Last month, Meta (Facebook’s parent company) announced its plans to invest in the California-based concrete manufacturer CarbonBuilt on a new line of low-carbon products called Reversa.
The product is said to offer carbon footprint reductions of up to 70% compared to the current industrial baseline. Data centers will ultimately become the recipients of the product innovations. This comes as the technology giant is in the midst of a year in which it anticipates spending $37 billion on the booming building typology.
Meta's Head of Clean Technology Innovation John DeAngelis said: “Meta is prioritizing a multifaceted approach to accelerating decarbonization in hard-to-abate sectors like concrete. Our collaboration with CarbonBuilt will help them to deliver a step change reduction in emissions with a clear near-term path to scale. Accelerating the deployment of these types of solutions is critical for driving deep decarbonization and we hope this collaboration can help pave the path for others to do the same.”
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This is a technology that was developed at UCLA. While it's not ready for scale yet this investment should help (and unlike a lot of PR around this subject, this is a process that has potential in the real world).
I would love to specify it, but it isn't yet available at the local concrete plants in my area, nor are its competitors.
It'll be a while before these hit the market, but in the meantime you can accomplish a lot simply ensuring that you use as little concrete as you can, and what concrete you use is no stronger than the design requires (most concrete mixes are excessive and have too much portland cement for the application).
This seems like good news!
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