Our Company
Ardor builds the infrastructure that connects European data centres with heat off-takers.
Mission
A Europe where no waste heat from data centres is lost. Where every megawatt-hour of thermal energy generated by AI infrastructure is captured, matched, and delivered where it is needed: homes, greenhouses, factories, cities.
We start with compliance because regulation is the lever. But we are building a platform so that lever does not just produce documents — it creates connections.
The Problem
Data centres convert virtually all consumed electricity into heat. In 2025, European data centres generated an estimated 180–220 TWh of waste heat, nearly all of which was released into the atmosphere.
Meanwhile, utilities pay €35–55/MWh for gas-based district heating. The barrier is not technical — it is an information and transaction problem: supply and demand cannot find each other.
Roadmap
CarbonBench
CarbonBench measures the CO₂ emissions of AI inference per token. Same thesis as Ardor (making the hidden environmental costs of compute visible), different product, different audience. CarbonBench data will feed into Ardor calculations for AI-focused data centres in the medium term. carbonbench.ai →