Latvian Firm Power Mining to Deploy Bitcoin Mining Containers for District Heating in Scandinavia
December 10, 2025
In a move that addresses both the energy intensity of cryptocurrency mining and the growing demand for sustainable heating solutions, Latvian company Power Mining is deploying its specialized containerized data centers to capture and reuse waste heat for a Scandinavian municipality. This initiative comes as the European data center sector, which currently accounts for over three percent of the continent's electricity consumption, faces increasing pressure to improve energy efficiency under the EU's Energy Efficiency Directive.
The company announced that its first two portable data center modules will be shipped to an unnamed town in Scandinavia. Each module, housed within a standard shipping container and priced starting from €300,000 ($349,000), contains 160 Whatsminer M63S++ Bitcoin mining rigs. The system is designed to redirect the substantial heat generated by these operations into the local district heating network.
Power Mining estimates that a single container can produce enough residual heat to warm approximately 2,000 homes annually, while simultaneously mining up to 9.7 Bitcoin. The initial deployment will provide the municipality with 1.52MW of thermal power. The technical process involves pumping dielectric fluid warmed within the server enclosures to a 1.7MW heat exchanger, which then interfaces with the town's existing heating grid.
In a statement, the company expressed its ambition for the project: "We're truly grateful to our partners for trusting us with such an ambitious and technically demanding project. We hope this is only the beginning – an opportunity to scale this model further and demonstrate how Bitcoin mining can strengthen a town’s heating system, reduce waste, and deliver real, tangible value for local communities."
The project holds significant implications for the industry's environmental footprint. Power Mining highlights that European data centers, with an estimated annual electricity consumption of 150TWh, possess the theoretical potential to heat up to 10 million households if waste heat is effectively captured. A key advantage of their Bitcoin mining setup is the higher-grade heat it produces. "While classical data centers can collect heat at approximately 27°C (80.6°F), the Power Mining data centers can collect heat up to 65°C (149°F), providing cities with more efficient sources of heat," the company noted.
Founded in 2017, Power Mining has built and shipped more than 100 containerized data centers and reported surpassing €5 million ($5.82 million) in annual revenue in 2025. The firm stated it is focused on further developing its heat recapture technologies to deepen integration with centralized heating infrastructure, positioning waste heat reuse as a critical step towards more sustainable and efficient Bitcoin mining operations.
Source: datacenterdynamics
Latvian Firm Power Mining to Deploy Bitcoin Mining Containers for District Heating in Scandinavia
