For more than a century, electric water heaters have done exactly one thing: convert electricity directly into heat. It was simple, reliable, and nearly impossible to improve. But what if the same electricity could bring extra value before becoming heat without changing the amount of hot water your home receives?
Today, that idea moves from theory to reality. Following its award-winning debut at CES 2026, Superheat has officially opened Founding Batch preorders for the Superheat H1C, the world’s first computing-powered water heater, allowing homeowners to generate Bitcoin while producing the same hot water they already use every day.
The idea of using computing hardware to heat water has existed for decades. What didn’t exist was a practical economic model. Today, advances in high-performance Bitcoin computing, efficient liquid cooling, and modern thermal management have made it possible to transform what was once considered wasted heat into useful household energy.
A traditional electric water heater is one of the largest energy-consuming appliances in the home, typically accounting for around 18% of household electricity use. Once the water is heated, the value of that electricity is gone. Superheat reimagines that equation. Rather than converting electricity directly into heat, the H1C allows the electricity to perform valuable computational work first. The system then captures more than 99% of the heat naturally generated during that process to produce household hot water.
