Company to build facility next to district heating energy center
UK data center firm Deep Green has filed to develop a data center in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
As reported by the BBC and others, Deep Green has filed to build a new data center next to an in-development district heating scheme in the Yorkshire city.
Filed with the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, the company wants to build the facility on land to the east of the in-development Bradford Energy Centre, bounded by Listerhills and Thornton Roads.
The site totals 3,420 sqm (36,810 sq ft), with some 1,275 sqm (13,725 sq ft) of floorspace to be developed. The two-story project would see four data halls built, with four diesel generators placed. The facility would be equipped with dry air coolers as a backup.
A decision on the proposal is expected from the council in October.
Bradford Energy Limited was granted planning permission for the Bradford Energy Centre in November 2023. Deep Green is looking to develop its data center on an unused eastern part of the site earmarked for temporary contractor use and materials storage during the construction of the energy center.
A planned water source heat pump (WHSP) building will facilitate the connection between the data center and the energy center, but this will be subject to a separate planning application.
In documents, the company said the development will provide around 5MW of waste heat as an additional heat source for use by the Bradford Energy Network, 1Energy’s local district heating network that is due to launch next year. The £75 million ($99m) project is set to heat the equivalent of around 10,000 homes.
Architectural and engineering firm Noor is working on both the data center and the energy center on the site.
Deep Green grows into US
Deep Green traditionally locates high-performance computing servers at sites where their heat can be fully used, offering that heat for free to users, including swimming pools. The company has also moved into developing full buildings.
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 500kW of 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.
The 1.1MW DG03 facility is live in Swindon, and the company has a 400kW site in development in Manchester (DG01). Another 20MW project is listed on the company’s website as in planning around Lincoln.
Deep Green is also looking to expand into the US. The company lists plans for a 20MW facility in Lansing, Michigan.
Set to span 6,000 sqm (64585 sq ft), DC06 is being built into the former Cooley Law School Campus, and will supply free heat energy to the Lansing Board of Water and Light hot water system.
The 400-rack facility is set to utilize Rear Door, Direct-to-Chip, and Immersion cooling systems, supporting up to 400-600 kW per rack.
The company describes DG06 as the first data center in a “substantial pipeline” of capacity across the United States.
