US Company “Redwood MaterialsRedwood Materials, managed by Tesla’s co -founder JB Strabel, has launched an ieresting way to deal with two major global challenges by launching a new business: electric car waste and the unstoppable thirst for artificial ielligence for energy.
Redwood Materials, one of the largest battery recycling in the United States, officially launched its new business line, Redwood Energy. Instead of recycling electric car batteries, this new part first uses them to build large -scale energy storage systems to extract maximum energy from the remaining years of these batteries.
Providing artificial ielligence datasers with recycled batteries
The company’s first project, a 2 -megawatthah It makes it one of the largest energy storage systems from second -hand batteries in the US. This micro -network, an artificial ielligence data ceer with 6,000 graphics processors (GPU) by the company Cruso (Crusoe) It is made in its vicinity. The data ceer receives more than 5 % of its energy from this clean source.
According to the Iernational Energy Agency’s report, the power consumption of data ceers due to explosive growth of artificial ielligence may double up by year 2. This has put iense pressure on existing power grids and has raised environmeal concerns. Redwood’s solution has several key advaages:
- Speed and Cost: Making these micro -networks is much faster and is significaly cheaper than building new power plas because of the use of second -hand batteries.
- Reduce pressure on public network: With the supply of electricity locally and independely, there is no pressure on the city’s main infrastructure.
- Reduce carbon emissions: A study shows that using this method can be up to 2 million tons Preve carbon dioxide release.
Redwood Materials estimates that only this year, more than 1,000 electric cars In the US, they will be out of order, providing a huge source of usable batteries. The company currely has the battery to be able to One gigawat Build a micro -network (equivale to one million home for one hour) and design systems 5 times larger Of the curre project.
