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The Techne Connect Mark Bjornsgaard, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer of Deep GreenIn this episode Mark Bjornsgaard, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer of Deep Green, shares his journey into entrepreneurship and the thinking behind building a new model for data centre infrastructure.Mark discusses the importance of testing assumptions, killing weak ideas early, and approaching entrepreneurship through disciplined experimentation rather than blind belief.The conversation explores Deep Green’s mission to reuse heat from data centres, the growing power challenge driven by AI, and why distributed computing could reshape how data centres are built in the future.Thank you for listening to The Techne Co...

2026-04-1453 min

Digitel Talk Turning Data Centres Waste Heat into Community Power with Mark BjornsgaardAt Connected Britain, host Ian Ginn sits down with Mark Bjornsgaard, Chief Innovation Officer of Deep Green Technologies, to discuss how data centres can drive both digital progress and environmental change.Deep Green’s revolutionary approach captures waste heat from AI-powered data centres and reuses it to heat community swimming pools and district heating systems — saving energy, cutting costs, and reducing carbon emissions.Mark also shares insights on the challenges of scaling sustainable tech in the UK, the future of AI infrastructure, and why he believes green inno...

2025-10-1021 min

Lab to Market Leadership with Chris Reichhelm Challenging Deep Tech Norms: Adopting Lean Principles from Lab to Market | Mark BjornsgaardIn this captivating episode of Lab to Market Leadership, Chris Reichhelm speaks with Mark Bjornsgaard, the visionary founder and CEO of System Two Group. With a track record of eight successful exits - notably the £200 million sale of Deep Green Technologies to Octopus Energy - Mark brings a powerful, often counterintuitive, perspective on building businesses, especially in the Deep Tech sector. Mark challenges the conventional wisdom of ‘build-measure-learn,’ arguing passionately for a hypothesis-first approach. He explores why the most valuable skill for an entrepreneur is the ability to ruthlessly ‘kill’ ideas that lack market validation, even if they're te...

2025-06-1758 min

Rare Earth Powering Our Robot OverlordsDatacentres are big business, and vast numbers of them are being built around the world. In the UK, Amazon has announced plans to invest £8bn over the next five years building new datacentres, £3bn has been spent in the UK by Amazon’s cloud computing business since 2020 and Google is spending millions on a new centre in Hertfordshire. All this data handling is necessary because we're storing more of it and making more complex AI internet searches. The energy cost of this shift is so huge that the big tech companies are commissioning their own nuclear power stat...

2025-06-1352 min

Between Data & Risk E51: Heat, Waste, Wisdom, and Computing Power with Mark BjornsgaardIn this Between Data and Risk episode, Dr. Marian Siwiak and Artur Guja engage with Mark Bjornsgaard of Deep Green to explore innovative solutions for utilizing waste heat from data centers. The conversation delves into the potential for community benefits, the evolving landscape of data center clients, and the intersection of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors with cost efficiency. Mark shares insights from his entrepreneurial journey, the importance of local solutions in energy transition, and reflections on capitalism and social responsibility. Takeaways - 90% of the heat from data centers...

2025-06-0236 min

Environment Variables Deep Green TechnologiesIn this episode of Environment Variables, host Chris Adams sits down with Mark Bjornsgaard of Deep Green to explore a transformative approach to data center design and sustainability. Mark shares insights into how Deep Green reimagines traditional data centers by co-locating them in urban areas to provide heat reuse for facilities like swimming pools, district heating systems, and industrial processes. They discuss the challenges of planning and policy, the rise of high-density computing driven by AI, and the potential for data centers to become integral components of community infrastructure. Tune in to learn about the intersection of digital innovation...

2025-01-1645 min

Solving for Climate Mark Bjornsgaard: The free heat revolutionData centres are not the most glamorous topic of discussion but they are everywhere, powering our modern, digital economy. But they can also power swimming pools, breweries and laundries, as Mark Bjornsgaard tells Hannah and Rob on this episode. 97% of the electricity that goes into a computer comes out as heat. It’s an incredibly inefficient process, and more often than not this heat isn’t used. So, rather than building these data centres in the middle of nowhere, Mark’s company Deep Green is taking computing power to where heat is needed, offering a precious resource to communities across...

