Nxtra Data Limited (Nxtra by Airtel) has released the second edition of its sustainability report for the financial year 2023-24 (FY24).
The report emphasises Nxtra’s ongoing and growing commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. It outlines Nxtra’s efforts to develop future-ready, digitised infrastructure that is sustainably designed and engineered to handle high-density workloads, providing customers with seamless scalability, and facilitating their growth.
The key achievements as highlighted by the report are:
- Transitioned to 220,541 MWh renewable energy usage in operations, 41 per cent higher than FY23.
- Reduced Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 4 per cent compared to base year FY21 despite an increase of 25 per cent in power consumption.
- Ensured consistent increase in women employees with 30 per cent more representation in the workplace.
- With the aim of doubling women’s representation by FY26 from FY23, introduced the NxtWave initiative – a unique talent development programme for women in engineering.
- Ensured 4.3 million safe-man hours in construction.
- Facilitated promotion of responsible sourcing with 99 per cent local procurement.
Commenting on the news, Ashish Arora, chief executive officer, Nxtra, said, “The future of data centres lies in our ability to harmonise intelligent infrastructure with sustainability. Integrating innovative ESG initiatives into our business model and operations has been integral to our data centre build and operations from day one. As our sustainability report highlights, we have made consistent progress across all three sustainability parameters during the year and will continue to keep it as our core focus area.”
