Our annual report details how we’re working to responsibly manage our environmental footprint, scale abundant and affordable clean energy and develop AI-powered solutions to reduce emissions.
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Today, we’re releasing our 11th Environmental Report , which provides a holistic view of our 2025 sustainability performance. This year’s most impressive highlights: In 2025 alone, we signed agreements for over 12 GW of net-new clean energy 1 — roughly enough to power a country the size of Greece for a year, once operational. 2 At the same time, we successfully reduced our operational emissions by 2% despite the significant ongoing growth in our electricity demand. 3
Our report navigates the tension between hyper-growth and environmental stewardship, and proves our enduring commitment to a more sustainable future. At Google, we’re deeply committed to responsibly managing the environmental footprint of our operations and unlocking the power of AI for the planet. While the path to achieving our climate ambitions will not be linear — given our AI infrastructure buildout is currently accelerating faster than the grid is decarbonizing — we remain focused on scaling abundant and affordable clean power globally and progressing technological innovations that drive down emissions across our operations and the broader industry.
Delivering record clean energy while investing in future energy breakthroughs
The AI revolution has made the last five years especially transformative, and we’re proud of the progress we’ve achieved toward balancing growth, innovation and environmental ambition.
Google is one of the largest corporate purchasers of clean energy in the world. From 2010 to 2025, we signed more than 240 agreements to purchase nearly 35 GW of net-new clean energy. 4 Through these cumulative agreements, we’re expanding the global power supply with enough new capacity to power over 28 million U.S. homes, 5 or roughly every household in New York, Texas and Pennsylvania combined. 6 When paired with our industry-leading data center infrastructure — which uses 83% less overhead energy than the industry average 7 — we’re working to ensure every megawatt is used as efficiently as possible.
Notably, despite navigating our largest load growth in history — a 37% annual increase in electricity demand — we successfully reduced our operational emissions by 2% year-over-year while matching 100% of our electricity consumption with renewable energy purchases for the ninth consecutive year. 8 These milestones prove it's possible to decouple our rapid operational growth from our carbon footprint.