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Kann: Microsoft and Frontier dominate virtually all carbon removal purchases
“If you just look at, like, overall
Tons purchased in the CDR market.
It's basically Microsoft, followed by, like, an order of magnitude lower frontier, which is the Stripe Coalition, followed by a bunch of little minnows, you know, in, in relative terms.”
Janus: Microsoft's energy demand grew from hundreds of megawatts to gigawatts
“Over that decade, we had gone from a baseline of, you know, a couple hundred megawatts, and we were growing at a relatively rapid pace, but that's also kind of a small denominator. So the incremental tranches every year that we had to go procure were measured …”
Shayle Kann says Frontier, Microsoft, and Shopify dominate durable carbon removal
“Though there is a growing buyer pool, it's really still predominantly dominated by a small number of companies that are procuring in part, not just for their own benefit, but trying to foster an ecosystem and support the development of the industry, right? So …”
McAvoy: Meta, Oracle, and Microsoft are building in-house energy teams
“And especially, like, you know, even the likes of, like, Meta and, you know, you have your Oracles of the World and your Microsofts and, you know, everyone else who are trying to build, build, build, build these out. They're investing even in their own teams. …”
Microsoft AI screened 32 million battery electrolyte candidates down to 100
“What you're referring to is a project where AI was leveraged by our research teams to screen over thirty-two million candidates for a new electrolyte for advanced batteries. Thanks to AI inference, you know, the R&D scientists were able to go from that number …”
Lubershane: Microsoft is by far the largest carbon removal buyer
“Microsoft has a really strong internal team doing that too. And they're the single single largest carbon removal buyer at this point by, I think quite a margin.”
Belady: Microsoft Implemented Data Center Designs Boosting Pollinator Habitats
“And to Microsoft's credit, we did implement this where the data centers are being looked at to try to see how can we change the design so that we increase pollinators and habitat for pollinators so the fields around it get, have healthier yield”