How Colt DCS Reached 90% Renewable Energy Procurement
Hyperscale and enterprise data centre provider Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has released its third annual sustainability report, showcasing its ESG progress in 2024.
Operating 13 data centres across Europe and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, the company is developing 19 additional facilities, indicating both growth and a commitment to sustainable development principles.
In 2024, Colt DCS expanded its operational footprint with new sites in Osaka Keihanna, Japan and Mumbai, India, while steadfastly adhering to stringent environmental sustainability goals.
The company achieved a 32% decrease in absolute greenhouse gas emissions from the baseline year of 2019 across Scopes 1, 2 and 3.
Its Scope 3 emissions, representing 98% of the total carbon footprint in 2024, also fell by 26% against the baseline.
In part these improvements were impacted by the company's renewable energy procurement which reached 90%.
Colt DCS maintains EcoVadis sustainability ranking
For the third year, Colt DCS earned a Platinum score from EcoVadis, placing it among the top 1% of organisations assessed globally for ESG excellence.
It received additional acclaim at the Data Centre Solutions Awards, where it was honoured with the Best Colocation Provider Sustainability Innovation of the Year award.
This accolade stems from successful ventures, such as the redirection of 95% of waste from landfill at its London North facility and the fact that 91% of its suppliers, measured by emissions, have committed to science-based climate targets.
- 95% of waste diverted from landfill at London North (UK).
- 91% of suppliers by emissions have science-based climate targets in place.
- Striving to design all new facilities with renewable electricity supply, high energy efficient cooling systems and, where local infrastructure allows, waste heat recovery.
New facility designs feature renewable electricity options and high-efficiency cooling systems, along with strategies for waste heat recovery, where permitted by local infrastructure.
Colt DCS aims to cut its absolute Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions by 90% from the 2019 baseline by 2045, focusing on strategies such as comprehensive renewable energy procurement, deployment of sustainable data centre infrastructure and minimising embodied carbon in new projects.
RMZ infrastructure partnership to expand Indian operations
In 2024, Colt DCS launched a joint venture with RMZ Infrastructure, enhancing its presence in India's high-demand markets.
This partnership is pivotal in executing Colt DCS's greater strategy for growth throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Employee satisfaction also saw improvement, with 87% of employees endorsing Colt DCS as a favourable workplace, a rise from 83% in 2023.
The launch of the Employee Value Proposition and the AI-powered learning platform MyLearningHub, designed to foster professional growth, contributed to this positive outcome.
Colt DCS’s commitment to security is reflected in maintaining ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications, which address crucial infrastructure protection concerns.
The company introduced a Risk Policy & Procedure inclusive of assessments in Climate Change Risk via specific and functional risk registers.
- The company launched the DCS Employee Value Proposition (EVP) and introduced the award winning, AI powered “MyLearningHub” to support continuous learning and professional development.
- 87% of employees recommend Colt DCS as a great place to work (up from 83% in 2023).
“For Colt DCS, 2024 was a year of significant growth. When we started our hyperscale journey nine years ago, the cloud market was US$111bn,” says Niclas Sanfridsson, CEO of Colt DCS.
“Today, it is over US$760bn and is projected to grow even further due to the rising demand in streaming, cloud and AI tools and services.”
The cloud infrastructure market expansion has driven demand for data centre capacity across multiple regions. Colt DCS entered the hyperscale sector when cloud services represented a fraction of current market value.
“I’m especially proud that we were able to help our customers scale and accelerate during this time of transformation by staying true to our core values: trust, respect, unite, sustain and trailblaze,” says Niclas.
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