Ambri, a battery system maker, has cut a deal with Terrascale, an official Partner of IBM, to provide a large scale battery plant for a data center project named Energos Reno An article by energy-storage.news described it as such
Terrascale describe the project, Energos Reno, as such
Co-founded by MIT materials chemistry professor Donald Sadoway and part-funded to get off the ground by Bill Gates, Ambri has designed a battery that uses a liquid calcium alloy anode, molten salt electrolyte and a cathode made of solid particles of antimony. The company claims this enables a low number of steps in the cell assembly process while the materials are low-cost. Ambri also integrates the batteries into a containerised energy storage system solution.
The Energos Reno development is centered around two key strategies. The first is the development of critical infrastructure (roadways and utilities) that meet the demands of digital data/technology, manufacturing, distribution and warehousing for the US supply chain. The second is the development of renewable power by expanding the existing solar and geothermal sources; along with, future development of other potential technologies under discussion.TerraScale is developing 3,700 acres of land near Fernley, NV in the Reno/Sparks Interstate I-80 corridor. Upon completion, Energos Reno will be the largest industrial / commercial / residential development in the US powered by hybrid renewable energy (geothermal, solar and other).
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Ambri's liquid metal battery to be used at desert data centre in Nevada
https://www.energy-storage.news/news/ambris-liquid-metal-battery-to-be-used-at-desert-data-centre-in-nevada
26 Nov 2020
Energos Reno
https://terrascale.org/projectenergos
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