Today, we’re sharing a new set of long-term purchase commitments spanning cement, steel, trucking, and recycled plastics. Through these commitments, we’re helping bring clean manufacturing to a commercial scale in the industries that build and supply our data centers. 

Building the physical infrastructure that supports Meta technologies takes significant quantities of foundation materials: cement, steel, plastics, and the freight networks that move them. 

Reducing the emissions associated with building infrastructure requires not only sourcing differently but bringing lower carbon materials and services into existence at commercial scale. Our multi-year commitments give suppliers the revenue certainty they need to build these solutions, and stepping in early helps demonstrate these technologies so the broader market can adopt them.

These agreements build on a track record of testing, validating, and scaling lower carbon infrastructure solutions across our data center footprint. That includes piloting mass timber architecture to replace traditional carbon-intensive materials, open-sourcing AI models to design faster-curing, lower carbon concrete formulations, and joining industry peers as a founding partner of the Data Center Innovation Initiative.

We’ve signed a multi-year agreement with Sublime Systems to support at least 180,000 tons of lower carbon cement production. Our support enables Sublime to build its first commercial-scale facility and gives us priority access to use Sublime Cement® in our data center construction pipeline. 

We’ve also signed an agreement with lower carbon cement producer Fortera to support a new plant in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Both companies expect their early plants to add domestic capacity for lower carbon cement and create new American jobs.

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