{"id":950091,"date":"2025-07-26T08:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950091"},"modified":"2025-07-26T08:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T03:27:35","slug":"explained-why-microsoft-is-spending-billions-to-buy-nearly-5-million-metric-tons-of-human-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/26\/explained-why-microsoft-is-spending-billions-to-buy-nearly-5-million-metric-tons-of-human-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained | Why Microsoft is spending billions to buy nearly 5 million metric tons of human waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you believe someone saying they are buying poop \u2014 and that too from almost every dirty corner of the planet? Well, it\u2019s actually true. Tech giant Microsoft is buying tons and tons of human waste in a bid to shrink its carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>In one of its recent approach towards sustainability, Microsoft has signed a deal to purchase 4.9 million metric tonnes of organic waste, including sewage sludge, over the next 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>The spend? Huge. Noting each ton costs $350, the company would spend around $1.7 billion to meet its green goals in this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you believe someone saying they are buying poop \u2014 and that too from almost every dirty corner of the planet? Well, it\u2019s actually true. Tech giant Microsoft is buying tons and tons of human waste in a bid to shrink its carbon footprint. In one of its recent approach towards sustainability, Microsoft has signed a deal to purchase 4.9 million metric tonnes of organic waste, including sewage sludge, over the next 12 years. The spend? Huge. Noting each ton costs $350, the company would spend around $1.7 billion to meet its green goals in this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}