{"id":680257,"date":"2025-07-17T01:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gm-teams-up-with-redwood-materials-to-power-data-centers-with-ev-batteries\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T01:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:25:14","slug":"gm-teams-up-with-redwood-materials-to-power-data-centers-with-ev-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gm-teams-up-with-redwood-materials-to-power-data-centers-with-ev-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"GM teams up with Redwood Materials to power data centers with EV batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GM is sending new and old EV batteries to recycler Redwood Materials, which then repurposes the packs for stationary energy storage, the two companies announced today.<\/p>\n

Second-life batteries from GM have already made their way through Redwood\u2019s process and into a 12 megawatt microgrid at the company\u2019s Sparks, Nevada, headquarters. Electricity from that installation then flows to a nearby 2,000 GPU data center owned by Crusoe.<\/p>\n

The microgrid is part of Redwood\u2019s new energy storage division that launched publicly in June and focuses on repurposing EV batteries for grid-scale energy storage. Through testing, the company found that many of the cells which arrived at its facilities still had a good amount of life left in them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rather than recycle the embedded materials, the company kept the packs intact, then connected them to create a large energy storage system that can store excess electricity, often generated by solar and wind, for later use. The batteries for the Crusoe project are fed by solar panels.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this has the potential to grow faster than the core recycling business,\u201d Redwood co-founder and CEO JB Straubel said at the time. Redwood already recovers around 70% of all used or discarded batteries in the U.S. The company plans to deploy 20 gigawatt-hours of energy storage by 2028.<\/p>\n

Redwood isn\u2019t the only company following that playbook, though its ability to integrate a variety of packs \u2014 from different manufacturers and chemistries \u2014 could give it an edge over competitors. <\/p>\n

Both GM and Redwood have an existing agreement, but the new collaboration marks an expansion.<\/p>\n

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One notable detail: GM\u2019s willingness to supply Redwood with new batteries, not just old ones, gives it a hedge against uneven growth in EV sales. New sales dipped 6.3% in the second quarter of this year, according<\/a> to Cox Automotive, though they\u2019re expected to surge before tax credits are phased out September 30.<\/p>\n

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