Hardware manufacturer and Bitcoin miner Canaan continues its efforts to reuse energy for commercial and consumer applications by making computing heat available in Canadian greenhouses.
In a notice Tuesday, Canaan said it will participate in a 3-megawatt (MW) demonstration experiment with Bitforest Investments in Manitoba to “capture heat from the Avalon computing system and use that heat as a supplemental source for greenhouse operations.”
The pilot program, which will run for an initial 24 months, will use Canaan’s liquid cooling system to capture heat and preheat the greenhouse’s intake water, reducing energy requirements.
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The initiative will allow Canaan to supplement Bitforest’s greenhouses by “recycling heat from computing servers that would otherwise be disposed of,” reducing its reliance on fossil fuel boilers. The company announced that it will deploy a computing system with 360 water-cooled servers. Bitforest says its Manitoba operations also include tomato production.
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Miners look to green solutions, energy use
Canaan announced the launch of a mining facility at a wind farm in Texas in September, but Bitcoin (BTC) miners aren’t the only ones looking to reduce energy costs through green solutions.
In November, mining and digital infrastructure company Phoenix Group announced a 30MW hydroelectric facility in Ethiopia. Another Bitcoin miner, Sangha Renewables, has launched a 20MW solar power project in Texas.
The difficulty of mining BTC, which affects the cost of miners, reached an all-time high in 2025. Mining difficulty is expected to increase this month, although prices spiked in September before falling in October’s market crash. According to CoinWarz data, the BTC difficulty at the time of publication was approximately 148.2 trillion.
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