UK-based colocation provider GridJet Datacentres has announced £1.1 million ($1.4m) in energy savings after transitioning to a renewable energy contract.

The Leeds-based firm partnered with energy broker Fidelity Energy to source the 3.8 million kWh required annually by one of its new estates.

The resulting bespoke deal followed an audit by Fidelity Energy of GridJet’s consumption patterns.

DCD has approached both companies for comment.

“This project demonstrates that renewable procurement and financial resilience are not mutually exclusive,” said Fidelity Energy’s CEO, John Haw. “By modeling half-hourly demand, analyzing capacity requirements, and structuring contracts around real operational tolerances, organizations can secure renewable supply while materially reducing cost exposure. For large energy users, visibility and governance are just as important as price.”

Founded in 2023, GridJet is a colocation provider that operates a single data center with Tier I and Tier III data halls outside Leeds. The facility is located within the Tristram Centre in Holbeck. Go Daddy operates out of the same location.

Fidelity Energy’s audit analyzed the firm’s consumption every 30 minutes, and predicted how demand from the latter’s new estate would interact with network capacity requirements and standing charges. The energy broker used this data to assemble a half-hourly electricity contract that exclusively used renewable energy.

The contract, said Fidelity Energy in a statement, was “structured specifically to accommodate the fluctuating volume tolerances typical of data center environments.”

The broker will also continue to provide GridJet with continuous monitoring of its consumption and performance, encompassing kVA analysis to assess the firm’s capacity requirements and identify new opportunities to further reduce its standing charges.

The deal between Fidelity Energy and GridJet comes amid rising energy costs for the British data center sector generally, as demand for its services continues to increase.

In February, the UK energy regulator Ofgem warned that the amount of power sought from the grid by 140 proposed data center projects would exceed the current national peak energy consumption of 50GW, putting added pressure on power companies and the National Grid to increase the supply of electricity over the next decade.