Built-In Direct Air Capture: The Data Center Opportunity
How integrating direct air capture into data center infrastructure turns cooling airflow and waste heat into a scalable revenue-generating opportunity.
About the White Paper
Data centers are entering a new phase of growth, driven by AI, cloud computing, and rising digital demand. But that growth is colliding with mounting constraints around power, land, clean energy, and sustainability performance. Operators are now under pressure not only to run efficiently, but also to demonstrate credible, verifiable emissions reductions.
This white paper explores how Direct Air Capture (DAC) can be integrated into data center infrastructure to meet that challenge.
By leveraging the large, available cooling airflows and low-grade waste heat already present in air-cooled facilities, data centers can support more efficient carbon removal while creating a pathway to new value creation. It also explains how Atoco’s nano-engineered reticular materials are designed for low-temperature regeneration, modular deployment, and reliable operation under data center conditions.
In this white paper, you will find:
• A clear overview of the market and sustainability pressures reshaping the data center sector
• An explanation of why air-cooled data centers are a strong host environment for modular direct air capture systems
• A look at how existing airflow infrastructure and waste heat can improve DAC efficiency and economics
• A deep dive into Atoco’s reticular-material-based DAC technology, including its modularity, durability, and low-temperature regeneration advantages
• Business-model insights showing how DAC can help data center operators and OEMs align decarbonization with new revenue opportunities
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