MicroLink Data Centers Technology dossier
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Where we are developing intellectual property
and first to market solutions.
Who we are
MicroLink Data Centers builds high density, liquid cooled compute inside industrial host partner facilities: places that already hold the power and already buy the heat. Almost every watt a chip draws leaves the silicon as heat. Everyone else throws it away. We treat it as a second product.
What we do
We develop and operate compute across three scales on one shared stack: a 50 kW edge block, a 1.25 MW pod, and campuses from 10 MW up to 1 GW. No other company is developing a continuous range across these applications. Every scale runs the same software, the same thermal philosophy and the same dry cooler backed architecture, so what is proven at one scale carries to the next.
How we do it
We standardise the hardware and develop the layer above it. Cooling distribution, power modules and IT hardware are standardised with Vertiv and other leading manufacturers. MicroLink's own development, and its IP, sits in control, monitoring and management software, in system and solution design for compute inside industrial sites, in 800 V DC power, and in the systems that couple generation optimisation and heat recovery to compute. Delivered performance is reported as ERE alongside PUE, from live metering.
What the IP is worth
Our first three filings were all submitted in 2026, focused on the system, the category and the method that make heat a second product. Each is valued three ways: what it earns in use as a product, what it would cost to licence in if someone else owned it, and what it commands at a sale on a ten year horizon.
The engine behind these numbers is the delivered heat. One MW of IT rejects close to 0.9 MW thermal, and delivered into a host partner's boiler or digester load it displaces roughly $85k to $190k of fuel per MW each year at current US industrial gas prices, corroborated by Stockholm's open district heating market, which prices recovered data center heat at roughly €175k per MW per year. The owned control and delivery layer is what converts a free, unreliable by product into a contracted thermal input, and regulation is moving the same way: Germany mandates a minimum energy reuse factor for new data centers from July 2026, rising in 2028, turning heat recovery from an option into a licence to operate.
The ranges are triangulated three ways: royalty benchmarks for industrial control and energy software at 5 to 10 percent of the revenue the layer enables, a licensor share of 25 to 50 percent for the licence in column, and exit multiples read from the sector's own transactions, including Ecolab's $4.75B acquisition of CoolIT at 8.6 times revenue and Schneider Electric's $850M for a 75 percent interest in Motivair. The broad category filing carries most of the portfolio's value; the method filing carries the most legal risk and is drafted against hardware for exactly that reason. Exit ranges span deployment scenarios of 50 to 400 MW at year ten.
| Filing | What it protects | Value in use | To licence in | Value at exit, 10 yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML 001Wastewater deployment | The pod deployed onto a wastewater treatment host: the first embodiment, proven and priority dated. | $40kper MW per year | $14kper MW per year | $3M to $45Mcomparable transactions |
| ML-IND-001Industrial Symbiosis Data Center System | The pod onto any industrial host: wastewater, brewery, agriculture, food processing. The category, not a site. | $135kper MW per year | $50kper MW per year | $25M to $380Mcomparable transactions |
| ML-TRN-001Thermal Mode Transition Method | Uninterrupted switching between host delivery and rejection: the uptime layer that makes the pod bankable. | $90kper MW per year | $32kper MW per year | $8M to $170Mcomparable transactions |
| Portfolio | One product: a pod that fits onto any host, protected end to end. | $210kper MW per year | $90kper MW per year | $40M to $560Mbase case near $170M |
