Colt Leads the Charge for Data Centre Sustainability in 2025

The hyperscale and enterprise data centre provider, Colt Data Centre Services (DCS), has published its third annual sustainability report, outlining the company's ESG performance across 2024.

Colt DCS physical presence around the globe is already sprawling, with a portfolio including 13 operational data centres across Europe and APAC, but the company has plans for some aggressive expansions, with 19 new facilities already in the pipeline.

During the past year, Colt has launched new sites in Osaka and Mumbai, but its expansion has not prevented the company from steadfastly adhering to its environmental objectives.

Most notably, Colt reports a 32% reduction in absolute greenhouse gas emissions for Scopes 1, 2 and 3 when compared to its 2019 baseline.

Perhaps most impressively, the data centre heavyweight has achieved zero Scope 2 market-based emissions thanks to its renewable electricity procurement.

Like the majority of companies, Scope 3 emissions make up most of Colt's carbon footprint (98%), but the firm has reported a decrease of 26% from its 2019 baseline. 

Colt DCS reaps the rewards for its focus on sustainability

The report reveals that, for the third successive year, Colt has received a Platinum score from ESG ratings agency EcoVadis, positioning itself within the top 1% of global organisations for its sustainability.

Aside from the EcoVadis rating, Colt also won big at the Data Centre Solutions Awards, where it was honoured with the Best Colocation Provider Sustainability Innovation of the Year award.

This particular award acknowledged Colt's new waste reduction initiatives, through which it managed to divert 95% of waste from landfills at its London North facility.

Colt has also made an effort to weave sustainability through its supply chain, with 91% of its suppliers now having adopted science-based climate targets.

Then, there's the architecture and design of its new facilities. While its plans for expansion are extensive, Colt is building for the future.

Innovative designs for new facilities ensure the integration of renewable electricity supplies and efficient cooling systems, with waste heat recovery implemented wherever feasible within local infrastructures.

The target? A comprehensive 90% reduction in absolute Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions from 2019 levels by 2045.

Colt DCS’s strategy heavily relies on its procurement of 100% renewable electricity.

A period of green growth

In 2024, Colt started working hand-in-hand with a firm called RMZ Infrastructure, with plans to kickstart growth in high-demand markets across APAC, with a particular focus on India.

Colt's report looks into the sustainability-adjacent statistics behind its operations and expansions. Despite spreading itself wider and hiring far more staff, Colt's employee satisfaction shot up from 83% in 2023 to 87% in 2024. 

In terms of growth, Colt DCS's strategic moves reflect its understanding of market trends.

“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.”

“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,” Niclas adds.

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