Accelerating our path to scalable ocean carbon removal with Google
Today, I’m excited to share that Ebb has signed a prepurchase agreement with Google to remove 3,500 tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere. This commitment follows closely on the heels of our recent partnership with the Saudi Water Authority (SWA), the world’s largest desalination operator, and marks an important validation of Ebb’s core thesis: scaling ocean carbon removal requires leveraging existing industrial infrastructure and creating value far beyond carbon removal alone.
At desalination plants, that opportunity is hiding in plain sight. Globally, these facilities generate more than a hundred million tonnes of brine — the salty waste stream left behind after freshwater is extracted — every day. By transforming that brine into carbon removal, increased freshwater yield, and sustainable industrial chemicals, we unlock multiple forms of value from what was once considered waste. And because desalination infrastructure already moves massive volumes of seawater, integrating our system directly into these plants dramatically reduces deployment costs and complexity while delivering operational and economic benefits for our partners. This approach doesn’t just make carbon removal more affordable — it makes it scalable. That’s what makes our work with SWA so significant.
Google’s purchase reflects confidence in this integrated deployment model. The carbon removals generated from our operations in Saudi Arabia will fulfill this initial 3,500-ton order, demonstrating how infrastructure-based partnerships can deliver meaningful, measurable climate impact at scale.
Beyond the offtake agreement, we've also been collaborating with X, the Moonshot Factory, to explore innovative pathways for using the acid co-product from our ocean alkalinity enhancement process—further highlighting the potential for Ebb’s technology to create additional value alongside carbon removal.
Our work with Google is particularly meaningful given our shared history. Before founding Ebb in 2021, one of my co-founders, the late Dr. Matthew Eisaman and I led numerous climate and carbon removal initiatives within Alphabet. Google’s commitment to ocean-based solutions, and their support of innovative, infrastructure-aligned approaches like ours, continues to pull the field forward. We’re proud to be part of that journey and look forward to continued collaboration.
