▲ 358 ▼ Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 1 year ago by RegularJoe@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 53 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 27 points 1 year ago (1 child) But that's fertilizer! WTF? permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago It's also precious cheap carbon credit, don't worry it will only increase world wide fertilize costs by the value of the carbon credits but thing of all the methane they can burn to make electricity. It's like converting our fertilizer directly into electricity, except its carbon sequestered 5000 feet under ground ! Maybe the fertilizer prices will increase so much it will become worththile to dig that 5000 feet mine and get that fertilizer back in the bio carbon cycle in 30 years when fertilizer costs more than aluminium does today ! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago It's also precious cheap carbon credit, don't worry it will only increase world wide fertilize costs by the value of the carbon credits but thing of all the methane they can burn to make electricity. It's like converting our fertilizer directly into electricity, except its carbon sequestered 5000 feet under ground ! Maybe the fertilizer prices will increase so much it will become worththile to dig that 5000 feet mine and get that fertilizer back in the bio carbon cycle in 30 years when fertilizer costs more than aluminium does today ! permalink fedilink source parent