LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — General Motors Co. is developing a lower-cost battery chemistry to store energy for the data centers fueling the artificial intelligence boom, the automaker said Tuesday. It’s the latest push to grow a battery business beyond electric vehicles.
GM engineers are working on sodium-ion battery cells at the company’s Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center in Warren, a Detroit suburb, in partnership with Peak Energy, a Colorado-based energy storage startup, and backed by an investment from GM’s venture arm, GM Ventures.
The move positions GM to compete in grid-scale energy storage, a fast-growing market as demand for AI computing grows. Energy storage systems function as power banks for heavy electricity users, such as data centers. The facilities charge when demand is low and discharge when it spikes…