NeoCarbon Selected to Join the Net Zero Start-Up Hub for Data Centers in Denmark

Recognition highlights the company’s pioneering carbon-negative cooling solution and growing role in the sustainable digital infrastructure ecosystem.

Fredericia (Denmark), 24 September 2025 – NeoCarbon is proud to announce its selection to join the Net Zero Start-Up Hub for Data Centers, a flagship initiative of the Net Zero Innovation Hub, the Danish Data Center Industry (DDI), and partners including Google, DTU, and Business Fredericia. The announcement was made during the Net Zero Start-Up Hub Pitch Event at Nordic Data Center Week in Fredericia, Denmark.

NeoCarbon was one of the few companies chosen from a highly competitive field of finalists presenting breakthrough solutions to accelerate the data center industry’s transition toward net zero. The judging panel included leading voices from the energy, sustainability, and digital infrastructure sectors, such as Google Data Centers, Energy Cool, EIFO, and DTU.

Joining the Hub provides NeoCarbon with access to world-class mentoring, technical networks, and opportunities to validate and scale its carbon-negative and water-positive secondary cooling solution within the Nordic and European data center ecosystem.

“This recognition is a strong validation of our vision to make carbon removal deployable today by re-using existing infrastructure and waste heat” said Tobias Sodoge, CEO of NeoCarbon.

Press release of Net Zero Innovation Hub

About NeoCarbon

Founded in Berlin in 2022, NeoCarbon develops modular Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems designed to retrofit existing industrial and data center infrastructure, cutting costs and energy consumption by leveraging waste heat. The company has built two autonomous DAC units, raised €7 million in funding, and recently signed its first multi-year offtake agreement for carbon removal credits with Milkywire’s Climate Transformation Fund.