Read our 11th annual Environmental Report
Google Blog 2026-06-30 16:05:00
Context: Google has released its 11th annual Environmental Report, detailing the company's efforts to manage its environmental footprint, scale clean energy, and develop AI-powered solutions to reduce emissions. The report highlights Google's progress in 2025, including significant investments in clean energy and reductions in operational emissions. The company aims to balance growth, innovation, and environmental ambition.
Key Facts
- In 2025, Google signed agreements for over 12 GW of net-new clean energy, roughly enough to power a country the size of Greece for a year, once operational.
- Google successfully reduced its operational emissions by 2% despite a 37% annual increase in electricity demand, and matched 100% of its electricity consumption with renewable energy purchases for the ninth consecutive year.
- From 2010 to 2025, Google signed more than 240 agreements to purchase nearly 35 GW of net-new clean energy, expanding the global power supply with enough new capacity to power over 28 million U.S. homes.
- Google's data center infrastructure uses 83% less overhead energy than the industry average, and the company's advances in machine hardware efficiencies, software and compute efficiencies, and clean energy procurement collectively avoided over 58 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) in 2025 alone.
- In 2025, Google's water stewardship projects replenished approximately 7.7 billion gallons of water, roughly 78% of its 2025 freshwater consumption, marking progress toward its ambition to replenish more water than it consumes by 2030.