Microsoft has just signed a contract with a deep vaulted, paying it for the removal of 4.9 million tons of waste in 12 years from manure, sewage and agricultural by -products to the deep underground. According to Inc.The current cost of removing CO2 in the company is $ 350 per ton. If you multiply it using a Microsoft contract, it makes it worth more than $ 1.7 billion. However, no entity revealed the actual terms of the contract, and its general director, Julia Reichelstein, says that the company expects its costs to fall over time, and the price is not the actual sum of the technological giant.
This is not the first time Redmond paid another company to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions; Microsoft signed a contract with the atmosphere in April this year to sequate 6.75 million tons of carbon dioxide. However, the Vaulted technique is unique – instead of extracting carbon dioxide from air or electricity, it collects organic waste. It connects it into a hefty suspension, which is then injected about 5000 feet underground. This prevents it from dropping it in place of waste removal, where it would eventually spread and released carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
“In general, what is happening with these waste today, they go to the garbage dump, are dropped onto the waterway, or simply spread on land to remove. In all these cases they break down into CO2 and methane,” said Reichelstein to Inc.
Projects such as these allow Microsoft and other technological giants to balance the huge amounts of carbon dioxide emissions produced by data centers, especially when they exploit significant electricity, often generated from fossil fuels. For example, Musk is in the face of legal actions in Memphis, Tennessee, after his company XAI, is accused of air pollution with the support of insufficiently reported energy generators in Colossus supercomputer. In addition, many companies, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle and others, invest in compact modular reactor research to determine their immaculate energy sources for expanding data centers.
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