US electric truck firm Workhorse Group is looking to move into the data center space and offer its own containerized pods.
The Nasdaq-listed firm this week announced its intent to move into data centers and offer a turnkey, compute-ready, containerized mobile AI data center designed to “meet the localized mobile AI infrastructure needs of distributed deployment applications worldwide.”
– Workhorse
“We believe this expansion into a new, growing segment is a strategic step that builds on the broader capabilities we now have as a result of the merger late last year, and it supports our expanded company vision to build the ‘new’ Workhorse as an industrial technology company. Workhorse already builds highly reliable mobile platforms: electric medium-duty commercial vehicles manufactured at our commercial-scale plant in Union City, Indiana,” said Scott Griffith, CEO of Workhorse. “We feel that this is an opportunity to build a competitive advantage and develop a new revenue stream in this exciting new category where we can leverage many of our existing core capabilities to establish a scalable early mover position in the mobile AI data center market.”
The new containerized pod is still in development but aims to leverage Workhorse’s existing engineering, software, testing, agile design and supply-chain capabilities. The firm also promoted potential cost synergies from manufacturing the data centers at its plant in Indiana.
