Atmosphere™
Heating, cooling, hot water and refrigeration on one loop. Tap water cools it. A computer heats it.
A$7,699 after rebates · A$11,999 before
less than the three appliances it replaces
heater, air conditioner and hot water service
a year, off the AI compute inside it
on the extra it costs over conventional gear
Three jobs, one loop of water
A litre of water carries about 3,500 times the heat of a litre of air. Atmosphere moves water, which is how one machine cools a room, warms it, and fills a bath.
Cooling from the cold tap
Mains water arrives at about 14 °C. It cools your rooms on the way to the taps, then carries on to the taps a little warmer. A fan and a pump do the work.
A$130 today
Heated by computation
AI cards sit in a locked steel box inside the heat pump, wrapped in water. Almost every watt they draw leaves as heat: 6,132 kWh of it, moved for 613 kWh of pump power.
A$711 today
Sixty degrees on the way past
The loop already runs at 50 °C, so the tank asks for the last ten degrees and nothing more. A disinfection cycle keeps it certified for drinking water.
A$930 today
A solar-powered AI chip in your wall, and you keep its heat
We put three NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 cards inside the heat pump, running AI workloads every hour of the year. Almost every watt a chip draws leaves it as heat. Atmosphere catches that heat in water and sends it to your rooms and your tank.
- What we install
- 3 × RTX PRO 6000, 288 GB
- What it draws
- 1.8 kW, every hour
- Heat you harness
- 15,768 kWh a year
- Where it goes
- Your rooms, tank and pool
- Who owns the compute
- Terraform
- Solar we fit and own
- 3.5 kW, direct current
Add water and it heats that too
A three-card node makes more heat than a house can drink. Every body of water you add puts more of it to work, and all of them run off the 50 °C loop on its return leg.
The only one that pays you back
Payback is the price divided by the yearly bill it saves, against what a Melbourne household most commonly has today.
| What you could buy | Price | You actually pay | Saves a year | Payback |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A new split systemCooling and some heating | A$3,100 | A$3,100 | A$163 | 19 years |
| Ducted gas heatingHeating only | A$8,500 | A$8,500 | A$213 | 40 years |
| A hot water heat pumpHot water only | A$3,273 | A$3,273 | A$620 | 5.3 years |
| 6.6 kW of solarPower, not heat | A$6,000 | A$6,000 | A$1,097 | 5.5 years |
| AtmosphereAll three jobs, and a tenant inside it | A$7,699 | A$1,326 | A$587 | 27 months |
Atmosphere nets off the A$6,373 of heating, cooling and hot water gear you were buying anyway, which is why you actually pay A$1,326. On a gross basis it is 6.3 years.
What is in the box
The machine
The compute node
Installation
Your house is about to become a data centre
You keep the heat. We will tell you when installations open in your postcode.
Terraform Atmosphere™ is a trademark of Terraform Technologies. Figures are Australian dollars, September 2026. Home nodes carry 3.5 kW of DC-coupled solar delivering about 4,277 kWh a year to the chip, with the balance drawn from the grid and metered to the compute customer. Running costs shown are the energy the household itself buys; the electricity drawn by the Terraform compute node is metered separately and is not included. Household figures are modelled on a three-bedroom Melbourne house using 8,300 kWh of heating, 1,300 kWh of cooling and 3,100 kWh of hot water a year, at 30c a kilowatt hour and 4.0c a megajoule of gas.
Cooling is modelled on 14 °C incoming mains water. At Melbourne's measured cooling-season average of 20.8 °C the cooling saving is 23% and the whole-of-house saving is 66%. Mains water temperatures are from 55,000 utility samples reported by Grace, 2014. Pool figures are for a 32 m² pool held at 28 °C with a blanket at night: a conventional gas season runs October to April and costs about A$2,131, while the September to May season Atmosphere supports needs 15,385 kWh of heat, which a six-card node has spare once the house has taken its own. A full Australian winter at 28 °C needs about 28,300 kWh and a larger node.
Household payback is the price divided by the yearly bill saved, against the gear a household most commonly has today, and nets off the A$6,373 of conventional heating, cooling and hot water equipment being replaced. Rebates are Victorian VEU and New South Wales ESS certificates plus federal STCs, assigned to Terraform at installation and subject to eligibility. Commercial plant prices, savings and paybacks are modelled on the heat demand of each building type shown and are confirmed by site assessment; chip counts assume the site's year-round heat demand can absorb them. Fleet figures describe a 10,000-home deployment at three cards a home and are a plan, not installed capacity. Installation requires a licensed electrician. Prototype figures; independent certification and a full year of instrumented data are in progress.