According to The Verge, this project should help Microsoft get one step closer to its goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030, which implies that the company will have to remove more emissions than it will be outputting.

Heirloom is the company who will be building the direct air carbon capture unit, while it also collaborates right now with Battelle and Climeworks in order to build one of the planet's largest projects of this kind in Louisiana. Should it be completed, it may have a carbon capture capacity of over one million tons per year for permanent underground storage, over 250 times the capacity of the world's current largest DAC unit.

Last year, Microsoft was among the investors who spent a total of 53 million USD to help Heirloom develop its carbon capture solutions.

Microsoft Senior Director of Energy and Carbon Brian Marrs said that "as an investor in and customer of Heirloom, we believe that Heirloom’s technical approach and plan are designed for rapid iteration to help drive down the cost of large-scale Direct Air Capture at the urgent pace needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement."