Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers

Amazon's information centers volition reportedly utilize copper from a excavation successful Arizona that's leaching metallic from ores utilizing microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Amazon Web Services will beryllium the archetypal customer for Nuton Technologies, which developed the "bioleaching" technology. AWS volition besides beryllium providing "cloud-based information and analytics support," helping to optimize Nuton's mining process.

Nuton's bioleaching method uses naturally-occurring microorganisms to extract copper from low-grade ore that would different beryllium excessively costly to mine, portion besides utilizing little h2o and producing little c emissions than accepted mining methods. This …

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