{"id":308661,"date":"2026-01-28T21:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308661\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:14:06","slug":"google-is-backing-a-tesla-founders-push-to-power-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308661\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is backing a Tesla founder\u2019s push to power AI data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Jan. 28, 2026 at 1:05\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">Redwood Materials, a battery-recycling company launched by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, has secured a new high-profile investor as it seeks to meet the growing demand for energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">The Carson City, Nevada-based company on Wednesday said it has <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redwoodmaterials.com\/news\/redwood-materials-announces-final-close-of-425m-series-e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\">completed <\/a>its Series E funding round, which is now valued at $425 million after participation from Alphabet-owned Google <a data-type=\"phrase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/stock\/googl\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GOOGL<\/a> and other backers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Jan. 28, 2026 at 1:05\u202fp.m. ET Redwood Materials, a battery-recycling company launched by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,12007,44281,289,83888,290,28415,151191,79,82632,41573,102203,82630,82648,41570,13782,41560,41565,986,102191,12546,18,7520,41571,41567,41579,65950,19,41586,17,14965,44280,105103,827,26243,82,13670,64639],"class_list":{"0":"post-308661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","10":"tag-alternative-fuel-vehicles","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-automotive","15":"tag-battery-recycling-services","16":"tag-business","17":"tag-business-consumer-services","18":"tag-ce-industry-news-filter","19":"tag-colocation-services","20":"tag-computer-services","21":"tag-consumer-services","22":"tag-content-types","23":"tag-corporate","24":"tag-corporate-funding","25":"tag-corporate-industrial-news","26":"tag-data-centers","27":"tag-data-centers-colocation-services","28":"tag-data-services","29":"tag-eire","30":"tag-energy","31":"tag-factiva-filters","32":"tag-funding-rounds","33":"tag-gcapi","34":"tag-googl","35":"tag-ie","36":"tag-industrial-news","37":"tag-ireland","38":"tag-manufacturing","39":"tag-motor-vehicles","40":"tag-renewable-energy-generation","41":"tag-services","42":"tag-synd","43":"tag-technology","44":"tag-tesla-inc","45":"tag-tsla"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}