In its latest move to shape its future supply chain, Microsoft is contracting with Sublime Systems to verifiably reduce construction emissions through a binding purchase of low-carbon cement manufactured with Sublime’s breakthrough American-invented technology.
Microsoft’s purchase will deploy up to 622,500 metric tons of Sublime Cement® over a six- to nine-year period. Deliveries will come from Sublime’s first commercial factory in Holyoke, Mass. and its subsequent full-scale production factory. Sublime’s Holyoke plant is designed to eliminate scale-up risk to progress to full megaton-scale Sublime plants—a trajectory accelerated by Microsoft’s purchase. Sublime’s manufacturing process avoids conventional sources of carbon emissions and other pollution, a “true-zero” technology that forgoes the need for carbon capture, enabling cost competitiveness at full-scale production.
“In designing creative transactions such as this one with Sublime, Microsoft aims to accelerate the mass production and adoption of clean construction materials, enabling innovators to overcome the real, acute challenges of scaling in heavy industries with existing manufacturing capacity,” said Jeff Leeper, Vice President of Global Datacenter Construction at Microsoft. “We need breakthrough, reimagined products like Sublime Cement at scale to reduce emissions—both at Microsoft and globally.”