Danbury clean energy manufacturer FuelCell Energy, Inc. on Monday announced it will provide a fuel cell for the Microsoft Corp. data center in Wyoming.
The fuel cell will use biogas from a nearby wastewater treatment facility to produce 200 kilowatts of electricity for the Microsoft data center at Dry Creek Water Reclamation Facility in Cheyenne. The fuel cell will be installed by spring 2013.
Financial terms were not disclosed. The project was funded, in part, by a $1.5 million grant from the Wyoming Business Council.
Fuel cells typically use natural gas to run their electrochemical processes, but they can use hydrogen derived from biogas and other sources as well. The biogas fuel cell in Wyoming is Microsoft’s research project to test the viability of powering data centers off wastewater treatment biogas.
