Overview
- Canaan will install 360 liquid-cooled Avalon A1566HA-460T units in a 24-month program that preheats water feeding Bitforest’s electric boilers.
- According to Canaan, the closed-loop system captures roughly 90% of consumed power as heat and delivers water temperatures above 75°C for greenhouse use.
- The pilot targets 95% equipment uptime, projects an all-in power cost of $0.035 per kWh, and is designed to circulate up to one million tonnes of hot water each year.
- Canaan says integrating liquid-cooled miners with the greenhouse cuts additional heating demand and removes the need for industrial cooling towers found in conventional data centers.
- The initiative reflects miners’ shift toward dual-use, lower-emission models following the 2024 halving, as Cambridge reports 52.4% of Bitcoin mining now uses sustainable energy sources.