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Microsoft's BTG Pactual transaction is the world's largest carbon removal deal
“BTG is a really exciting one. You know, this is the world's largest carbon removal deal out there.”
Brose: Microsoft carbon removal project burned in Bootleg Fire
“And one of the projects that we purchased from in 2020 burned in the bootleg fire, and so that risk went from a theoretical number on a page, you know, two percent risk of reversal over the project lifetime to, well, it happened, and was that reversal risk the…”
Microsoft's 2020 carbon removal goals exceeded the entire global market size
“We knew at that time that the market was only in the couple millions of tons annually, and Microsoft schools were several times greater than that, and so for there to be a vibrant market where Microsoft is only buying a share of it, the car removal market need…”
BTG Pactual has raised over $500 million for its reforestation fund
“We're in a pay-go relationship with them where we'll buy the credits as they sell them to us, and they're, they've raised, you know, well over half of their billion dollar fund, and on the timber side, they're working with best-in-class FSE standards.”
Microsoft contracted 2.7M tons of carbon removal from Ørsted over 11 years
“Microsoft made a deal with Orsted to purchase 2.7 million tons of carbon removal over an 11 year period from a bioenergy carbon capture and storage plant.”
Janus: Big tech hyperscalers grew from hundreds of megawatts to gigawatts by 2020
“Early in the two, you know, 2010 time frame, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, you know, they maybe all had a few hundred megawatts of data center capacity. Well, now you get to the end of that decade, now they're all sitting on a few gigawatts of capacity”