A closed-loop heat-transfer medium removes heat from a first compute group.
Valora · Thermal Cascade Valorization
Use the energy twice.
Compute turns electricity into digital work and heat. Valora is a staged energy-recovery method intended to make that heat useful again.US provisional patent filed September 2026
The method
Raise the value of the return temperature.
Conventional cooling treats heat rejection as the endpoint. Valora arranges more than one thermal zone so the heat-transfer medium can leave at a temperature suited to a useful downstream duty.
The warmed medium passes through additional zones while equipment remains within its operating limits.
The resulting higher-temperature return transfers useful energy to multi-stage thermal distillation.
InputCompute heat
→RecoveryValora circuit
→Useful outputFresh water
100 MW data-center screening case
Digital capacity and a second useful product.
- ~90 MW
- compute at a target PUE of 1.11
- ~75 MWₜₕ
- compute heat that may be recovered
- ~5 million m³/yr
- fresh-water screening case
- ~0.75
- potential energy reuse factor
Flexible scale
The cascade may cross racks, pods, clusters or a data center.
Valora defines thermal zones by function—not by a single equipment boundary. The final arrangement can follow the compute architecture and the downstream heat-user requirements.
Rack groups as thermal stages
Multiple rack groups may be connected in a controlled cascade while maintaining normal velocity and equipment limits.
Pods as thermal stages
Separate pods can form a higher-level cascade without making the pod the only possible boundary.
Zones as thermal stages
A land-based data center, marine hold or compute campus can be divided into functional recovery zones.
Water flexibility
Recover heat where water has value.
Seawater · brine · wastewater
The downstream water system can be selected for the site, water chemistry and required product.
Onshore · near-shore · offshore
Valora is not limited to GFPSO. It can be evaluated wherever large compute loads and a useful thermal-water duty coexist.
From method to deployment
Valora needs a pilot.
Pelican Engineering is seeking compute, thermal-management and water-technology partners to demonstrate and optimize the concept.
Discuss a pilot