The next time you find yourself saying that Microsoft’s cloud services stink, you could be more
right than you realize.
Technology Review reports that Microsoft has “gotten approval to test a modular data center run
from a biogas-powered fuel cell located at a wastewater treatment plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming.”
Or put another way, Microsoft is testing out a new data center that’s powered by sewage gas
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“A person is consuming data and that person’s waste is going to power the data center,” Microsoft
data center researcher Sean Parker told the publication. “It’s been a mind shift … when we smell
that methane at a water treatment plant, we realize we’re smelling energy.”
So if you’re a farmer who has a particularly grassy patch with flocks of fowl, give Microsoft a call.
They might be willing to turn a smelly liability into a profitable asset.
uh .... not the Geylang-type ah:(
right than you realize.
Technology Review reports that Microsoft has “gotten approval to test a modular data center run
from a biogas-powered fuel cell located at a wastewater treatment plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming.”
Or put another way, Microsoft is testing out a new data center that’s powered by sewage gas
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“A person is consuming data and that person’s waste is going to power the data center,” Microsoft
data center researcher Sean Parker told the publication. “It’s been a mind shift … when we smell
that methane at a water treatment plant, we realize we’re smelling energy.”
So if you’re a farmer who has a particularly grassy patch with flocks of fowl, give Microsoft a call.
They might be willing to turn a smelly liability into a profitable asset.
uh .... not the Geylang-type ah:(
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