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Microsoft bets a carbon removal bake-off will help offset its skyrocketing AI emissions
Microsoft is buying 10,000 tons of carbon credits from Deep Sky, a direct air capture developer.
To speed things along, Microsoft announced today that, along with the Royal Bank of Canada, it’s pre-purchasing 10,000 metric tons of carbon over 10 years from Deep Sky, a DAC project developer. Unlike other DAC projects, which focus on one technology, Deep Sky is hosting a bake-off of sorts, welcoming eight different startups to its site in Alberta, Canada, to see which one can do it best. Deep Sky told Bloomberg that the project should be up and running by April and that Microsoft and RBC will start receiving carbon credits by June.
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