Cloud&Heat is a startup company focusing on environmental-friendly and cost-effective cloud computing. Cloud&Heat is developing a dark cloud server system that can be directly coupled to a heating system of a residential home or office building. With this technology Cloud&Heat aims to establish a new era of environmentally friendly computing technology with efficient heat recovery. Cloud&Heat has been one of the five finalists of the German Industry Innovation Award (“Innovationspreis der deutschen Wirtschaft”) in the category startups. The German Innovation Award is one of the oldest and most important German innovation prizes.