{"id":38715,"date":"2025-07-17T01:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-used-ev-batteries-could-help-fuel-the-ai-boom\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T01:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:20:31","slug":"how-used-ev-batteries-could-help-fuel-the-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-used-ev-batteries-could-help-fuel-the-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"How used EV batteries could help fuel the AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Reno, Nevada<\/em> \u2014 In a field outside of Reno, Nevada, sit rows and rows of solar panels soaking up sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>Beside them are <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/electric-vehicle-batteries-may-have-a-new-source-material-used-tires\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">used electric vehicle batteries<\/a><\/span> under white plastic, whose job is to keep two data centers for Crusoe, an artificial intelligence cloud platform, running day and night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/environment-impact-generative-ai-artificial-intelligence\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">AI industry<\/a><\/span> is struggling with how to access more reliable power on a fast time scale,&#8221; Cully Cavness, co-founder, president and chief operating officer of Crusoe, told CBS News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That struggle is real. As the use of AI grows, a 2024 Department of Energy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/doe-releases-new-report-evaluating-increase-electricity-demand-data-centers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study<\/a> found that U.S. data centers could swallow up to 12% of all U.S. electricity use by\u202f2028, approximately triple today&#8217;s share.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas alone, developers have filed plans for more than 100 new gas-fired plants, mostly for servers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gas power is a great solution that data centers are turning to for speed, for speed to megawatts. This is an alternative way to accomplish that speed, but with a renewable power source,&#8221; said Cavness on why he believes that recycled EV batteries offer a solution that gas power does not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The recycled batteries powering Crusoe&#8217;s two data centers come from Nevada-based Redwood Materials. The company says it recovered more than 20 gigawatt hours of lithium-ion batteries in 2024, enough to power 250,000 new electric vehicles.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, General Motors <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gm.com\/home.detail.html\/Pages\/news\/us\/en\/2025\/jul\/0716-GM-Redwood-Materials-pursue-use-US-built-batteries-energy-storage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> a partnership to provide EV batteries to Redwood Materials. <\/p>\n<p>Engineer Colin\u202fCampbell, chief technology officer for Redwood Materials, hates to toss anything that can still work.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>&#8220;There&#8217;s really very little wrong with them,&#8221; Campbell said of the used batteries. &#8220;Like, maybe they have lost 20% of their capacity. Maybe your electric vehicle&#8217;s a little bit slower. And so that&#8217;s appropriate that you don&#8217;t want it in your car anymore. But it still works great. So we just looked at that and we were like, &#8216;Hey, why don&#8217;t we use it to store energy for the grid?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Redwood Materials engineers kept the system simple: no pipes and no pumps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>That&#8217;s been a fun engineering effort for the engineering team to make something that is robust, that is incredibly useful, but also very cheap and quick to put in the field,&#8221; Campbell said.<\/p>\n<p>The company is confident that if it works here in rural Nevada, it can clone the setup 100-fold.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/battery-recycling-redwood-materials-wins-2-billion-loan-from-energy-department\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">JB Straubel<\/a><\/span>, a former chief technology officer for Tesla who founded Redwood Materials in 2017, says the raw material is already rolling off America&#8217;s roads. <br \/><strong>\u00a0<br \/><\/strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s no practical limit that we see on how we can scale this,&#8221; Straubel told CBS News. &#8220;It&#8217;s one thing that makes us so excited. 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