A new UK cloud provider is planning a data center in Stoke-on-Trent.

Last week, the Stoke-on-Trent city council announced that plans had been submitted for a data center at the Spode Works in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

The plans have been submitted by Spode Works Regeneration Ltd as part of a multi-million-pound expansion of the Potbank section of Spode.

Full details on the data center haven’t been shared, and the application isn’t yet up on the city’s planning portal at the time of writing. Spode Works Regeneration Ltd is part of real estate firm Dog & Bone Group.

According to the company’s website, a data center is planned in Building 4A of the Potbank area of the Spode works.

Stoke Nub News and Daily Focus report new UK cloud player, Greenweaver, is the company set to use the data center. According to Greenweaver’s LinkedIn, the GW003 site at Spode will offer up to 30MW.

Launched this year, Greenweaver aims to offer “Sovereign, low-carbon AI & HPC compute,” and utilize direct-to-chip cooling.

The company says it is building a network of distributed modular AI/HPC data centers that offer waste heat to local district heating networks. With modules starting at 500kW, Greenweaver claims to have more than 250MW of capacity secured and plans to launch initially in the UK and Portugal, with deployments planned in the US, Germany, and Spain.

The firm said it is launching in Q1 2026 with a 500kW cluster of Nvidia H100 & RTX 4090 GPUs. A deployment in Lisbon, Portugal, is also planned next year, but few details are available.

On LinkedIn, some Greenweaver staff suggest further UK deployments are planned across Manchester, Birmingham, and Glasgow. Further details on any of its deployments haven’t been shared.

Greenweaver is led by Arnie Sriskandarajah, who has previously had roles at several investment and venture capital firms, including Ground Floor Ventures, Round Hill Capital, ATS Holdings, Aurea Finvest, Cera, and others.

Sriskandarajah told local press: “Our mission is to build a sustainable backbone for the UK’s AI future. At Spode Works, we’re proving how high-performance computing can power local economies while helping Britain reach net zero.”

Ashley Booth, director at SWRL, added: “This major collaboration with GreenWeaver and our planning submission mark a bold new chapter for Spode Works and Potbank: one where sustainability, creativity, and skills go hand in hand to deliver for the city, its communities, and the next generation of makers and innovators.”

The 10-acre Spode factory site was founded in the 1700s and produced bone china ceramics for some 230 years. Spode went into administration in 2008, and the site was acquired by the city council, with Portmeirion taking over the rest of Spode’s business. The works include around a dozen Grade II listed buildings.

Councillor Finlay Gordon-McCusker, cabinet member for transport, infrastructure, and regeneration at Stoke-on-Trent City Council, said: “This is another great success for Spode and for Stoke-on-Trent. It shows how government funding and private investment can come together to drive innovation, skills, and clean growth.”

Dog and Bone is a property investment company investing in derelict buildings in Stoke to develop into aparthotels, offices, restaurants, and events spaces.

Earlier this year, the Stoke-on-Trent City council announced a major new regeneration project for the works alongside UK property development firm Capital&Centric. The initiative will include residential properties and creative workspaces to serve the area’s creative technology community, including digital design, gaming, animation, and other creative industries.