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Image Credits:Ambrosia Energy12:51 PM PDT · October 14, 2026
Ambrosia Energy has begun enactment connected a massive, 10 gigawatt-hour artillery mill adjacent Austin, Texas, co-founder and CEO Ben Longmier announced connected signifier Tuesday astatine TechCrunch Disrupt successful San Francisco.
“That allows america to physique astir a 300 megawatt powerfulness works per twelvemonth retired astatine our tract sites,” helium said.
The mill volition inhabit 150,000 quadrate feet, and Longmier said that Ambrosia plans to scope afloat accumulation successful 2 to 3 years.
The startup emerged from stealth successful June to physique powerfulness plants for information centers astatine a outgo of $100 per megawatt hour. Longmier and his co-founder, Sara Spangelo had settled connected star positive batteries arsenic the cheapest enactment that’s the fastest to deploy. Solar panels powerfulness the load during the time and complaint the batteries, which discharge astatine nighttime and connected cloudy days to support the information halfway operating circular the clock.
Longmier and Spangelo antecedently founded the outer constellation startup Swarm, which they sold to SpaceX.
Ambrosia is besides opening enactment connected its archetypal commercialized powerfulness works successful West Texas aboriginal this year, Longmier said. The installation volition brace 300 megawatts of star panels with 660 megawatt-hours of batteries to present 30 megawatts of continuous power, with a extremity of 99.3% uptime.
Even with “overbuilding” star and batteries to present continuous uptime, Longmier said the institution tin beryllium profitable astatine $100 per megawatt-hour, making it competitory with earthy state turbines that many hyperscalers are readying to use to powerfulness their information centers.
Sections of Ambrosia’s archetypal pilot-scale powerfulness works person been operating continuously for much than 100 days, Longmier said. The aviator is susceptible of generating 200 kilowatts of energy 24/7.
To deed its outgo targets, Ambrosia has been uncovering ways to simplify its components, including star mounts and artillery packs. By reducing portion counts, and manufacturing galore components successful a factory, the startup has been capable to trim costs comparative to buying from extracurricular suppliers.
“We bargain existing cells and we marque our ain battalion in-house, and it has the fewest parts by a origin of astir 100 compared to immoderate different rival we’ve seen,” Longmier said. ”We’ve been capable to get to astir 1.3x the outgo of the bare compartment compared to astir a 5- oregon 7x for astir stationary retention systems.”
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