Amazon teams up with Orbital to remove CO2 from the air at one of its datacenters | TechCrunch

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News Summary
- Orbital Materials, an AI startup, has partnered with Amazon to test carbon capture
- The company is using an AWS data center as a first site
- The sorbent material is designed specifically to work with the hot air coming out of data centers
- The setup should remove more carbon dioxide than the electricity used by the data center would produce
AIs surging power demand has put several big tech firms at risk of blowing through their climate commitments. But Amazon has partnered with Orbital, an AI startup, to test a new material that removes [+2160 chars]