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
- British farms can now convert pig slurry into electricity to power AI data centers
- Powering compute generates 10x the income of selling this energy to the grid
- Cryptocurrency mining helps farms recover investment costs in just four years
One farm in Britain is now using electricity generated from pig slurry to power a small AI data center, allowing the otherwise agricultural facility to house its own decentralized hub powered by a type of renewable energy.
Among the key benefits are that the energy is both generated and consumed on-site, making it highly efficient. The process works by using an anaerobic digester to convert pig slurry into biogas, which is then converted into electricity.
The first site, within the northwest of England, is being operated by Easy Compute through its Green Compute network, which installed and manages computing hardware at farms.
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