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Data centers straining under artificial intelligence's surging electricity demands are turning to an unexpected backstop: retired electric vehicle battery packs.
Rather than routing spent EV cells to recycling facilities, operators are repurposing them as grid-buffering storage — a practice the industry calls second-life battery deployment — in an effort to absorb the power spikes that AI workloads generate around the clock.
Why AI Makes the Power Problem Different AI inference and training loads are not like conventional compute.
They draw electricity in dense, sustained bursts that stress utility interconnections in ways that standard enterprise workloads never did.
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