Plan Around Stranded Energy For homes and data centers
Assess whether spare power can carry Bitcoin proof-of-work at your site. The pool is live and non-custodial; Melanin provides verified onboarding and feasibility review, not a managed fleet or a payout service.
Access Status
Data centers and stranded-energy operators can request access now. Public pages describe what is live today.
- Configured onboarding
- Verify an email to open your dashboard. Connection details are private and are issued there once your access is approved.
- Alpha
- Energy access starts with a managed feasibility and pilot review; mining activation remains gated.
Assess → Design → Prepare
Assess
Review surplus-energy windows, workload constraints, and hardware with an operator. No Click installer, agent, or automated fleet deployment is available today.
Design
A future pilot could evaluate Bitcoin proof-of-work hardware, secure gateway controls, and live load control — feasibility sizes each for the site.
Prepare
Verify your email and we can record what you want to try. The fee is already published — 97% miner, 3% platform, in the coinbase. Wallet routing and reporting are operated as separate services.
The data center opportunity
Data centres use a lot of power, and much of it sits idle. We help you work out whether spare power could mine instead.
Excess Energy Sources
- Renewable intermittency (solar/wind peaks)
- Cooling system overhead capacity
- Grid demand response windows
- Spare power sitting idle
Excess Compute Sources
- Idle server capacity during off-peak
- Development/staging environment downtime
- Low utilization periods
- Decommissioned hardware awaiting disposal
Planning considerations
- Existing hardware review
- Assess current servers and GPUs before considering a pilot.
- Energy feasibility
- Understand surplus-energy windows and constraints — measurement decides what a site can carry.
- Compute suitability
- Map hardware classes against a site’s constraints. The pool accepts standard mining hardware; Melanin does not operate or manage a fleet on your behalf.
- Grid constraints
- Document peak-price and grid-stress constraints for pilot design.
- Sustainability inputs
- Identify the inputs a future pilot would need for renewable attribution and efficiency reporting.
- Non-Custodial Design
- The design avoids holding private keys or funds: 97% to the miner and 3% to the platform are written into the block’s own coinbase.
Pilot criteria
Capacity
Identified energy capacity (minimum 10kW)
Stakeholders
IT/facilities stakeholder buy-in
Metrics
Clear success metrics defined
Learnings
Willing to share learnings (anonymized)
Where to go next
Academy track
Infrastructure & Operations — running hardware at more than hobby scale.
Brief
Read the enterprise planning overview.
Support
Planning questions, feasibility support, and enterprise contact about fleet deployments and integrations.
Public explorer
Pool statistics are public: hashrate, shares, and uptime. Anyone can look up one address they already know; nobody can download the list, and rig names are never published.
Non-custodial by construction is the direct-payment design. The published fee policy is 97/3 to miner and platform. Bitcoin is the public path. Confirm actual payment in your wallet; a dashboard record alone is not proof. Onboarding needs a verified email, private endpoints stay off public pages, and public code is reviewed before release.
