Deep Green, a company that deploys small data centers close to swimming pools, is planning a new deployment in Manchester.

The company is to deploy 400kW of compute hardware within a 150 sqm (1,614 sq ft) space at the Move Urmston Leisure center in Urmston, southwest of Manchester. It will be the company’s first deployment in the UK’s Northwest, with the waste heat set to warm the pool water.

The company was granted approval for the deployment by Trafford Council earlier this year. It will use direct-to-chip and air cooling. The eight-rack facility offers up to 60kW per rack.

“Our 400kW data center will provide tens of thousands of pounds of free heat energy each year to the leisure centre, and will save hundreds of tons of carbon in its lifetime,” Deep Green said.

Jo Cherrett, CEO of Trafford Leisure, a community interest company wholly owned by Trafford Council, which manages leisure in Trafford on behalf of the council, added: “We are so excited to get this project underway following the council’s approval. Our partnership with Deep Green firmly positions Trafford Leisure as an environmental trailblazer.”

Deep Green locates high-performance computing servers at sites where their heat can be fully used, offering that heat for free to users, including swimming pools.

UK utility Octopus Energy is an investor in the firm, which aims to deploy 300MW of distributed capacity across Europe and the US.

The company launched in 2023, deploying hardware at a leisure center in Exmouth, Devon. Last year, the company was gearing up to deploy hardware next door to the York Stadium Leisure Complex in Huntingdon, which would be used to heat the swimming pool.

UK cloud provider Civo and post-production firm Dirty Looks are known customers of Deep Green.

On its website, Deep Green said it has one facility live, three in development, and one in planning.

The 1.1MW DG03 facility is live in Swindon. The company lists a 400kW site in development in Manchester (DG01) and another 500kW in development in York. Another 4MW is in development in Bradford, and 20MW is listed as in planning around Lincoln. Further details on the latter two haven’t been shared.