Facebook-parent company, Meta, have invested in low-carbon concrete in the US to give a cash injection and scale up production
The cash injection comes as an agreement with the company CarbonBuilt, and will lead to using more low-carbon concrete in Meta’s datacentres.
Meta’s investment will be used to upgrade two CarbonBuilt concrete plants in the US, one in Arizona and one in Alabama, and will scale production up.
CarbonBuilt’s low-carbon concrete is called Reversa
CarbonBuilt’s product, Reversa, is a low-carbon concrete made from low carbon materials that harden when reacting with CO2, further trapping the carbon emissions within the concrete.
According to CarbonBuilt, their product allows customers to reduce their carbon footprint by 70%.
Meta is attempting to target carbon at the source
Announcing the deal for low-carbon concrete at Climate Week NYC, Meta’s head of clean technology innovation, John DeAngelis, said: “Our global infrastructure is what enables us to deliver the products and services that billions of people use around the world, and data centres play a big role in that.
“But concrete as well as other key hard to abate industries represent a big chunk of the embodied missions associated with the data centre infrastructure.
“Accelerating the deployment of these types of solutions is critical for driving deep decarbonization and we hope this collaboration can help pave the path for others to do the same.”
CarbonBuilt CEO, Rahul Shendure, said: “Everyone agrees that we need more immediate and significant reductions in CO2 emissions if we are to bend the carbon curve.
“All meaningful solutions in the cement and concrete space require some type of infrastructure change, and making them happen fast requires that market participants can secure an attractive return on their investment of financial and human capital. Our collaboration with Meta will help accelerate the scale-up of our ambitious, here-now technology.”
