Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire up to 622,500 -tons of low -carbon cement materials from sublime systems' First Commercial Factory in Holyoke, Massachusetts, as well as in the full factory that is to develop in the next six to nine years.
In the next two decades, the tech giant will reduce the company's CO2 footprint in its planned project portfolio, including data centers, with low-carbon-like sublime cement. Sublime produces its cement products, including concrete, using an electrolytic process to convert limestone into lime, which is used for metals such as aluminum, magnesium and copper. The approach replaces the traditional energy -intensive, high temperatures lime production process with a that can be carried out at room temperature.
“In the design of creative transactions such as this with sublime Microsoft, Microsoft intends Microsoft the mass production and introduction of clean building materials in order to cope with the real, acute challenges of scaling in heavy industries with existing production capacity,” said Jeff Leeper, Vice President of global data center construction in Microsoft. “We need broken products such as sublime cement on a scale, both at Microsoft and Global.”
Sublime welcomed the deal as a thrust for the next growth phase of the company. “This purchase enables Microsoft to access sublime's low -carbon cement technology, regardless of where your construction is located,” said Sublime Systems CEO and co -founder Leah Ellis in an explanation. “This solves a previously difficult-to-use challenge for clean cement scale-up: The lack of long-term cement transactions, in contrast to the immediate need for innovators, to demonstrate bank-capable customers in order to finance their production.”
Sublime recently completed its first two projects with concrete from his carbon-poor cement in Boston with a construction construction and ready mix supplier Boston Sand and gravel. Both the contractor and the specific supplier said that the process was no different from the provision of concrete concrete for placement for another job.
Ultimately, contractors are those who meet Microsoft's obligations for the purchase of the specific purchase used in the developer/owner.
“We really focus on finding out the right agenda structures with the general entrepreneurs,” said Cory Waltrip, Senior Manager for Business Development and Strategy at Sublime. “We worked very hard to find out how to work with these organizations and how to help us scale.”
While Microsoft held part of his data center construction, the software and cloud computing giant from Redmond, Wash.