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Ford pivots its Kentucky battery plant from EVs to AI data centre storage in a $2 billion bet

TL;DR

Ford has launched Ford Energy, a $2 billion subsidiary that will manufacture grid-scale battery storage systems for data centres and utilities using CATL-licensed LFP technology at a repurposed Kentucky plant. It has already signed a five-year deal with EDF Power Solutions for up to 20 GWh.

Ford has launched Ford Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary that will manufacture large-scale battery energy storage systems for utilities, data centres, and industrial customers. The company has committed roughly $2 billion to the operation, which repurposes a Kentucky plant originally built for electric vehicle batteries.

The subsidiary is led by Lisa Drake, who reports directly to Ford vice chair John Lawler. It marks the clearest signal yet that Detroit’s legacy automakers see more immediate profit in powering the AI infrastructure boom than in making the cars that were supposed to justify their battery investments.

What Ford Energy builds

The flagship product is the...

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Data primacy at Everpure - the questions buyers will ask, put to the people selling it

Earlier this week I covered the data primacy thesis Everpure unveiled at its annual Accelerate event, and the CEO point of view in which Charlie Giancarlo set out what it takes to invert an enterprise's architecture - applications pushed downstream, data brought to the centre. Both pieces outline

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Exploring Lakehouse//RT and Reyden: Can Databricks Handle FHIR Data at Scale?

by Nick Passero, Director AI Data & Analytics, Databricks Practice Lead and Balu Muthiah, Sr. Solutions Architect, AI Data Platforms At DAIS 2026, Databricks announced Lakehouse//RT, powered by Reyden, a ground-up engine rewrite and not an update to Photon. It runs against existing Delta and Iceberg tables without restructuring,

Google Has Discontinued The Nest Home Mini And Nest Audio

On to the next one. Nathan Ingraham for Engadget Google just introduced a new smart home speaker yesterday, but the arrival of a new product heralds the end of others. The company has confirmed that it will end production of the Nest Home Mini and Nest Audio. These Nest devices

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Valve is so behind on Steam Controller orders that some won’t ship until 2027

Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Valve has some good news and bad news about Steam Controllers. The good news: if you make a reservation for a Steam Controller, the company will now