Microsoft announced on Thursday that it purchased more than 7 million tons of carbon credits from a night carbon.
AXIOS reported that a 25 -year contract would reorganize the land of 60,000 acres by crossing Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Recently, as AI has soared to configure and use data center, technology companies have struggled to devise carbon emissions.
Microsoft reported last year that the boom of AI and cloud computing has risen 29% since 2030 and has been seized more carbon than to achieve its 2030 goals. In 2023, the company reported that it produced 11.1 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions before the offset.
Carbon credits come in a variety of flavors. The chestnut carbon focuses on the reorganization, and the company promotes the planting of wood and then monitors a new forest so that it will not grow and cut according to planned. The company currently has eight projects in the southeastern United States and has previously worked as a farm or pasture.
The tree grows naturally and is naturally isolated, but not all forest carbon credits are generated. The credits of the project to plant trees that grow non -natural and fast are generally low in quality, and trees tend not to live long because they do not tend to support many biodiversity. Projects that support various primitive plantations are generally sold as premiums because they tend to be more flexible over time.
Even premium carbon credits due to stewed, re -forests, and unlimited forests are relatively traded compared to some alternatives. Chestnut2 In the atmosphere, it costs about $ 600 to $ 1,000 per ton. Despite the cost differences, Microsoft purchased carbon credits from Direct Air Capture Startup.
Natural infrastructure carbon credits are not always perfect for all strengths. Verra, the largest natural infrastructure -based carbon credit portfolio, reported that the organization exaggerated the project’s climate benefits in 2023 as a widespread investigation. This scandal led to the exposing of the CEO and re -evaluated the standards used by the industry. Chestnut Carbon, which has previously authenticated carbon credit using Verra, uses gold standards today.
