Innovating across our operations and supply chain
Our work in sustainability across our data centers and hardware supply chain has driven innovation for over two decades. The scale of our progress spanning energy solutions, water stewardship, waste reduction, nature and biodiversity, and consumer hardware is a testament to the power of technology to accelerate global solutions.
Energy
Mature carbon-free energy sources, such as solar, wind, and hydropower, remain our most critical operational lever for addressing the environmental impact of the AI era. We’re also advancing the next generation of carbon-free energy sources like advanced nuclear and enhanced geothermal while making long-term bets on breakthrough technologies like fusion.
Leading corporate clean energy procurement globally
From 2010 to 2025, we signed more than 240 agreements to purchase nearly 35 GW of net-new clean energy, with more than 12 GW contracted in 2025 alone1—the largest annual total in our history and more than our total procurement from the previous two years combined.
Reduced median Gemini text prompt energy and carbon footprint
Over a 12 month period, the energy and total carbon footprint of the median Gemini Apps text prompt dropped by factors of 33 and 44, respectively.2 The per-prompt energy impact is equivalent to watching TV for less than nine seconds.3
Water stewardship
As data centers grow to power critical everyday services like Search, Maps, healthcare and 911 systems, how they are built is just as important as the technology they provide. To minimize their footprint, we take a climate-conscious approach to cooling by carefully balancing energy and water usage. Furthermore, we actively aim to replenish more freshwater than we consume to support the ecological health and vitality of local water systems where we operate.
Replenishing billions of gallons of water
In 2025, our water stewardship projects replenished approximately 7.7 billion gallons of water—roughly 78% of our 2025 total freshwater consumption.4
Prioritizing water security where it matters most
In 2025, 87% of our freshwater withdrawal came from sources with low or medium risk of water depletion or scarcity.4
Waste reduction
We're working toward becoming a more circular Google by maximizing the reuse of finite resources across our operations, products, and supply chains—and enabling others to do the same. To help eliminate waste, we partner with our data center operations teams to analyze exactly what is heading to landfills and to keep high-value materials in use.
Diverting operational waste from our data centers
We diverted 88% of our operational waste from disposal across our global Google-owned and -operated data centers in 2025.4
Giving data center hardware components a second life
In 2025, we harvested more than 7.5 million components from our decommissioned hardware for internal reuse through our build, upgrade, and spares programs, reducing the need for new manufacturing.
Nature & biodiversity
We strive to restore and enhance nature and biodiversity on our campuses, creating resilient urban habitats where nature is otherwise scarce.
Creating thriving natural habitat
As of the end of 2025, we created or restored over 80 acres of habitat on our global campuses, including over 75 acres in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Supporting bird populations on our Bay View campus
We documented more than 100 bird species using our Bay View campus to forage, roost, and raise their young.
Consumer hardware
Since launching our first consumer hardware devices a decade ago, we’ve set out to integrate sustainability considerations into every aspect of our devices—from how we source our materials, engineer and package our products, operate our supply chain, and design our retail stores. By engineering products to last, designing intentionally with responsible materials, and advancing collective progress through sharing, we’re moving toward a more circular future.
Designing with recycled aluminum
The enclosure of all Pixel phones from Pixel 6 through Pixel 10 have been made with 100% recycled aluminum,5 and the Pixel 10 series is made with the most recycled content of any Pixel phone generation yet.6
Integrating recycled materials into the Pixel 10 Pro
Pixel 10 Pro is made with at least 30% recycled materials, including recycled plastic, aluminum, glass, and rare earth elements.7
Our reports
Explore the reports and case studies designed to help your organization adopt approaches that work for us.
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The total GW figure represents clean energy procured through power purchase agreements, energy storage agreements, and agreements under which Google receives environmental attribute certificates. Actual generation may vary from contracted amounts based on project modifications, terminations, and performance.
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A point-in-time analysis quantified the energy consumed per median Gemini App text-generation prompt, comparing data from May 2024 to data from May 2025. Energy per median prompt is subject to change as new models are added, AI model architecture evolves, and AI chatbot user behavior develops. These estimates have not been independently verified.
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Based on the average operational electricity consumption for modern TVs from top manufacturers. Equivalency assumes a TV uses 100 Wh of energy per hour, per “How Many Watts Does a TV Use?” Energysage, November 2024, last accessed July 2025.
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For details about this calculation, refer to the Methodology section in the Detailed disclosures section of our 2026 Environmental Report.
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Recycled aluminum in the enclosures is at least 9% of applicable product based on weight. The 100% recycled aluminum content claim excludes Pixel 5a.
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Recycled materials are at least 28% of product based on weight.
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Based on product weight. In accordance with European Union’s Ecodesign of Smartphones 2023/1670 requirements, the “Indicative Weight Range” of the following critical raw materials are: Cobalt in the battery: above 10 g; Tantalum in capacitors: less than 0.01 g; Neodymium in loudspeakers, vibration motors, and other magnets: above 0.2 g; Gold in all components: less than 0.02 g; Google contracted a testing, inspection and certification company to evaluate our products independently, using EN45555:2019 as a standard methodology: the Recyclability Rate for the Pixel 10 Pro is 69.88% and the recoverability rate is 80.08%.