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
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
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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
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..........I don't even get the logic. How does burrying poop make energy more efficient???
Offset, not solve.
They pollute, but don't want to have to deal with fixing it.
So they buy other pollution (easier & cheaper to deal with than their own pollution) and "dispose" of it.
Like carbon offsets. Planting trees offsets co2 pollution. So polluters can keep on pumping out co2 as long as they plant enough trees.
I feel like it's important to mention two things. One, processing this waste has more benefits than burying it.
Two, the planting trees thing or even the protecting already growing trees thing sounds nice. But what's happening in actuality is they are clearing areas that are mostly swamp land and arguably more efficient and better for the environment due to having better ability to process greenhouse gasses, and planting trees there. The tree protection racket literally involves buying land that already has trees on it and saying they're protecting those trees from being cut down when in actuality those trees were never under threat of being cut down at all.
This context is an important part of this conversation.
They're literally trying to trick the laws of physics with fantastical imaginations.