Water
We commit to becoming water positive in 2030.
Becoming water positive
Water is a vital resource for life on earth, and we strive to approach its management with the technical expertise and responsibility it necessitates. We’re part of the Water Resilience Coalition of the UN CEO Water Mandate, focusing on corporate water stewardship. Minimizing water use, being transparent with our water data, and restoring water in high water stress regions are key pillars of our water stewardship program.
Every drop matters
We organize our water stewardship efforts around three three pillars:
Minimizing water use – With data centers generating the highest water consumption, we continuously strive to design and operate sustainable data centers.
Transparency – We publish detailed information about our water withdrawals, restoration projects and progress as we work toward our goal of Water Positive in 2030.
Water restoration – Through our water restoration projects, we will restore 200% of consumption in high water stress regions and 100% of consumption in medium water stress regions.
Restoring more water than we consume
Highlights from our recent projects supporting local watersheds
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Longleaf pine forest restoration
In partnership with Texan by Nature, the Texas Longleaf Team, and several other companies, Meta helped restore 2,000 acres of longleaf pine forest in Trinity County, Texas. A healthy longleaf pine ecosystem will filter and store freshwater, sequester carbon, support diversity and benefit the community.
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Colorado River Indian Tribes drip irrigation
In Arizona, where agriculture is critical to the economy, Meta is partnering with the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT) and N-Drip Technology to save water by replacing flood irrigation with drip irrigation. This system reduces water usage, evaporation and runoff by slowly providing water to the soil.
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Verde River watershed restoration
Meta is partnering with the Salt River Project (SRP), state, federal, local, and private partners to restore forests in the Verde River watershed. This restoration project will improve wildfire resilience, decrease the vegetative water demand, avoid water quality degradation, and increase surface water flows by more than 5 million gallons per year.
Water-efficient data centers
Data centers use water to manage air flow and cool server halls. Temperature and humidity levels must be monitored to ensure the performance of IT equipment and prevent equipment damage, electrostatic issues and corrosion.
Our newest AI-optimized data centers currently under construction will feature dry-cooling technology. Dry cooling uses air as the cooling medium minimizing water usage, making it the most efficient cooling technology for these geographic locations.
All of our data centers are LEED Gold at a minimum. As a platinum member of the U.S. Green Building Council, we are proud to help shape the future of the green rating system for data centers.
Sustainability impact map
This map highlights our renewable energy procurement and deployment efforts worldwide, water stewardship efforts in the communities we operate in, and other sustainability features across our global portfolio of data centers.
2024 Sustainability Report
Learn more about our progress as we work to achieve net zero emissions across our value chain and become water positive in 2030.
