Hot Water and Steam from Crypto Mining
The heat a mining machine produces can do far more than warm a room. Captured properly, it delivers everything from domestic hot water to industrial steam. Here is the temperature range, and how the heat gets from the machine to where you need it.
Low-grade heat: hot water and space heating
Straight from the machine, the heat is low-grade — typically warm water or hot air. That is exactly what most heating needs: domestic and commercial hot water, underfloor and radiator heating, swimming pools, greenhouses and drying. For these uses the heat is ready as-is, with no upgrade required, which makes it the simplest and most efficient way to use it.
High-grade heat: process steam to 120°C
Industry often needs more than warm water — it needs steam or high-temperature heat for a process. A bare machine cannot reach those temperatures on its own, so a temperature-upgrade stage takes the base heat and lifts it to process conditions, up to 120°C steam. This makes the same mining heat usable for sterilisation, drying, food and beverage processing and many other industrial duties.
Getting the heat to your circuit
Between the machines and your system sits a heat exchanger. It transfers the heat into your own water or steam loop without the two fluids ever mixing, so your circuit stays clean and separate. The whole assembly is containerised, so it arrives as a unit and connects to your existing pipework rather than requiring a rebuild.
One source, a wide range
Because the same machines can supply low-grade heat directly or feed an upgrade stage for steam, a single installation can cover a building's heating and a process at once. To see which temperatures suit your case, and how the economics work, visit our combined heat & compute page.
Frequently asked questions
How hot can the water get?
The base heat is low-grade, ideal for hot water and heating. For higher temperatures, a temperature-upgrade stage can raise it to 120°C steam.
Can mining heat really make steam?
Not from the machine alone — an ASIC runs too cool for that. The system pairs the machine's base heat with a temperature-upgrade stage to reach steam conditions.
Does my water mix with the machine's coolant?
No. A heat exchanger keeps the two fluids completely separate; only heat crosses between them.
Have a heat demand and access to power?
Tell us your location, your heat demand and your electricity price, and we'll model what a combined heat-and-compute system would deliver.