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Microsoft Is Getting Hungry for Fuel Cells
- Technology may help ‘double efficiency’ of energy use
- Company planning to install $45 million device in near future
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Microsoft Corp. is moving to use fuel cells at its power-hungry server farms, saying the technology may double the efficiency of energy used.
The software company is testing how it can use the devices to generate electricity and plans to install a 10-megawatt fuel cell within a few years at a cost of about $45 million.