Terraform Air

Terraform Air is a low operating cost heating, ventilation, air conditioning and hot water system, powered by solar and artificial intelligence. It captures the heat from on-site graphics processors running on solar and mains power. Compute customers pay for that power, and Air uses the heat to warm your rooms, cool them in summer and heat your water.

How It Works

1. 1
   Compute Makes the Heat. A 1.8 kilowatt compute node runs on its own solar panels, with mains power after dark. Water cools the processors and carries almost every watt away as heat, in a 50 °C loop.
2. 2
   Heat Warms Your Home. The loop warms every room and preheats your water, so the tank lifts it just the last 10 degrees, from 50 °C to 60 °C. Add a spa, pool or greenhouse and the same loop heats them too.
3. 3
   Heat Cools Your Home. In summer, a silica gel chiller turns the same heat into cold water that cools your rooms.
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   Air Routes the Heat. The controller reads the temperature in every room and in the hot water tank, then sends the heat where it is needed: to the rooms when they are cold, to the chiller when they are hot, and to your water, spa or pool in between.

Air Intelligence

Solar powered compute resources. Air Intelligence is the network of compute nodes inside every Air: graphics processors on their own solar, backed by mains power and cooled by the building's water loop. Linked together, they form one data centre spread across buildings that already exist, and compute customers rent its capacity from Terraform.

For Owners

• Buy Air upfront or through a government programme.
• Terraform owns and runs the compute node, and the compute customers who rent it pay for its power.
• Terraform pays for your heating, cooling and hot water energy, so they cost you nothing to run.
• You keep all of the heat for your rooms, your water and any extras.