07/22/2025 / By S.D. Wells
Microsoft has launched one of its most unconventional environmental initiatives yet—investing in the underground storage of human and agricultural waste to curb its massive carbon footprint. As the company races to meet its goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030, it has partnered with a firm called Vaulted Deep, which specializes in a technology that injects bio-slurry—sludgy, contaminated organic waste—thousands of feet underground for permanent carbon removal.
This radical effort is in response to Microsoft’s surging greenhouse gas emissions, largely fueled by its rapidly expanding network of AI data centers, which require enormous amounts of electricity. From 2020 to 2024, Microsoft emitted more than 75 million metric tons of CO? equivalents. In order to reverse that trajectory, the company is banking on innovative carbon removal solutions that go beyond traditional offsets.
Vaulted Deep’s method involves collecting waste such as human sewage, livestock manure, and industrial sludge, then grinding it into a thick slurry before pumping it about 5,000 feet beneath the Earth’s surface. The concept is that, once sealed deep underground, this bio-slurry will no longer release carbon dioxide or methane into the atmosphere, two key greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. By preventing these emissions, Microsoft can earn carbon removal credits—each ton of carbon stored equaling one credit.
Microsoft has committed to purchasing 4.9 million metric tons of durable carbon dioxide removal from Vaulted Deep over the next 12 years, beginning in 2026. This is part of a broader portfolio of emerging carbon removal technologies the tech giant is funding. Other ventures include regrowing tropical rainforests in Panama and capturing emissions from waste incineration in Norway to bury under the North Sea in repurposed oil wells.
Vaulted Deep CEO Julia Reichelstein describes the technology as a practical way to solve two environmental challenges at once: disposing of problematic organic waste and removing atmospheric carbon. Many waste types used in this process are typically dumped on land or spread on farms, practices that can cause nutrient runoff and leach hazardous chemicals, such as PFAS, into groundwater.
Though the idea of storing human waste underground may seem offbeat or even unsettling, proponents argue it’s an effective and scalable strategy for long-term carbon removal. Critics, however, question the transparency, long-term safety, and ethics of such solutions, especially given the growing reliance on offset-based climate accounting instead of directly reducing emissions.
Microsoft’s bold waste-to-carbon-credit investment underscores the scale of the tech industry’s climate challenge and the increasingly unconventional tactics being explored to meet sustainability pledges. As the company ramps up its energy consumption to support AI development, it appears ready to go to great depths—literally—to clean up its carbon legacy. Whether this poop-powered plan becomes a model or a misstep remains to be seen.
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