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
THE SO WHAT
Running AI data centers on biogas from pig slurry turns waste into a compute revenue stream — and pays farmers up to 10x more than selling power back to the grid. If this scales, expect more micro-data centers to chase cheap, dirty, or stranded energy sources, shifting site-selection from fiber maps to waste maps.
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