This is why UAE water management, whether through desalination or
underground aquifers, is on a constant vigil to increase efficiency of operations.
This is where an exciting and pioneering Bitcoin mining project is already underway.
Marathon Digital Holdings recently partnered with
Zero Two.
Normally heat is used directly for desalination. But Zero Two and Marathon realized that almost 100% of the energy used by Bitcoin mining rigs is transferred into heat energy. If that heat can be recycled, it can be reused. And that recycled heat is now being used for water desalination. The only difference is that in the meantime, the desalination facility is earning revenue from bitcoin mining, meaning that their water-per-dollar ratio improves: more water can be desalinated for the same net cost - an incredible achievement. Marathon CEO
Fred Thiel explains that for the water desalination facility, bitcoin mining “allows them to continue to run the energy generation profitably so that they can use the heat off take to make desalinated water.”