Redwood Materials
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026 adds Redwood Materials as Crusoe’s partner for second-life EV batteries in solar-plus-battery AI data centers. The source emphasizes battery systems as a way to smooth large GPU-cluster power fluctuations, not only as off-grid startup capacity.
Redwood Materials appears in A recycling startup joins the AI boom as an electric vehicle battery recycling startup that has expanded into grid energy storage for data centers. The Marketplace Tech episode uses Redwood to show how the AI infrastructure boom can create demand for Second-Life EV Battery Storage as a faster route around slow grid interconnection or new natural-gas turbine construction.
The source’s concrete example is Redwood’s Nevada project: a 60 megawatt-hour, 12 megawatt system of reused EV batteries powering a local data center while disconnected from the grid. Colin Campbell, Redwood’s chief technology officer, says the project took four months to build and that Redwood is engineering a possible 10 gigawatt-per-year manufacturing line.
Connections
- Colin Campbell - Redwood CTO explaining the battery-storage and production-engineering work.
- Nvidia - investor named in the episode as accelerating Redwood’s data-center storage effort.
- Second-Life EV Battery Storage and Battery Recycling Loop - main battery reuse and recycling concepts.
- Data Center Power Bottleneck, AI Energy Bottleneck, and Data Center Onsite Power - infrastructure constraints Redwood is positioned to address.
- AI Compute Continuity and Data Center Physical Resilience - downstream reliability frames affected by off-grid or near-site battery power.
- Nevada - source case location for the reused-battery data-center project.
- Crusoe and Energy-First Neocloud - AI cloud operating-demand branch added by All-In.