Crusoe and Redwood Materials Unveil World’s Largest Second-Life Battery Deployment, Powering the Future of AI, with Repurposed EV Batteries

Texas Company Unveils Plans to Build World’s Largest Data Center Complex

A Texas company co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry says it will build “the world’s largest Artificial Intelligence complex” in a “first-of-its-kind, behind-the-meter ‘HyperGrid’ campus” near Amarillo. Dallas-based Fermi America on June 26 announced that it will formally begin work July 4 on a proposed 5,770-acre project that will house 18 million square feet of AI data center development to be fully operational by 2032. Workin…

Redwood Energy powers massive data center with used EV batteries in Nevada

Northern Nevada-based Redwood has built the world’s largest second-life battery deployment system for an AI company’s large-scale data center.

JB Straubel’s Redwood launches energy business focused on second-life EV batteries

Redwood Materials, the battery recycling firm founded by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, has launched a new venture called Redwood Energy. The business aims to repurpose used electric vehicle batteries into large-scale, low-cost energy storage systems. In a post on X, Redwood revealed that it has already deployed a 12 MW, 63 MWh microgrid powered entirely by second-life EV batteries. The system is currently powering a modular data center for Cruso…

Crusoe, Redwood Partner on Data Center Powered by Used Batteries

It’s the world largest deployment of batteries on their second life and shows the lengths cloud operators are going to find power.

Crusoe and Redwood Materials Unveil World’s Largest Second-Life Battery Deployment, Powering the Future of AI, with Repurposed EV Batteries

SPARKS, Nev., June 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crusoe, the industry’s first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, and Redwood, the leading...