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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

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MARCH 1, 2023

The related storage and computing operations rely on massive data centers around the world that are packed with computers that chug energy 24 hours a day. Both businesses need low-carbon steel and concrete as they build out data centers or corporate office buildings. Here are the areas of focus for the businesses.

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How the Pacific Northwest is playing a key role in the burgeoning world of carbon capture tech

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APRIL 20, 2021

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory chemical engineer Dushyant Barpagaare is using a laboratory continuous flow system to study solvents that can capture carbon from the air. The CO2 then needs to be stored, most likely in an underground, geologic storage site, or ideally put to another industrial use that keeps it out of the atmosphere.

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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

How the Pacific Northwest is playing a key role in the burgeoning world of carbon capture tech

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