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The ongoing energy crisis has threatened countless sectors, businesses, and institutions, including the UK’s public swimming pools.

But, in a pioneering cost-management solution, the waste heat from small data centres is being used to heat the pools – for free.

The initiative has been trialled in Devon by Mark Bjornsgaard, CEO of Deep Green.

“It’s great for them – they get to reduce the cost of heating the pool and reduce the amount of carbon they use, and good for us as we can offer cheaper computer services because we don’t have the cooling costs,” commented Bjornsgaard, speaking on BBC Radio 4.

Thanks to the overwhelming success of the trial, as many as 20 UK pools may be upgraded to integrate the solution this year.