It is the tech company Agtira and the food group Greenfood that are merging their bags. The facility in Boden will be one of a total of ten around the country.

"The cucumbers can be sold immediately after they are picked from the plant, produced in a sustainable way with minimal water consumption," says Ted Stenshed, CEO of the Greenfood Fresh Produce business area.

Therefore, the choice fell on Boden

The fact that the choice falls on Boden is justified, among other things, by the municipality's well-developed infrastructure and strategic position in Norrbotten. For Agtira, it will be the company's northernmost outpost to date, since there are already facilities in Sundsvall and Skellefteå.

"The potential to utilise residual heat from data centers and other industries is a huge and often untapped resource," says Pontus Lamberg, Chief Operating Officer at Agtira.

In the clip, Pontus Lamberg tells where the large facility will be located in Boden.

From server hall to restaurant

SVT has previously told about the Luleå company Containing Greens AB, which grows vegetables from a server hall's waste heat. Something for which they were praised at a political conference in Brussels as recently as December.

In the clip below you can see the vegetables' journey from server hall to restaurant.

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Luleå residents Moa Johansson, CEO, and Ellinor Emilsson, operations manager, show the vegetables' path from waste heat to restaurant in the clip above. Photo: Ulrika Wänkkö/SVT