UK-based data center developer Deep Green has partnered with Zendo Energy, a UK energy software firm, to combine modular data center deployments with clean energy systems.

The partnership’s first project will be at Deep Green’s flagship data center in Urmston, Greater Manchester, with Zendo procuring a clean energy supply contract to power the 400kW site.

Engie has been tapped to provide energy to the site, with Zendo deploying its “Energy OS” software to provide energy monitoring, forecasting, and capacity optimization.

“Deep Green has an ambitious vision to accelerate data center deployments at pace, and we’re proud to be the energy technology partner making sure energy is never the bottleneck,” said Drew Barrett, COO and co-founder of Zendo Energy.

“The flexibility we’ve built into this contract is designed to grow alongside their trajectory, and we see this as a blueprint for what the next generation of data centers should look like: flexible, sustainable, and built for scale.”

The data center is central to Deep Green’s offering, with the company supplying excess heat from the facility’s servers to warm Trafford Leisure Center’s swimming pool.

“Zendo has been a strong partner in shaping our power procurement strategy for our data centers. We are excited to draw on their expertise to develop a highly efficient, cost-effective approach that maximizes value for our colocation clients by fully capturing the advantages of heat reuse,” said Hazel Lim, CFO, Deep Green.

Deep Green launched in 2023, deploying hardware at a leisure center in Exmouth, Devon. Deep Green has previously said it was gearing up to deploy 500kW of hardware next door to the York Stadium Leisure Complex in Huntingdon, which would be used to heat the swimming pool.

Zendo emerged from stealth last year, following a $2.2 million pre-seed funding round. The company has built what it calls an ‘Energy OS’ for data centers, focused on energy procurement, capacity planning, and reporting, with embedded predictive analytics and forecasting tools.

The company claims its platform can help unlock stranded capacity and deliver up to 25 percent in monthly energy cost savings. While most energy brokers treat data centers as a single large customer, Zendo says that it looks at the individual workloads from data center users to help cater to the differing needs.

Last September, the firm signed an energy supply contract with Galaxy Data Centers for 40GWh of energy annually to power its Redhill data center in Greater London.