Morning all, it’s the Cold Isle, the only newsletter you need if you want to get 10% smarter about data centers, colocation, and edge computing.

Here’s what’s on tap today:

• Project Bison: A new generation of Carbon Capture. 

• Listen to this: Are edge data centers even edgy?

• Sydney vs Bard face-off: Who comes out on top?

• Hot links 🌭

• Daily Dall-E 🎨 

Est. read time: 4mins, 22secs

LET’S JUMP IN…

Project Bison is Carbon Capture’s big Wyoming bet

Carbon Capture Inc has plans for a five-megaton direct air capture (DAC) project. The new facility will be built in southwest Wyoming and is a partnership with Frontier Carbon Solutions and their Sweetwater Carbon Storage Hub. FCS will be providing permanent COs storage for the project.

What does that mean and how does it work?

Commercial carbon capture is actually a relatively new concept, but the process is a relatively simple one. (And it’s all based on credits)
Project Bison uses an “air capture system” to filter CO2 out of the air. They then allow Frontier to gather that carbon dioxide and inject it deep in the ground, into rock formations where it stays (apparently for at least 1000 years.)
Project Bison gets credits for every ton of CO2 they remove, and then they sell those credits to large enterprises that want to pretend to care about the environment offset their carbon footprint.

First of its kind?

Carbon Capture Inc says so. They claim that the modular architecture of their removal and storage systems will allow them to rapidly develop their facilities, both at Project Bison and around the country.
CCI also claims that Project Bison will be the first direct air capture project to use Class VI injection wells for permanent storage.

With this growth strategy in place, they plan to be at 5 megatons of CO2 removal annually by 2030.

This would make them the largest carbon removal project in the world. To put this into perspective, it’s estimated that humans produce 37000 Megatons of CO2 per year.

According to Patricia Loria of CCI, sales of the credits would net them $185 per ton of CO2. (That’s $925 million at their 5 Megaton capacity.)

It’s working so far. As we covered in a previous edition, CCI has already inked a big deal with Microsoft to support their achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

Quick Bytes 🍽

• 🥊 Internet Archive gets knocked out amid legal fight. The nonprofit organization, Internet Archive, which is basically the online historian of the internet, was knocked offline after a power outage hit one of its data centers last week.
  Not exactly great timing, as IA is embattled in several lawsuits to defend their right to photocopy and upload their own books.

• Digital Realty takes sustainability steps in new Toronto data center. Spanning 711k sqft, DR’s 1 Century Place data center achieved a LEED Silver certification for sustainable design, and 93% of its power is emission-free. It is one of Digital Realty’s most sustainable data centers, and it marks a further step towards full carbon neutrality for the company.

• Listen to this: Are data centers even edgy? New series from ServerFarm just dropped. If you’re interested in edge computing, you’ve got to listen to this one. They discuss what exactly “edge data center” means, and how they can be used to accelerate digital transformation.

Hot links are here! 🌭

Daily Dall-E 🎨

This is our intern, Gregory.

Ok, on that note I’m out. Let me know how we did. See you next time.