Nordvar · In development
Compact data centres whose waste heat removes carbon from the air.
Computing on renewable power, its waste heat driving direct air capture, and the carbon dioxide stored permanently as rock. One compact site, designed as one system and built in phases: the data centre first, capture as its own permitted phase, alongside or after it depending on the financing of each phase. A first site is being evaluated in Iceland.
The system
One site, two outputs.
A data centre turns nearly all of its electricity into heat, and most data centres throw that heat away. A direct air capture plant needs heat to run. Nordvar puts the two on one site, with a heat pump bridging the temperature gap, so the heat from computing drives the removal of carbon from the air.
Where a local user exists, captured CO₂ can also be supplied as a feedstock; only stored tonnes count as removal.
The physics
Properties of the physics and of published results, not Nordvar performance claims.
Planned · decided site by site
Built into the land.
The building itself is planned to borrow its surfaces from the landscape it stands in: a roof of native moss, textured concrete the colour and grain of basalt, paths of black sand.
Where
The right place already exists.
A site like this needs four things at once, and they rarely coincide. Iceland has all four - and has hosted operating direct air capture with mineral storage since 2021.