There's a lot of CO2 in datacenters, and Big Tech has promised to get to net zero
The Open Compute Project, the org best known for offering designs for hyperscale hardware, has rounded up AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft to help it test concrete.Concrete belches out lots of carbon dioxide for two reasons. One is that the cement component of concrete is often made with limestone, which releases the gas as it's heated. Energy needed to make cement is also a big contributor to concrete-related emissions.
Those worthies didn't stick around to watch the concrete dry, which would have been a fantastic use of taxpayers' money. Others will – and they have a plan to test the slabs under the kind of conditions they would experience if used in a working datacenter.
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