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Energy Vault and Crusoe partner to deploy Modular AI Data Centers in Texas – expanding Crusoe cloud capacity
Energy Vault Holdings and Crusoe have announced a strategic framework agreement to deploy Crusoe Spark modular AI factory units at Energy Vault’ s Snyder, Texas, technology center – supporting the expansion of Crusoe Cloud computing capacity.
The multi-year agreement enables phased deployments scalable up to 25 megawatts beginning in 2026, delivering modular powered shell infrastructure designed for rapid, repeatable highdensity compute integration.
Under the agreement, Energy Vault will provide critical energy infrastructure and its digital operating platform to accelerate time-to-capacity for Crusoe Cloud customers – including users of Crusoe’ s Managed Inference services.
The first deployment is planned at Energy Vault’ s solar generation and energy storage site in Snyder, creating a powered environment optimized for modular AI factory integration.
The partnership marks Energy Vault’ s entry into the AI infrastructure market, expanding its Asset Vault platform and build-own-operate strategy into a highgrowth segment.
AI infrastructure deployments are expected to generate revenue per megawatt up to 20 times higher than traditional battery energy storage system projects, supporting accelerated EBITDA growth through contracted cash flows and standardized modular design.
By combining Crusoe’ s vertically integrated Spark units with Energy Vault’ s mission-critical energy systems expertise, the companies aim to significantly reduce delivery timelines while maintaining high reliability. The modular deployment model addresses increasing constraints in power availability, interconnection timelines and electrical system complexity facing AI compute expansion.
Together, Energy Vault and Crusoe will leverage scalable energy-first infrastructure to meet accelerating enterprise demand for reliable, rapidly deployable AI computing capacity across distributed inference, on-premise deployments and grouped training clusters.
Aurora triples driverless trucking network to 10 routes and targets Sun Belt expansion
Aurora Innovation is tripling its driverless trucking network to 10 routes following its latest software release.
Auroa is also preparing to expand across the US Sun Belt and launch new customer endpoints in 2026.
The company also reported fourth quarter and full year 2025 results and expects to achieve positive free cash flow in 2028 with current liquidity.
The new release is Aurora’ s fourth since deploying driverless trucks in April 2025. It validates extended operations and enables the Aurora Driver to navigate the diverse geography and climate of the southern United States, home to more than half of the nation’ s population. Before launch, Aurora completed more than four million validation tests.
Phoenix lane, exceeding traditional Hours of Service limits.
Without mandatory rest breaks, the Aurora Driver can reduce transit times and improve asset utilization compared with single driver fleets.
Aurora is also accelerating direct to customer lanes using Verifiable AI powered mapping. After a single manual drive, cloud based systems generate semantic map components with minimal human input, significantly reducing route deployment time.
The expanded network now supports freight movement between Dallas and Houston, Fort Worth and El Paso, El Paso and Phoenix, Fort Worth and Phoenix and Dallas and Laredo – with additional customer facilities coming online this year.
Aurora reported fourth quarter and full year 2025 results and expects to achieve positive free cash flow in 2028 with current liquidity.
Driverless operations are now validated on the nearly 1,000-mile Fort Worth to
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