- Microsoft pays thousands of millions to inject underground manure to cancel carbon emissions from AI
- The vaulted depths become wastewater and manure in a climate solution buried at 5,000 feet down
- Carbon compensation prices can fall, but at this time, each ton costs around $ 350
Microsoft is once again being spent largely on carbon elimination, but this time, the strategy is not based on futuristic machinery or carbon bulk forests, but it implies waste, specifically human and animals, manure and agricultural by -products.
The company has signed a several years with a deep married to get rid of this organic material injecting it underground.
The method is designed to prevent decomposition from releasing carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere.
An underground solution for an atmospheric problem
According Inc.., Deep vaulted will handle the funeral of 4.9 million metric tons of waste in the next 12 years.
Although, according to the reports, the company charges $ 350 per ton for carbon elimination, CEO Julia Reichestein clarified: “The aforementioned price is not the real sum that the technological giant paid” and added that the costs are expected to fall over time.
Even so, if the price quoted were precise, the agreement could exceed the value of $ 1.7 billion, but at this time, no exact figure has been revealed by any of the parties.
The justification behind this method is based on preventing the harmful effects of current waste disposal practices.
“In general, what happens to these waste today is that they go to a landfill, they are thrown in a river route, or simply extend on the ground with the purpose of eliminating. In all those cases, they break down in CO2 and methane,” said Reichestein.
“That is contributing to climate change. And then often, especially when it extends on Earth, all these pathogens go directly to people’s groundwater.”
Deep’s vaulted process consists in converting waste into a dense suspension and then pumping it to more than 5,000 feet under the surface.
This approach not only blocks the material of the atmosphere, but also avoids the ecological risks associated with the elimination of superficial level.
The idea may seem unconventional, but fits a broader pattern of technological companies that fight for scalable carbon compensation strategies.
Microsoft, together with other cloud giants such as Google and Amazon, faces the environmental cost of data centers, facilities that require mass energy contributions, often of fossil fuel sources.
With the workloads of AI that intensify this demand, the need to find creative mitigation solutions has become urgent.
In early 2025, Microsoft also associated with atmosphering to kidnap 6.75 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, showing its willingness to explore different strategies.
That said, it is not clear how scalable or sustainable will be the method of displacement of long -term carbon waste, especially if the costs remain high and public perception becomes critical.
Via Tomshardware
