Future Spaces

☀️ I brainstormed a tagline for our latest investment, Ambrosia Energy: "Sweet, sweet nectar of the sun gods!" The endgame for datacenter power is solar, but it’s held back by storage and installation costs. Ambrosia is optimizing solar + storage as a service: $100/MWh at 99.9% uptime, 100% renewable, installed within a year. The goal is to be the cheapest source of 24/7 off-grid power in the U.S., and built faster than a gas-powered plant, to gigawatt scale. One key insight: solar panel and LFP battery cell costs have fallen so dramatically that raw hardware is now only 10% of total system cost. Ambrosia is redesigning everything else, until the 10% flips to 90% of the total... affording a 9x cost advantage. Another: with Starlink, data centers can be anywhere there’s energy. With off-grid solar, that energy can be anywhere, relaxing the constraints of geography. TC: “A power plant should be able to be built at any scale in 12 months from contract signing to power on,” Sara Spangelo, co-founder and president of Ambrosia Energy, exclusively told TechCrunch. If Ambrosia can deliver at scale, the startup could upend the energy world. Today, a new combined cycle gas turbine — the most efficient type — costs around $107 per megawatt-hour to build and operate. That’s if you can get one — gas turbines currently have a five- to seven-year backlog [and grid connections can take 4-7 years]. “We’re also way more reliable than gas,” Spangelo said.” — techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/wh… • Company: @AmbrosiaEnergy --> Ambrosia.Energy • Now hiring in Austin & Redwood City: ambrosia.energy/team