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Carbon dioxide (CO2) removal company Climeworks has signed its first carbon removal portfolio agreement with AI infrastructure company NTT Data.
The agreement provides NTT DATA with access to a diversified portfolio of carbon dioxide (CO2) removal credits generated across Climeworks’ global facilities.
Climeworks launched its first full-sized commercial direct air capture (DAC) plus storage (DAC+S) plant in 2021. Equipped with eight collector units capable of capturing around 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.
This marked Climeworks’ transition from pilot to early commercial-scale direct air capture (DAC) operations and led directly to the Mammoth plant. Launched in May 2024, the plant is a tenfold scale-up capturing approximately 36,000 tonnes per year by filtering it from the air before storing the captured CO2 underground.
Climeworks said its latest agreement with NTT Data will provide access to several hundred kilotonnes of carbon removal capacity over the next decade.
“As artificial intelligence scales and data centre construction expands, companies need clear, credible ways to manage their carbon footprint,” the company’s co-CEO and co-founder, Christoph Gebald, added.
This news comes as NTT Data Group advances its decarbonisation initiatives, including increased use of renewable electricity and energy efficiency measures, to reach net zero across different business elements between 2030 and 2040.
In 2024, 56% of the company’s electricity consumption came from renewable sources, up from 49% a year earlier.
