# 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-<region>/<slug> 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.