Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell is the Redwood Materials chief technology officer interviewed in A recycling startup joins the AI boom. In the Marketplace Tech episode, he explains how reused EV battery packs can become grid-scale storage for data centers and why AI customers’ urgency changes the power-infrastructure market.
His contribution is to make Second-Life EV Battery Storage an operating claim rather than only a sustainability idea. Campbell points to Redwood’s Nevada project, says the local data center is disconnected from the grid, and frames battery storage paired with renewables as faster than some grid-interconnection or natural-gas turbine paths.
Connections
- Redwood Materials - company context.
- Second-Life EV Battery Storage - storage model Campbell explains.
- AI Energy Bottleneck and Data Center Power Bottleneck - constraints behind AI customer urgency.
- Data Center Onsite Power and AI Compute Continuity - infrastructure concepts extended by his example.
- Nvidia - investor named in the episode as accelerating Redwood’s work.