# Colt Data Centre Services (coltdcs)

• Domain: www.coltdatacentres.net · Kind: operator · Priority: 1 · Enabled: yes
• License / attribution: Publicly accessible operator pages; factual data only; © Colt Data Centre Services — attribution “Colt DCS”
• Coverage: GB, DE, FR, NL, JP, IN

# What it collects

Facility records (kind: facility) via parser(s) coltdcs_facility_v1 in apps/worker/src/connectors/operators2/emea.ts.

Fields published by the pages and captured: name, city, countryIso2, itCapacityMw (operational) or plannedPowerMw (developments), buildingSqm / siteAreaHa (from counter labels), tier, status, certifications.

Every field carries an extraction method in methods (e.g. json-ld:PostalAddress, regex:it_mw_v1, attr:data-value+MW, lookup:city-country) for provenance. Coordinates are only taken from JSON-LD / embedded JSON / map links published by the operator — never geocoded. Status defaults to operational unless the page uses pipeline wording (under construction / coming soon / planned).

# Discovery

• Sitemaps: https://www.coltdatacentres.net/en-GB/sitemap.xml
• Include: /en-GB/our-locations/data-centre-locations-[a-z]+/[a-z0-9-]+$, /en-GB/developments/[a-z-]+/[a-z0-9-]+$, /en-GB/media-room/press-releases/
• Exclude: \?, #, /(health-and-safety|security|sustainability|construction-timeline|receipt[a-z-]*|get-a-quote|see-all)$
• Classify: /en-GB/(our-locations|developments)/[a-z-]+/[a-z0-9-]+$ → facility_pages (facility_page); /press-releases/. → newsroom (press_release)

Newsroom URLs (when configured) rely on the GenericConnector news fallback (press_release → news_event when data-center relevant).

# Schedule & fetch

• Schedule: facility_pages weekly, newsroom daily, sitemap weekly
• Fetch: L1→L2, 15 rpm, concurrency 2, robots.txt respected, max 20 premium credits/run. All pages are served at L1 (plain HTTP); maxLevel is capped at 2 so false-positive “blocked” heuristics (HubSpot / cookie-consent strings) never spend Scrapfly credits.

# Quirks

Site pages /en-GB/our-locations/data-centre-locations-/ carry animated counters as data-value attributes (MW of IT power, ㎡, Colt tier). Development sites (Frankfurt 3, London 4…) are recorded as pipeline with planned MW. JSON-LD address is the London HQ and is ignored.

# Verification (live, 2026-09-11)

try-connector --limit N: discovered 23 URLs (facility_pages=23); sampled pages → 6 entities, 6 valid, 0 rejected, 0 premium credits.