LanzaJet

LanzaJet - developer of clean fuel.

History

2022: Raising $50 Million from Microsoft

In mid-January 2022, Microsoft announced the investment of $50 million in LanzaJet. The money will be used to build the world's first alcohol fuel plant for Freedom Pines jet engines in Hawaii in the United States.

Microsoft is interested in eco-friendly fuel as a way to make the cloud data-processing centers (DPC) less dependent on diesel fuel. Representatives of LanzaJet say that this will bring to the world market environmentally friendly aviation fuel and renewable diesel fuel at a lower cost. The plant will use spent ethanol feedstock as a source of converted fuel.

Microsoft bought a stake in an environmental fuel developer for data centers LanzaJet

As noted in the LanzaJet, the construction of Freedom Pines Fuels by January 2022 is going according to plan, despite the fact that the supply chain, production and lack of labor affect. global economy The production of the plant is in full swing, and some modules have already been completed. The LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels plant is expected to complete mechanical work in 2022 and begin producing 10 million gallons of low-footprint biofuels carbon and renewable diesel fuel per year from sustainable ethanol, including raw material waste in 2023.

Microsoft representatives said the company aims to become carbon negative by 2030, and remove all carbon emitted on January 14, 2022 from the environment by 2050. As of January 2022, Microsoft is building from 50 to 100 new data centers per year. The company is working to reduce the carbon content of concrete and steel in its construction materials by 30 to 60%.

Microsoft is working to invest in new environmentally friendly materials for foundations, structures and fences of buildings. The company explores how low-carbon materials, such as earthen slabs, bricks and panels grown from algae, mushroom structural tubes and panels from agricultural waste, these materials can help reduce carbon emissions. In addition, the company has signed agreements to buy electricity from renewable sources. Earlier, Microsoft had already begun testing hydrogen fuel cells as a potential replacement for diesel fuel in its data centers.^[1]

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