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Pig manure powers AI data centers, boosting farm energy income tenfold

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from TechRadar ·

A British farm uses pig slurry to generate renewable energy for decentralized AI data centers, earning ten times more than selling electricity to the grid. The setup combines biogas production with on-site computing, turning waste into a high-value resource. This model could reshape farm economics and distributed computing infrastructure.

Meridian48 take
The story is real but early-stage; scaling this model faces regulatory and technical hurdles, but it highlights a clever intersection of agriculture and AI infrastructure.
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This British farm is running AI on pig muck — and it could lead to a major windfall for farmers energy income, earning ten times more than the grid →
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