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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)
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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

so the AI stuff causes too much CO2, instead of fixing their own hardware, the best they could do is to offset that CO2 amount by burying shit?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes, burying fertilizer traps biomass CO2 and then they can use that as carbon credit equivalent to claim CO² neutrality.
    Of course, there's a reason why fertilizer is an inexpensive source of fixated carbon biomass and this means all fertilizer will increase in price by the amount value of it's CO2 carbon credit equivalent

    Then maybe the buried fertilizer will become so valuable that it can be dug out and sold as fertilizer again.

    I don't see any problems with this plan !

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Then maybe the buried fertilizer will become so valuable that it can be dug out and sold as fertilizer again.

    Between the methane that generates and easily obtained phosphorous trapped down there, that's strictly a matter of time, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Then maybe the buried fertilizer will become so valuable that it can be dug out and sold as fertilizer again.

    I don't see any problems with this plan !

    except the part the planet may be uninhabitable for humans by then due to the massive CO2 we are spewing to get slop from AI...

    other than that, no problem at all

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