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are trying to tap as much power as possible while they face pushback from communities worried about downstream effects like higher electricity bills.

And last year, Redwood successfully activated a large-scale EV battery grid in Nevada specifically to power a local data center.

We'll be right back.

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We're back with my tour of Redwood Materials in San Francisco.

Larger data centers need much more than just 12 megawatts, but NVIDIA, the multi-trillion dollar chipmaker, recently invested into Redwood to help accelerate their work.

So does this business model work without this surge of demand from AI data centers?

And tomorrow, we'll wrap up our AI series with a conversation about the long view of tech booms and busts.

Maria Hollenhorst and Daniel Shin produced this episode.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino, and that's Marketplace Tech.

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