Deep Green and Zendo partner

British digital infrastructure company Deep Green has partnered with energy tech innovator Zendo to power a new generation of small-scale, AI-ready data centres with renewable energy and intelligent energy management.

The partnership begins at Deep Green’s flagship site in Urmston, Greater Manchester, where Zendo has procured a clean energy supply contract for the 400kW site. 

The Urmston site is designed for high-performance computing and AI workloads. It supports rack densities of up to 150kW, with excess heat from the servers captured and reused to warm Trafford Leisure Centre’s swimming pool - saving the centre around £80,000 a year and reducing C02 emissions. 

This is part of Deep Green’s model of locating distributed, modular data centres close to where heat energy can be put to use in local facilities such as swimming pools, district heating networks and public buildings. 

Demand for data centre capacity has risen exponentially with the widespread adoption of AI, yet grid constraints and planning delays continue to slow new infrastructure in the UK. Deep Green’s unique approach allows it to deploy new capacity in weeks rather than years. Through its partnership with Zendo, this is combined with a flexible energy strategy that scales in step with the facility’s future compute demands, while maintaining a fully renewable power supply. 

This is particularly critical for AI workloads, where power demand can increase sharply and unpredictably, and where the ability to scale energy usage quickly and economically is a meaningful competitive advantage.

Clean energy for the Urmston site will be provided by ENGIE, with Zendo’s “Energy OS” software supporting this through monitoring, forecasting and capacity optimisation, making energy a real differentiator as Deep Green expands its UK platform.

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

Drew Barrett, COO and Co-Founder of Zendo Energy, said: "Deep Green has an ambitious vision to accelerate data centre deployments at pace, and we're proud to be the energy technology partner making sure energy is never the bottleneck. 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 centres should look like: flexible, sustainable and built for scale."