Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS), a global provider of hyperscale and large enterprise data center solutions, reached 90% renewable energy procurement across its global estate.
As published in its third sustainability report highlighting the company’s performance over 2024, the company’s total renewable energy procurement represents an 8% increase from the previous year.
The data center provider also reduced its absolute GHG emissions (Scopes 1, 2, and 3, market-based) by 32% compared to the 2019 base year, while continuing to expand its global footprint by adding new operational sites in Osaka Keihanna, Japan, and Mumbai, India.
The company currently operates 13 data centers across Europe and APAC, with an additional 19 facilities in development. In 2024, the company marked the launch of a major joint venture for Colt DCS with RMZ Infrastructure in India, accelerating the data center provider’s growth and capacity in high-demand markets.
Scope 2 (market-based) emissions were reduced to zero through 100% renewable electricity procurement. Scope 3 emissions, which represent 98% of the company’s total footprint in 2024, fell by 26% compared to the base year.
In addition, Colt DCS under Colt Group maintained a Platinum score in its EcoVadis 2024 submission, marking the third consecutive year the data center provider has ranked in the top 1% of organizations assessed for their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.
The company also announced that 91% of its suppliers by emissions have science-based climate targets in place and it is seeking to design all new facilities with renewable electricity supply, high energy efficient cooling systems and waste heat recovery.
The data center provider’s long-term climate goal is to achieve a 90% absolute reduction in Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions from 2019 levels by 2045 by maintaining 100% renewable electricity, deploying scalable and sustainable data centers and minimizing embodied carbon in new developments.
“For Colt DCS, 2024 was a year of significant growth. When we started our hyperscale journey nine years ago, the cloud market was $111b. Today, it is over $760b and is projected to grow even further due to the rising demand in streaming, cloud and artificial intelligence tools and services,” said Niclas Sanfridsson, CEO of Colt DCS, in a statement. “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”.