Connect | London // DCD Talks frontier batteries for frontier compute with Jean De La Verpilliere | Echion Technologies

AI has outgrown the battery. Every cell in today’s data centres was designed for electric vehicles and grid storage, built to hold energy, not move power. But AI compute demands the opposite: megawatts in and out within seconds, thousands of times a day, in a shrinking footprint. Join Echion Technologies CEO Jean de la Verpilliere to explore why conventional lithium‑ion chemistries fail under this duty, how niobium‑oxide anodes enable true symmetric high‑rate cycling, and what this shift means for data‑centre design and specification as power smoothing becomes central to grid connection and operational resilience.