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Retired robotaxi batteries return as grid storage

development2026-06-05

Claim

Waymo is resurrecting retired robotaxi batteries as hundreds of megawatts of storage on the very California and Texas grids its fleet charges from, while a datacenter developer halved a 40,000-acre Utah project after a backlash over a wildlife refuge.

Reported metric: hundreds of MW

Reporting date: 2026-06-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 5, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to June 5, 2026

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Waymo

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Welcome to June 5, 2026

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Retired robotaxi batteries return as grid storage
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-06-05
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-05-retired-robotaxi-batteries-become-grid-storage
Claim: Waymo is resurrecting retired robotaxi batteries as hundreds of megawatts of storage on the very California and Texas grids its fleet charges from, while a datacenter developer halved a 40,000-acre Utah project after a backlash over a wildlife refuge.
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- Welcome to June 5, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-5-2026
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