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Amazon teams up with Orbital to remove CO2 from the air at one of its data centers
The system should remove more carbon dioxide than the electricity used by the datacenter would produce.
But Amazon has partnered with Orbital, an AI startup, to test a new material that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — and they’re using an AWS datacenter as a first site. Datacenters seem an obvious place to deploy such a technology since their cooling systems move massive amounts of air to keep thousands of servers running at optimal temperatures. And if datacenters do end up capturing more carbon dioxide than they generate, Amazon and other companies can sell the credits themselves, turning the system into a profit center.
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