Ambrosia starts work on 10 GWh battery factory near Austin
The new plant is meant to supply Ambrosia’s first off-grid data center power project and support its move into manufacturing.
Ambrosia Energy has started building a 10 GWh battery factory near Austin, Texas, as it moves to manufacture the hardware it needs for solar-plus-storage power plants that can run data centers around the clock. CEO Ben Longmier said the plant will span 150,000 square feet, and the company expects to reach full output in two to three years. Ambrosia’s first commercial project, due later this year in West Texas, is designed around 300 MW of solar and 660 MWh of batteries to supply 30 MW of continuous power with a 99.3% uptime target. The startup says it can hit its $100 per megawatt-hour cost goal, and it is simplifying and making more of its own components in-house to cut parts and costs.
Why it matters
The factory gives Ambrosia more control over the batteries behind its planned data center power systems, which is important if it is going to scale from a first West Texas project to full production over the next two to three years. For customers and investors, the key change is that the company is trying to back its power plants with its own manufacturing capacity rather than relying entirely on outside suppliers, while also targeting profitability at $100 per megawatt-hour.
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Sources
- TechCrunch