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HP's Chandrakant Patel envisions a data center powered by manure. Will ideas like this change the way companies run their operations?

Internet companies are learning that small towns are often great places to set up data centers. They have lots of land, cheap energy, low-cost labor, and something that may be a secret weapon in the race toward internet nirvana: cow dung.

For Hewlett Packard Fellow Chandrakat Patel, there’s a “symbiotic relationship between IT and manure.” Seriously. He’s thought about this a lot since working on a paper he published on the subject last year....