Meta has partnered with CarbonBuilt to accelerate the production of low-carbon concrete.

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CarbonBuilt develops low-carbon concrete solutions to reduce carbon footprints by up to 70 percent compared to industry baselines.

The agreement will allow CarbonBuilt to upgrade and scale the production of its low-carbon cement alternative, named Reversa.

Reversa has been designed to replace high-carbon Portland cement typically used in the concrete industry. The company said Reversa chemically reacts with CO2, not only to cure the blocks, but to permanently store the CO2.

The concrete solution is currently being produced at Blair Block, Alabama’s largest concrete masonry producer.

“Everyone agrees that we need more immediate and significant reductions in CO2 emissions if we are to bend the carbon curve,” said Rahul Shendure, CEO of CarbonBuilt.

“All meaningful solutions in the cement and concrete space require some type of infrastructure change, and making them happen fast requires that market participants can secure an attractive return on their investment of financial and human capital. Our collaboration with Meta will help accelerate the scale-up of our ambitious, here-now technology.”

John DeAngelis, head of clean technology at Meta, added: “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.”

Since 2020, Meta has maintained net zero emissions in its global operations and has committed to achieving net zero across its value chain by 2030.

The tech giant signed a reforestation-based carbon removal deal in Latin America last month. It is also part of a carbon removal coalition alongside Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce that aims to make advance market commitments for nature-based removal credits, including forestry projects, and part of Frontier Climate – a consortium that makes aggregated purchases of carbon capture credits from a number of companies, projects, and technologies – alongside Google.

Meta is also developing its own direct air capture technology to potentially capture carbon at its data centers.

Founded in 2020, CarbonBuilt specializes in the production of low-carbon concrete products. In a report commissioned by the company last year, switching to low-carbon masonry blocks could reduce the embodied carbon in data center walls by 50 to 70 percent.