Blockheating from Heerlen has been declare bankrupt . The fellowship was active in placing mobile data centers next to greenhouse . Blockheating supplied agriculturalist with hot water at 60 degrees Celsius , include a data centre next to a tomato greenhouse in northern Limburg . On the IT side , however , the startup meet challenges . As is often the case with bankruptcies , the startup then also lacked fiscal resources .
The caller ’s nidus was on heat supply via hot water . Blockheating ’s founders settle to take the air conditioning for cooling off host processors and instal a chill block in its place .
" Along the processor run a pipe organisation with inhuman water that absorbs and dissipates heat from the processor like a form of heat exchanger . As a solution , for 1 MW of host , we only need 0.05 MW of cooling superpower , " they explained as recently as 2021 .
A decisive benefit , according to the developers , is that the water can be heated up to 60 degrees Celsius in this way . Horticulture is concerned in that warm water .
Besides a pilot in gardening , a pilot with an agrocampus was also planned . That did not bring home the bacon .
To provide blistering water to gardening , it is significant that the datum centers go right . For that , IT company must want to utilize the data point centers . Technically potential , but IT parties proved to have a longer than hop - for lead time . Among other things , they are looking at data security and guaranteed uptime . The latter is jargon for the annual time a data plaza is available . Crucial for heat supplying to growers is there are IT client who expend the IT capacity in a data heart and soul .
Placement of a trial container next to a tomato greenhouse in 2019 . Blockheating had a 180 - kilowatt - hour wandering information center hunt down in recitation , contain 120 - kW - hour of IT computer hardware .
Eventually , Blockheating wanted to grow into a table service provider of both IT services and heat . The startup lacked the fiscal mental ability to continue . A relaunch is being explored .
It is and remains clear to the instigator that the zip issue in horticulture is " very interesting " because of its tractableness and shell . Blockheating had now been operate for more than five years . Meanwhile , other parties have also started work on the link between information centre and the greenhouse .
Blockheating B.V. was declared belly-up on 18 May 2025 . The bankruptcy was registered under extension : 03.lim.23.149.F.2025-05-03 . Mr. R.J.H.M. Crombaghs of Heerlen has been appointed trustee .
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