- Microsoft AI pays billions to inject underground manure to cancel carbon emissions
- Walted deep sewage and fertilizer burys 5,000 feet below in a climate fixed
- Carbon offset prices may fall, but right now, the cost of each ton is approximately $ 350
Microsoft is once again spending heavily on carbon removal – but this time, the strategy is not based on future machinery or carbon -scrubbing forests, but rather waste, rather than waste, especially human and animal excreta, fertilizer and agricultural sub -products.
The company has entered a multi-year agreement with Valted Deep for disposal of this organic material that is injecting it underground.
The method is designed to prevent decomposition from leaving carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere.
An underground solution of an atmospheric problem
As Ink,Walted Deep will handle 4.9 million metric tonnes of waste over the next 12 years.
While the company allegedly charged $ 350 per ton for carbon removal, CEO Julia Reichelstein clarified, “The mentioned price is not the actual amount that the technical giant paid” and said the cost is expected to fall over time.
Nevertheless, if the listed price was accurate, the deal price may exceed $ 1.7 billion, but currently, no exact figure has been revealed from both sides.
The argument behind this method lies in preventing the harmful effects of the current waste disposal practices.
“Generally, what happens with these waste. Today they go into a landfill, they dump into a waterway, or they are simply spreading on the ground for the purpose of settlement. In all those cases, they are disintegrated into CO2 and methane,” Reichelstein said.
“It is contributing to climate change. And then often, especially when it spreads to the land, they are going directly to the ground water of all pathogens.”
The process of vaulted deep involves converting waste into dense solution and then pumping it below 5,000 feet below the surface.
This approach not only locks the material away from the atmosphere, but also bypasses ecological risks associated with surface level disposal.
This idea may seem unconventional, but it fits into wide patterns of scraping tech companies for scalable carbon offset strategies.
Along with other cloud veterans such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon, the data centers are facing environmental costs, facilities require large-scale energy inputs, which are often from fossil-futile sources.
With AI Workload intensifying this demand, the need to find creative mitigation solutions has become necessary.
Earlier in 2025, Microsoft participated with atmosclear with 6.75 million metric tons of carbon dioxide with cicvester, showing a desire to detect various strategies.
He said, it is not clear how scalable or durable will be in the long term, especially if the cost remains high and public perception becomes important in the long term.
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