Rimac Technology has signed a joint development agreement with Dubai-based ECOBLOX to fit its automotive battery modules and power electronics into modular AI data centres, and a demonstrator unit is due at the Rimac Campus in November.
Rimac’s car-grade battery technology is heading somewhere far less glamorous than a hypercar: the server room. Rimac Technology has signed a Joint Development Agreement with ECOBLOX, a Dubai-based AI infrastructure company. Together they will build a Modular Data Centre around Rimac’s batteries and power electronics.
The first finished unit should be installed at the Rimac Campus near Zagreb, Croatia, in November 2026. It will run as a live demonstrator for customers and partners.
Who Does What
The division of labour is fairly clear. Rimac Technology supplies its UNI battery modules and power electronics. ECOBLOX looks after the AI infrastructure, the modular architecture and design, and the integration of hardware and software.
Inside the unit, the Battery Management System sends live data into ECOBLOX’s Data Center Infrastructure Management platform. Operators get central monitoring, automated alarms and analytics from that link. Power conversion, UPS, precision cooling and IT hardware all sit within a single modular footprint.
Why AI Wants Car Batteries
AI and high-performance computing need ever more processing power. According to the two companies, energy supply, cooling capacity and physical space are becoming real limits on new data centres. Their answer is a compact, integrated unit built for high-density workloads.
Readers who follow EVs will recognise the voltage numbers. AI compute is moving towards 400V and 800V DC architectures, ground electric cars have covered for years. Rimac says more than a decade of high-voltage engineering carries straight across.
The UNI modules were developed to automotive standards and are produced in high volume. Rimac promotes them on power density, compact packaging, built-in safety and thermal management. They were already aimed at energy storage, marine, off-highway and industrial uses, and AI infrastructure now joins that list.
The Claims and the Proof
In practice, the batteries should make servicing easier and provide longer continuous backup power for critical computing hardware. ECOBLOX goes further. It says the integration removes grid constraints and lets customers deploy power-resilient AI clusters faster and more efficiently.
For now, those are the partners’ own claims. November’s demonstrator will be the first chance to see the system running outside a press release.
Meet ECOBLOX
ECOBLOX is an NVIDIA Preferred Partner and won NVIDIA’s 2026 “Star Performer” award for the Middle East and Africa. It sells end-to-end AI infrastructure, from factory-built modular data centres with air or liquid cooling to GPU cluster design, procurement, installation and managed services.
The company says customers can have compute running at local power sources within six to eight months. It operates across the Middle East, Europe and North America.
What It Means for Rimac
Rimac Technology is the Rimac Group’s Tier 1 supplier arm, and it employs more than 1,000 people in Croatia and the UK. It works with major carmakers. It also works with sister company Bugatti Rimac on selected programmes, including the Bugatti Tourbillon.
For us enthusiasts, the deal shows that much of Rimac’s business lies in the hardware underneath, not just the badge on the bonnet. If a battery module built for the car industry can also keep GPU clusters running, Rimac has found a new market for something it already makes at scale.
