Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies in Data Centers - An Open Standards Approach

Watch a 12-minute conference talk exploring the potential integration of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies with data centers through open standards. Learn how Direct Air Capture (DAC), a leading CDR solution, faces challenges with high operational costs primarily due to heat processing, air movement, and sorbent requirements. Discover how data centers' abundant heat and airflow resources could significantly reduce DAC implementation costs. Examine the role the Open Compute Project (OCP) might play in standardizing and advancing this innovative approach to combat climate change, as presented by Julius Kusama from Meta. Understand the critical need to scale CDR to Gigatons-per-year to mitigate severe climate change impacts and explore whether open standards could accelerate this essential environmental technology.