Ambrosia Energy starts a 10 GWh battery factory in Texas for off-grid data centers
A solar-plus-battery bid to compete with the gas turbines many data centers are planning to use.
Ambrosia Energy has begun work on a 150,000-square-foot, 10 gigawatt-hour battery factory near Austin, enough, CEO Ben Longmier said at TechCrunch Disrupt, to build about a 300 MW power plant a year. Full production is two to three years out. The startup, from the founders of satellite company Swarm, aims to power data centers with solar and batteries at $100 per megawatt-hour. Its first commercial plant in West Texas is planned to pair 300 MW of solar with 660 MWh of batteries to deliver 30 MW around the clock, targeting 99.3% uptime.
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Grid energy storage
After exploring Ambrosia Energy will build a 10 GWh factory in Texas to make batteries for off-grid data centers, the broader technology is Grid energy storage.
Large-scale storage connected to the power grid that holds excess electricity from sources like solar and releases it when needed.
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