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I'm an absolute beginner in all things botany/agriculture related, and don't have much experience in electrical engineering. However this idea is something I fi

I'm an absolute beginner in all things botany/agriculture related, and don't have much experience in electrical engineering. However this idea is something I find really interesting and I've started researching it more. I've been playing with the idea of using existing physical infrastructure for building farms. Specifically, server farms. I'm imagining isolated racks with individually, fully controlled environments down to temperature, pressure, humidity, light, etc. What are your thoughts on the efficiency of a system like that? Is it outside the realm of commercial viability? Do you think such a system is still worth pursuing outside of commercial contexts (say, in the case where we NEED such systems? ie. space, deserts, extreme cold, etc.)

bjelkeman-again 7y ago
We live in Stockholm, Sweden, where the average winter temperature is -1.5 C. The coldest days it drops down to -25 C (maybe one or two days a year). We want to have delivery of vegetables 365 days a year from our facilities, which means some type of indoor facility. To me the smallest size which makes economic sense here is from one hectare and up (10000 m2). The bigger the better. We compete with the average greenhouse grower in the Netherlands, among others, which has four hectares. For desert coastlines, check out Seawater Greenhouse. I know the founder well. https://seawatergreenhouse.com https://seawatergreenhouse.com Other extreme environments are very interesting to me, but I don’t foresee anything in rack size that makes economic sense. Food requires quite a lot of space to produce. But I could be wrong.