2024-11-2121 min

Data Center Go-to-Market Podcast Ep. 40 Mark Bjornsgaard, Founder and CEO of Deep Green Technologies | Data Center Go-to-Market Podcasthttps://www.dcsmi.com/newsletter Subscribe to the Data Center Sales and Marketing Newsletter (DCSMI)In episode 40 of the Data Center Go-to-Market Podcast, Mark Bjornsgaard, CEO and founder of Deep Green Technologies, shares his journey into the world of heat reuse and sustainability in the data center industry. Listeners will discover the origins of this transformative concept, tracing its roots back to a pioneering white paper by Microsoft. Explore the role of hyperscalers in driving innovation, the benefits of decentralized data centers, and strategies for navigating careers in this rapidly evolving space. Whether you're an aspiring professional...

2024-10-2955 min

DDI - Demystifying Digital Infrastructure How Data Centres Are Disrupting the Energy SectorKicking off Season three of the DDI podcast, Mark Yeeles discusses with Mark Bjornsgaard, CEO and founder of Deep Green Technologies, how heat can be recaptured from distributed edge micro data centres for social good, for free. He outlines Deep Green’s growing deployment of data furnace technology into sites which require hot water, such as swimming pools, building vital compute infrastructure whilst providing significant additional, quantifiable ESG benefits. Mark explains how Octopus Energy’s £200m stake in the firm will further the adoption of Deep Green’s recaptured heat technology across the UK.

2024-08-0125 min

ESG Matters @ Ashurst Podcast Game Changers and Transition Makers: Season 1 wrap-upThe tables are turned in this season one wrap-up episode of Game Changers and Transition Makers, with new series co-host Lorraine Johnston, Partner in our global finance regulatory practice, interviews Ashurst Risk Advisory Partner Elena Lambros about her key takeaways from the first 13 episodes of the series. In this episode, you will hear snippets of the inspiring stories that have shaped season one. Highlights include: Chris Pensa's work in incorporating rewilding projects to foster environmental awareness Mark Bjornsgaard's innovative use of heat generated by computers at Deep Green to address environmental challenges The importance of sustainable...

2024-07-3114 min

ESG Matters @ Ashurst Podcast Game Changers and Transition Makers: Repurposing data centre heat for social goodMark Bjornsgaard and his co-founder saw an opportunity to turn waste into wealth. "What's that tub of massage oil in a home-brew bucket?" asked a day one investor. "It's free heat," was the reply that marked the beginning of an energy revolution. In this compelling discussion, Elena Lambros uncovers how Mark's venture capital experience and a chance to impress a major utility company led to the birth of Deep Green. Initially viewed with scepticism, the company's technology harnesses the excessive heat generated by data centres and repurposes it to heat community swimming pools, providing both environmental and...

2024-05-2120 min

Inside Data Centre Podcast Mark Bjornsgaard CEO & Founder Deep Green Technologies: What do you get if you cross a data centre and a swimming pool?Send us Fan MailOn this episode I am joined by Mark Bjornsgaard, CEO & Founder of Deep Green Technologies. Deep Green are on a mission to recapture the heat your compute generates and repurposes it for social good, for free.We discuss Mark's career and how he first became aware of the opportunity to recapture compute heat and repurpose it for social good. We then discuss Deep Green Technologies. Deep Green hit the media headlines in 2023 when they announced they were working with a swimming pool in Exmouth (UK) to utilise waste heat t...

2024-02-0931 min

Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet Mark Bjornsgaard - Impact EntrepreneurMark Bjornsgaard is the Founder and CEO of Deep Green which decarbonises commercial and domestic heating. He invests in projects that help make the world a better place. Mark shares some of the lessons he's learned along the way to help new impact entrepreneurs make their impact.

2023-10-1351 min

DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show Episode 31 - Mark Bjornsgaard of Deep Green on heating swimming pools with data center heatIn March this year, a swimming pool in Devon, UK, was the unlikely setting for the most widely covered data center story (so far) of 2023. A small immersion-cooled high-performance computing module from Deep Green is giving its heat to the swimming pool, saving Exmouth Leisure Centres £20,000 ($24,000) per year. It's not the first time data center waste heat has been harnessed. It's not even the first time it has heated a swimming pool. But Deep Green CEO Mark Bjornsgaard tells us that, this time, all the pieces are in place to make the idea mainstream. In...

2023-05-0440 min

SMAF-NewsBot Can heat reuse make data centres truly sustainable? - Tech MonitorShare this article Copy Link Share on X Share on Linkedin Share on Facebook Mark Bjornsgaard is getting used to the attention. "Ten days ago, I wasn't," says the founder of Deep Green, referring to the unprecedented publicity his firm achieved by installing one of its digital boilers to heat a swimming pool in Exmouth, Devon. Something about using the waste heat generated from servers - a resource that apparently few people knew existed - seemed to capture the imagination of the British public. Since then, Bjornsgaard has been inundated by requests from other...

2023-04-0409 min