UK data center developer Era4 is planning to deploy capacity at a landfill site in Canterbury.

Era4 (previously known as Carbon3.ai) has filed with Kent County Council to develop a data center at the Shelford Farm Estate on Broad Oak Road in Canterbury.

First filed in November, the Shelford Data Centre will total around 13,000 sq ft (1,210 sqm), according to submitted documents.

The site is a landfill and waste management processing facility operated by Valencia Waste Management. The data center would be on unused land at the site previously utilized for composting operations.

The facility will be connected by private wire to the Valencia Energy Centre gas generation station, fed by methane from the landfill.

The site will be supported by rooftop solar, and the facility will use closed-loop liquid cooling with adiabatic assistance.

A Change.org petition against the project has 119 signatures at the time of writing.

Launched last year as Carbon3.ai and rebranded to Era4 this year, the company aims to deploy 100,000 GPUs across more than 30 locations.

Era4 has projects planned in Derbyshire and Newport. The company has seen a proposal for a site in Anglesey rejected.

The company has links to Valencia, sharing executives. Valencia Energy is part of the Valencia Waste group, one of the UK’s largest landfill operators. The company has seven active landfills and more than a dozen closed sites.

Era4 and Valencia have previously announced a partnership to deploy data center capacity at Valencia landfill sites, utilizing gas.