Google’s Former Carbon Project Gets $40 Million to Trap CO2

  • Startup 280 Earth will capture carbon from air in Oregon
  • Technology can use waste heat from internet data centers
280 Earth’s Direct Air Capture plant in The Dalles, Oregon, US.Source: 280 Earth
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Startup 280 Earth, a product of Alphabet Inc.’s moonshot factory, has signed agreements worth $40 million to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a newly completed facility in Oregon.

The agreements, facilitated by the Frontier coalition, will fund removal of 61,600 tons of the greenhouse gas from 2024 to 2030.