Anthropic has become the first pure AI company to join Frontier, the carbon removal buying group started by Stripe, Google, and Shopify. The move is part of a new $915 million funding tranche that brings Frontier's total pledges to $1.8 billion. Frontier has already contracted nearly $700 million across more than 50 projects, removing 1.8 million tonnes of CO2 so far. Frontier says it will now focus on fewer, larger projects that could remove at least one gigaton of CO2 per year. New contracts will run eight to ten years. The group also wants future projects to show a path to government subsidies, signaling that private funding for carbon removal is not meant to last forever. This is a notable shift for carbon removal procurement and a sign that AI companies are starting to address their growing energy footprint.
