Tuesday 20 November 2012

Microsoft to power data centre with sewage-sourced methane

Microsoft plan to power their data centre with biogas collected from sewage

After years of careful research, Microsoft has uncovered the data centre's long-lost cousin: the sewage treatment plant.


On 19 November, the software giant announced that it will invest $5.5 million (£3.5 million) in a futuristic data centre -- called the Data Plant -- that will be completely powered by methane harvested from the Dry Creek Water Reclamation Facility in Cheyenne, Wyoming. That's right, it will convert poo into computing power.


By: Robert McMillan, Edited by: David Cornish


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/20/microsoft-powers-data-centre-with-sewage

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