You described the company Crusoe. They've been building datacenters that do exactly what you said.

https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/blog/understanding-the-probl...

> Crusoe has built their business around turning flaring from an operational and regulatory risk for oil and gas companies, as well as an existential risk for our planet, into a multi-solve solution. Crusoe doesn’t just mitigate flaring emissions. They capture the gas, convert it into energy, and use it to power computing infrastructure.

Edit: Crusoe sold its bitcoin-mining operation including the Digital Flare Mitigation business to NYDIG in 2025, so the above may be inaccurate.

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ck2 2 hours ago | parent [-]

wow Crusoe deserves more press if everything they are saying checks out

flaring has upset me for a decade, even if it was just used for bitcoin mining it would have at least done something vaguely beneficial compared to just raising earth temperature

but if it can help solve the "AI" energy demand boom that would be huge

because it's not like this country is ever going to stop fracking at $80-$100 a barrel now

	▲	hedgehog 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Methane has a stronger greenhouse effect than CO2 (until it decays into CO2) so it's probably better to burn it and do no work than just vent it, and better still to leave it in the ground.