diff --git a/conda/environments/all_cuda-118_arch-x86_64.yaml b/conda/environments/all_cuda-118_arch-x86_64.yaml
index b885e77cf..3dde94a78 100644
--- a/conda/environments/all_cuda-118_arch-x86_64.yaml
+++ b/conda/environments/all_cuda-118_arch-x86_64.yaml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ dependencies:
 - python>=3.10,<3.13
 - rapids-build-backend>=0.3.0,<0.4.0.dev0
 - scikit-build-core >=0.10.0
+- spdlog>=1.14.1,<1.15
 - sphinx
 - sphinx-copybutton
 - sphinx-markdown-tables
diff --git a/conda/environments/all_cuda-125_arch-x86_64.yaml b/conda/environments/all_cuda-125_arch-x86_64.yaml
index 0d0659215..5d702c681 100644
--- a/conda/environments/all_cuda-125_arch-x86_64.yaml
+++ b/conda/environments/all_cuda-125_arch-x86_64.yaml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ dependencies:
 - python>=3.10,<3.13
 - rapids-build-backend>=0.3.0,<0.4.0.dev0
 - scikit-build-core >=0.10.0
+- spdlog>=1.14.1,<1.15
 - sphinx
 - sphinx-copybutton
 - sphinx-markdown-tables
diff --git a/conda/recipes/librmm/meta.yaml b/conda/recipes/librmm/meta.yaml
index 31aaf0e63..ab2cfcc88 100644
--- a/conda/recipes/librmm/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/recipes/librmm/meta.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2018-2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+# Copyright (c) 2018-2025, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
 
 {% set version = environ['RAPIDS_PACKAGE_VERSION'].lstrip('v') %}
 {% set cuda_version = '.'.join(environ['RAPIDS_CUDA_VERSION'].split('.')[:2]) %}
@@ -26,13 +26,8 @@ requirements:
     - {{ stdlib("c") }}
   host:
     - cuda-version ={{ cuda_version }}
-    # We need fmt here for now because the conda spdlog package is hard-coded
-    # to use fmt as a compiled library, not header-only, so we must ensure that
-    # the library is present for now so that if a downstream library tries to
-    # build against rmm and some other package in its build environment uses
-    # fmt (or spdlog) that the default rmm build is consistent with such
-    # environments.
     - fmt {{ fmt_version }}
+    - spdlog {{ spdlog_version }}
 
 build:
   script_env:
@@ -77,8 +72,8 @@ outputs:
         {% if cuda_major == "11" %}
         - cudatoolkit
         {% endif %}
-        # See comment about fmt in the build section above.
         - fmt {{ fmt_version }}
+        - spdlog {{ spdlog_version }}
     test:
       commands:
         - test -d "${PREFIX}/include/rmm"
diff --git a/dependencies.yaml b/dependencies.yaml
index 7f94f3f6e..7c4e64a46 100644
--- a/dependencies.yaml
+++ b/dependencies.yaml
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ dependencies:
           - c-compiler
           - cxx-compiler
           - fmt>=11.0.2,<12
+          - spdlog>=1.14.1,<1.15
     specific:
       - output_types: conda
         matrices: