Microsoft is spending $1.7 billion to buy your poop; it will…
Microsoft has signed a $1.7 billion agreement for 12 years with a US-based startup not to scale up its AI and cloud services infrastructure, but to help meet its climate goals. As part of this deal with Vaulted Deep, the tech giant will buy human waste, manure, and other organic byproducts, collectively called bioslurry, and have them injected roughly 5,000 feet underground.
With this, it plans to remove 4.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from Earth. This deal comes hot on the heels of Microsoft expanding its AI data centre operations, which in turn is increasing its carbon footprint – around 23-30% between 2020 and 2024.
