Sustainable & Efficient Operations

At Google, we’re implementing sustainable business practices to achieve more sustainable operations. Explore our goals and track our progress.

Energy

Running the global infrastructure behind our products and services takes considerable energy. From the beginning, we’ve been pushing the boundaries of how we manage our energy use—and how we can accelerate the shift to cleaner sources.

Achievements include:

Reduced data center energy emissions by 12% in 2024
Matched 100% of global electricity use with renewable energy since 2017
Signed world's first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy

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Circular economy

Accelerating the circular economy through innovation and efficiency is critical. We’re maximizing the reuse of finite resources across our operations, products, and supply chains—and enabling others to do the same.

Diverted 84% of our operational waste from disposal
Harvested 8.8 million components for reuse or resale
Reduced food waste per Googler by 39%

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Consumer hardware

We’re building consumer devices with recycled materials, ditching plastic in our packaging, and working to make it easier for people to repair, reuse, and recycle our devices.

At least 20% recycled content in new products
100% plastic-free packaging for new products
Seven years of software support for Pixel phones

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More Sustainability Operations

Water stewardship: Our efficient and responsible use of resources.

Our water stewardship projects replenished approximately 64% of our freshwater consumption, or 4.5 billion gallons.

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Nature & biodiversity: Bring nature back to where people already are.

Created or rehabilitated approximately 74 acres of habitat and planted roughly 5,200 native trees.

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