It also estimates that a 700-apartment community could earn nearly a million dollars a year.
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(Image credit: Superheat ) Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Superheat was at CES 2026 to showcase what it describes as “a water heater that pays for itself.” The new Superheat H1 is a $2,000 water heater that warms up your H2O using waste-heat from its built-in Bitcoin mining ASIC hardware, rather than an immersed resistive heating element.
It is claimed that owners of a Superheat H1 can “offset up to 80% of electricity and water costs” with earnings from cryptomining . Superheat extrapolates these numbers to suggest that a 700-apartment community could raise “up to $980,000 yearly earnings.”
The infographic above shows that a Superheat H1 can earn $1,000 in passive income per year. Therefore, your initial hardware investment should be entirely paid-off in two years, while it reduces your water heater energy spend by 80%. The H1 has a predicted service life of 10 years, very similar to a regular domestic boiler.
AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally, study claims
Cooling system for a single Nvidia Blackwell Ultra NVL72 rack costs a staggering $50,000
(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Waste not, want not Cooling data centers that run demanding workloads like cryptocurrency mining is a notoriously expensive business. It is estimated that cooling is the second most costly activity after actually powering the systems to chew through the tasks central to their existence.
But what if the ‘waste’ heat became a benefit? Indeed, some businesses, and most households, spend a lot of their energy budget heating water, for washing and heating systems, and so on, and get nothing else back except a hefty utility bill.
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