With the rising demand for digital infrastructure, sustainability has change into a vital precedence for organisations worldwide. Bruno Lopez, President and Group Chief Government Officer, ST Telemedia International Knowledge Centres, says, “Because the digital economic system accelerates, our accountability as infrastructure suppliers extends past merely supporting development; we should lead with objective and innovation. In 2024, STT GDC made exceptional progress on our sustainability journey, from securing S$500 million in sustainability-linked financing to implementing initiatives similar to AI-driven cooling optimisation and pioneering using hydrotreated vegetable oil in Singapore. These achievements replicate our unwavering dedication to reaching carbon neutrality by 2030 whereas delivering the resilient, environment friendly infrastructure that powers our digital world. Sustainability is not only a company goal for us—it’s the basis upon which we’re constructing the way forward for digital infrastructure.”
2024 ESG Report Highlights
STT GDC’s ESG technique is rooted within the perception that sustainable practices are elementary to the way forward for the information centre business. In STT GDC’s annual ESG report, we measure the Group’s progress towards reaching web carbon-neutral information centre operations by 2030. Notable achievements in our sustainability journey in 2024 embody:
Achieved 78.5% renewable vitality utilization, forward of our targets.
Achieved a 22.9% year-on-year discount in carbon emissions throughout the group in 2024, progressing in direction of the purpose of carbon impartial information centre operations by 2030.
Issued S$500 million of Sustainability- Linked Perpetual (SLP) securities: Our maiden perpetual securities issuance is the first-ever Singapore greenback denominated SLP, the primary public benchmark SLP in Asia and the primary public SLP by a knowledge centre firm globally, underscoring our dedication to sustainable finance.
Enhanced Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework: We’ve got expanded and enhanced our Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework, setting much more formidable targets that reinforce our dedication to reaching greater ESG efficiency requirements. These embody growing using renewable vitality to 85% by 2028 and reaching a 70% discount in carbon depth from a 2021 baseline by 2028.
First information centre operator in Singapore to deploy HVO for backup turbines: We introduced deployment of HVO as a sustainable gasoline for our backup turbines throughout our amenities in Singapore. This pioneering transfer underscores our dedication to decreasing carbon emissions and enhancing the sustainability of our operations, setting a brand new benchmark for greener vitality options throughout the business.
First information centre operator in Asia to pilot AI-based autonomous management system for optimising information centre cooling in STT GDC’s amenities in Singapore, setting a novel precedent by testing the expertise in a hybrid cooling surroundings that’s technically more difficult than conventional air-cooled information centres.
Environmental Influence:
Achieved an 66.2% discount in carbon depth, from the 2021 baseline.
Improved energy utilization effectiveness (PUE) by 11.2% from the 2020 baseline.
Realised a 34.5% enchancment in water utilization effectiveness (WUE) from 2020 baseline.
Social Influence:
Achieved zero work-related severe accidents or fatalities since 2020, with a Whole Recordable Incident Price (TRIR) of 0.1 earned throughout greater than 25 million hours labored in our building and operations program.
In 2024, the next STT GDC workplaces obtained the Nice Place to Work certification: India, for the fifth consecutive yr; Singapore, for the second consecutive yr; and Indonesia, for the primary time.
Invested a median of 23.5 coaching hours per worker within the development and improvement of our workforce, making certain that by equipping our workers with the most recent expertise and data, they continue to be on the forefront of business developments and rising technological traits.
In 2024, our crew at STT GDC Indonesia partnered with an area conservation enabler to plant 1,000 mangrove timber at Dusun Tangkolak, Karawang, West Java. Mangrove timber are important for shielding coastal communities, boosting biodiversity and enjoying an important position in combating local weather change.
Accountable Enterprise Practices:
STT GDC is dedicated to the best requirements of enterprise ethics. Company integrity and accountable enterprise practices govern the Group’s values and tradition, together with:
A zero-tolerance coverage on bribery, kickbacks, and corruption.
A requirement that each one individuals performing on behalf of STT GDC should conduct all enterprise actions in compliance with its insurance policies and relevant anti-corruption legal guidelines.
100% of workers have obtained anti-corruption coaching, with zero incidents of corruption.
STT GDC’s ESG Report relies on a full yr’s information from 1 January to 31 December 2024, focusing totally on STT GDC’s working entities (information centres and workplaces) throughout the yr.
