This is the Microsoft Plant That’s Run by a Fuel Cell That’s Powered by Biogas

In a pilot project, biogas feeds a fuel cell that powers a Microsoft modular data plant and provides electricity and heat for a water reclamation facility.
This is the Microsoft Plant That’s Run by a Fuel Cell That’s Powered by Biogas
Local officials are briefed on how biogas and fuel cells power a modular data center during a “cable cutting” ceremony in November 2014. The data center can operate even when disconnected from the grid.

The Dry Creek Water Reclamation Facility has an unusual new neighbor.

A $112 million Microsoft modular data plant, almost the size of a shipping container, houses 200 computer servers next to the plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It gets its electricity from a fuel cell powered by...

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