part with a thought for the cow when you ’re surfing the net in the coming geezerhood , wo n’t you ? Their manure will be shoveled and turned into fuel , so company such as HP can power their data centers and spare the world .
Tech troupe are having to see further afield to lay up theirdata farm , and as it turn out , being so close to farm has one impregnable benefit : poo . The manure has to be first turn into biogas , by function through an anaerobiotic digestion cognitive operation , distinguish the methane out from the quietus of the waste .
The biogas is becoming more and more more significant due to it being a renewable fuel , able to be compressed and used to force motorcar — or in this case , information centers . HP is at the heart of the project , telling technical school companies that as the average moo - cow makes enough manure a Clarence Day to power a 100 - watt light bulb , 10,000 cows ’ waste could actually power a one - megawatt datum center .
The tech house are kept happy , and farmers too — with the added income proceed a recollective way on farm , though not far enough that they could in reality afford all the supplies needed for a biogas set - up , read to cost $ 5 million up - front and $ 30,000 every yr thereafter in maintenance costs . [ NY Times ]
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