Oaktree-Backed Pure DC Turns Carbon Removal Into Data Center Infrastructure

A Healthier Earth (AHE), the climate tech R&D subsidiary of Pure Data Centres Group (Pure DC), has launched what it calls the world's first integrated carbon dioxide removal (CDR) platform from the data center sector. The platform is designed to give hyperscalers, global corporations, and institutional buyers across Europe and beyond access to a scalable, financeable supply of high-integrity biochar and carbon credits.

The move positions Pure DC, which is backed by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, as the first data center developer to embed CDR directly into its core business model, rather than treating carbon removal as a separate offset purchase.

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Tackling a Fragmented Market

The CDR market has long struggled with fragmentation. Institutional buyers need scale, consistency, and rigor, but the supplier landscape has rarely delivered all three at once. AHE's platform directly addresses this by combining its own production capabilities with partner-developed projects, organizing them into tranches under a single set of standards and governance.

Credits will be certified under the Isometric Standard and supported by Mangrove Systems' digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (dMRV) software. That combination of certification rigor and real-time digital verification is a direct response to growing corporate demand for verifiable, high-integrity removals.

AI Infrastructure Meets Climate Action

The timing is deliberate. As many data centers continue to rely on fossil fuels to meet soaring power demand from AI workloads, carbon-removal credits are becoming a critical tool for companies trying to limit net emissions. Pure DC is betting that offering CDR as part of its infrastructure proposition will become a commercial differentiator as European markets increasingly require verifiable climate action.

Gary Wojtaszek, Executive Chairman and Interim CEO of Pure DC, framed the launch as a structural shift for the industry: "What we're doing at Pure DC is the first of its kind anywhere in the world. In Dublin we've demonstrated that net zero carbon, self-powered data centers are deliverable. Now, with our Biochar Integrated Carbon Removal from AHE, we're making them scalable. This isn't incremental improvement; it's a complete reset of how this sector will be built going forward."

Building CDR as Infrastructure

AHE Chief R&D Officer Alastair Collier described the platform's ambition as turning carbon removal into a reliable infrastructure asset: "We're bringing the standards, systems and scale required to deliver high-integrity carbon removal as a reliable, long-term solution for global demand. By integrating developers, capital and buyers into a single system, we can deliver high-integrity carbon removal in a way that is reliable, financeable and ready for long-term, large-scale demand."

To support the platform's growth, AHE plans to expand across commercial, scientific, and operational functions. The effort builds on earlier momentum, including a £24 million investment in the UK's largest biochar facility, PureBiochar, which at full capacity is expected to produce 11,500 tonnes of biochar annually, removing up to 18,500 tonnes of carbon per year.

About Pure Data Centres Group

Founded in 2015 and backed by Oaktree Capital Management, Pure DC is a London-based data center developer with more than 250MW of IT capacity in operation or development across Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The company is targeting a total capacity of 3 gigawatts as it scales its AI infrastructure buildout. A Healthier Earth serves as its dedicated climate tech R&D arm, focused on decarbonizing digital infrastructure through biochar production and carbon credit markets.