According to @DowdEdward, capturing methane from cattle to generate energy could help power AI data centers while reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, highlighting a dual benefit for compute and climate (source: @DowdEdward). Established programs show this pathway already works: anaerobic digesters on dairy and livestock farms capture manure methane for biogas electricity or pipeline-quality renewable natural gas (RNG) at commercial scale (source: U.S. EPA AgSTAR). The climate case is material because methane’s 20-year global warming potential is about 80 times that of CO2, so abatement via capture and combustion delivers outsized impact (source: IPCC AR6). In practice, most livestock methane-to-energy projects target manure management systems rather than enteric emissions from cows due to technical feasibility (source: U.S. EPA AgSTAR; FAO). With global data center electricity demand set to surge markedly by 2026 due to AI, firm low-carbon supply like RNG-backed generation is increasingly valuable for cost and reliability (source: IEA Electricity 2024). For traders, watch RNG developers, utilities and operators pursuing behind-the-meter biogas power and long-term PPAs, and note the parallel opportunity for energy-intensive crypto compute where electricity price strongly drives profitability, including BTC miners (source: IEA; Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance).