Circular Energy Infrastructure

Powering food
with cheaper,
greener heat.

Second Bite captures 99% of the thermal energy wasted by data centres and ASIC miners, and redirects it to dehydrate surplus fruit — turning two waste streams into one high-value, zero-marginal-cost supply chain.

SOLAR SOLAR PV ASIC HEAT 60°C DRYING FRUIT EXCHANGER
Recovery
99%
Setpoint
60°C
COP
≥3.5
99%
ASIC energy recovered
58Mt
Food wasted in EU / yr
40–60%
Energy share of drying OPEX
60°C
Stable drying temp.
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EU Green Deal · Farm to Fork Circular Economy Action Plan UN SDG 12.3 · Halve Food Waste EU Dual-Use Strategy NATO STANAG 2937 HACCP Compliant EU Green Deal · Farm to Fork Circular Economy Action Plan UN SDG 12.3 · Halve Food Waste EU Dual-Use Strategy NATO STANAG 2937 HACCP Compliant
01 — The Problem

Two waste streams.
One circular loop.

Miners waste 99% — and stop

ASIC miners vent ~99% of their electricity as heat and get publicly criticised for it. Worse: in bear markets they simply shut down. Second Bite keeps them productive — every kWh fights food waste even when BTC isn't profitable.

58 Mt food lost / year

Europe discards tens of millions of tonnes of edible food. Fruit is dumped for cosmetic defects, surplus harvests and logistical delays — and producers pay to dispose of it.

Expensive dehydration

Traditional dryers run on gas or grid electricity — 40–60% of production cost is energy alone, exposing buyers to price volatility and ESG risk.

Fragile supply chains

Civil protection and defence agencies depend on long-shelf-life rations sourced from energy-intensive, non-compliant suppliers — a strategic liability.

02 — Technology

Thermal Arbitrage,
engineered end-to-end.

A zero-marginal-cost thermal model. Solar-powered compute generates revenue in BTC or colocation; its exhaust heat is recovered, food-safe-isolated, and stabilised into a precision 60 °C drying line.

Live · System schematic
Hot stream Clean stream Power
01 · SOLAR PV Low-marginal-cost power ₿ 24/7 02 · ASIC / DC COMPUTE Antminer S23 · BTC + colocation revenue DIRTY · 40–80°C HACCP BARRIER 03 · RECUPERATOR Air-to-air · food-safe isolation cooled exhaust CLEAN · 60°C 60°C 04 · DRYING CHAMBER Stabilised 60°C · uniform output SECOND BITE DEHYDRATED FRUIT 100% RECOVERED ENERGY >350 KCAL / 100G 05 · OUTPUT B2B + NATO-aligned 99% ENERGY RECOVERED · COP ≥ 3.5 · ZERO MARGINAL THERMAL COST · HACCP COMPLIANT
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01
Solar PV +
grid balancing
Low-marginal-cost power drives compute; renewables qualify the facility for EU incentives.
02
ASIC / data-centre
compute
Monetises electricity 24/7 as BTC or colocation revenue — active even in bear markets.
03
Heat capture
40–80 °C
High-efficiency ducting recovers the full exhaust enthalpy from the server aisle.
04
Cooling system
to air
Matched to the latest Antminer S23 (Air-Cooled). HACCP-compliant isolation: dirty compute air never touches the clean drying stream.
05
Stabilised drying
60 °C
Inline thermal boosters hold setpoint regardless of compute load — uniform, food-grade output.
COP target
≥ 3.5

Dehydration coefficient of performance using recovered enthalpy vs. traditional electric dryers.

Energy mix
100% recovered

Every dried kilogram carries zero marginal thermal energy cost. Compute pays the electricity bill.

Product density
> 350 kcal / 100 g

Meets the caloric threshold for NATO STANAG 2937 survival rations and EU civil-protection reserves.

03 — What we sell

A modular facility
and the food it makes.

Customers see a simple, consistent B2B supply of dehydrated fruit delivered in bulk — ready for cereals, snacks, bars, yoghurts, private label, and emergency rations. Behind it sits a replicable engineering blueprint we can license to data centres, miners, cooperatives and renewable farms across Europe.

  • 20–40% cheaper than conventional dehydrated fruit — energy is recovered, not purchased.
  • Automatic ESG compliance — every batch is circular-energy certified at source.
  • Triple revenue — food margin, hedged BTC / colocation income, plus tradable carbon credits from avoided emissions and displaced gas/grid heat.
  • Defense-ready — >350 kcal/100 g, long shelf life, NATO-aligned specification.
Facility · Section view
Recuperator stack
L4
Drying chamber · clean air 60°C
L3
Air-to-air heat exchanger (HACCP)
L2
Capture plenum · 40–80°C dirty air
L1
ASIC / server aisle
L0
Solar PV + grid intake
Input: 100% electrical Output: Food + BTC
04 — Markets

Three markets.
One platform.

Second Bite monetises the same stack across three growing, non-correlated industries — with optionality to compound margin wherever the cycle is strongest: crypto, food, or industrial equipment.

01
Bitcoin mining · Global
$23B+
Global BTC mining revenue · 2025

Miners search endlessly for cheaper power and ESG cover. Second Bite delivers both — subsidised heat offtake plus a public-good halo that keeps facilities running even through bear markets.

  • Hedge against BTC price volatility
  • Year-round utilisation at low hash-price
  • Licensable to any miner worldwide
02
Dehydrated fruit · EU + Defence
€5.2B+
EU dehydrated fruit + NATO / civil-protection rations

Civilian B2B demand from cereals, bars and private-label, stacked with military and civil-protection reserves (NATO STANAG 2937) — a dual-use market with public-procurement tailwinds.

  • Industrial buyers: Compal, Nestlé touchpoints
  • > 350 kcal / 100 g NATO-aligned rations
  • EU civil-protection strategic reserves
03
Equipment licensing · Dehydration + Compute
€8B+
Industrial dehydration + heat-reuse retrofits across Europe

The hardware is the long-term moat. We sell the blueprint to food dehydrators, cooperatives, renewable farms and miners wanting to de-risk through waste-heat revenue.

  • Hardware kit sales to farms & co-ops
  • IP licensing to ASIC & data-centre operators
  • Waste-heat-as-a-service contracts
Why it holds

Three revenue pools that aren't correlated — food inflation, crypto cycles and energy pricing rarely move in lock-step.

Why it's defensible

HACCP + NATO + EU Green Deal compliance bundled at source — the full-stack integration is the barrier to entry.

Why it scales

A licensing layer lets us expand without owning every facility — a capital-light path to European coverage and beyond.

05 — Impact & alignment

Measure the difference.

Two ways to read the impact: a head-to-head comparison against traditional dehydration, and a live calculator that turns volume into avoided CO₂.

Industry standard
Traditional dehydration
TeraBite-foods
Circular thermal arbitrage
01
Energy cost
Share of operational expenditure
40 – 60% of OPEX
Gas or grid electricity drives the dryers; price exposure to volatile energy markets.
~ 0% marginal
Heat is recovered exhaust from compute the customer is already running. The kWh is paid for upstream.
02
CO₂ per kg dry fruit
Scope 1 + 2, drying stage
~ 1.8 kg CO₂
~6 kWh thermal × ~0.3 kg CO₂/kWh from gas or EU grid average.
~ 0 kg CO₂
No new combustion. The thermal budget is recovered, not generated — it's already accounted for by compute revenue.
03
ESG compliance
CSRD · EU Taxonomy
Manual audit
Each batch must be carbon-accounted ad-hoc; certifications are paid for and re-audited annually.
Certified at source
Every kilogram is born circular. Compliance is a property of the facility, not a paperwork retrofit.
04
Revenue streams
Diversification & cycle hedge
1 — fruit only
Margin compresses with food inflation and energy-price spikes; no compute or carbon optionality.
3 — fruit + BTC + carbon
Food margin, hedged BTC / colocation income, and tradable carbon credits from displaced gas/grid heat.
Live impact calculator

How much CO₂ would your facility avoid?

Move the slider — set the annual volume of fresh fruit dehydrated through a TeraBite-foods recuperator. Numbers update instantly.

1500 t
100 t10,000 t / year
CO₂ avoided / year
270t
vs. gas/grid baseline at 0.18 t CO₂ per t fresh fruit dehydrated.
Heat recovered
900 MWh
≈ 600 kWh thermal per t input
Cars off the road
59
avg 4.6 t CO₂ / car / year
Trees planted equiv.
12,272
~22 kg CO₂ / tree / year
Carbon credits
21,600
at €80 / t CO₂ EU ETS
Indicative figures · final values depend on fruit type, source mix and ETS pricing.
Strategic alignment

Built into five EU agendas at once.

European orchard at sunrise
EU Green Deal · Farm to Fork
01

EU Green Deal

Surplus fruit otherwise discarded for cosmetic defects is upcycled into commercial value, on European soil.

Industrial heat-recovery facility
Circular Economy Action Plan
02

Circular Economy

Two waste streams — industrial heat and agricultural surplus — are looped into a single, high-value output.

European industrial and defense infrastructure
EU Dual-Use Strategy
03

EU Dual-Use Strategy

Civil infrastructure aligned with European Defense Fund goals: supply-chain resilience, strategic autonomy.

Fresh fruit at a European market
UN SDG 12.3 · Responsible Consumption
04

UN SDG 12.3

Halving global food waste — measurable in tonnes of fruit diverted per site, per year.

Renewable energy infrastructure
UN SDG 7 · Affordable Clean Energy
05

UN SDG 7

Energy efficiency at source: previously-vented compute heat becomes the thermal budget of a food factory.

07 — Team

Built to execute.

Business, commercial strategy and hard engineering under one roof — with institutional, supply and thermal validation already secured. Click a portrait to read the full bio.

Alexandre Mira
CEO & Co-Founder

Alexandre Mira

Strategic visionary, lead operator and Crypto Expert with a proven track record of driving business growth and securing high‑impact partnerships with ADRAL and Omerlo.

Luís Bernardo
CTO & Co-Founder

Luís Bernardo

Electrical Engineering specialist leading technical architecture and engineering strategy to ensure seamless hardware and software integration for Terabite Foods.

Rodrigo Trovisco
Strategic Technical Advisor (Embedded Systems & Computing)

Rodrigo Trovisco

Distinguished Electrical & Computer Engineer with 20+ years of expertise — Senior Project Engineer at National Oilwell Varco (Norway), and leadership roles at Feedzai and Fujitsu.

Luis Abreu
Strategic Technical Advisor (Thermal Systems)

Luis Abreu

Thermal systems veteran with 20+ years in thermal energy management and industrial dry chambers, including international experience at National Oilwell Varco in Norway.

Endorsed by A ADRAL ✓ Concept reviewed
08 — Get involved

Build the second bite
with us.

Research labs, industrial buyers, data-centre operators, cooperatives, civil-protection and defence procurement — we want to hear from you before Phase 1 goes live.

We'll never share your details. Replies sent from mira@terabite-foods.com.