes and no pumps.
,This has been a fun engineering effort for the engineering team that is something strong, it is incredibly useful, but also very cheap and hurry to put in the ground, “Campbell said.
The company is confident that if it works here in Rural Nevada, it can clone the setup 100 times.
JB StrabelA former Chief Technology Officer for Tesla, who founded the redwood material in 2017, stated that the raw material is already getting out of the US roads.
“There is no practical limit that we see how we can scale it,” Strabel told CBS News. “This is something that excite us very much. It is very modular.”
Strebel argued that it also sidelines the most dirty part of AI Boom.
,This is a different way to give strength to the AI revolution, “Strabel said.” We are showing, you know that AI does not have to be in conflict with the current grid. ,
