Fast, modular, and solar-powered: a better way to build data centers

Last year, Redwood Materials and data center company Crusoe partnered on a first-of-a-kind solar microgrid with secondhand EV batteries. Now, with proof that it works, they’re expanding.

[Photo: Crusoe/Redwood Materials]

A little less than eight months ago, Crusoe and Redwood Materials launched a new kind of project: a modular data center powered by solar panels and repurposed EV batteries.

Now they have data showing it works—and they’re scaling up. Over the months that the solar microgrid has been in use, it’s run 99.2% of the time, outperforming the companies’ targets. And unlike other data centers that rely on fossil fuels, this one uses only clean power.

It’s very different from the........

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