{
  "dataset": "operator-energy",
  "title": "Operators' energy, renewable matching and water",
  "index": "Environmental Disclosure Index",
  "url": "https://aisafetytracker.org/environment/",
  "citation": "AI Safety Tracker, \"Environmental Disclosure Index\". https://aisafetytracker.org/environment/. Retrieved 23 October 2026.",
  "licences": [
    {
      "source": "environmental-disclosure-index",
      "name": "Environmental Disclosure Index",
      "publisher": "This site",
      "licence": "MIT",
      "licence_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT",
      "attribution": "AI Safety Tracker, \"Environmental Disclosure Index\". Licensed MIT."
    }
  ],
  "generated": "2026-10-24T00:24:08+00:00",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
  "unit": null,
  "notes": "Our own reading of primary publications, reviewed 2026-10-23. Company-wide figures from each operator's own sustainability report, not figures for any model.",
  "count": 4,
  "records": [
    {
      "operator": "Google",
      "period": "2025",
      "dc_twh": 42.4158,
      "dc_twh_prior": 30.6371,
      "renewable_match_pct": 100,
      "hourly_cfe_pct": 65,
      "scope2_location_t": 15148700,
      "scope2_market_t": 2815000,
      "note": "Data-centre electricity rose 38% on 2024. The hourly carbon-free share was 13% across Google's Asia Pacific grid regions and 68% in the United States.",
      "url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-mobius-cdn/sustainability/uploads/7f477eb723fe0c23d03f94b90a08882b9f28187d.pdf",
      "water_note": "Consumed 41 billion litres of water across its data centres and offices in 2025, up 34% on 2024. States that cooling with water needs less energy than cooling with air.",
      "water_url": "https://sustainability.google/files/google-2026-environmental-report.pdf",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-23",
      "source_id": "environmental-disclosure-index"
    },
    {
      "operator": "Microsoft",
      "period": "FY2025",
      "dc_twh": null,
      "dc_twh_prior": null,
      "renewable_match_pct": 100,
      "hourly_cfe_pct": null,
      "scope2_location_t": null,
      "scope2_market_t": null,
      "note": "Matched 100% of annual electricity with renewable energy in fiscal 2025. No hourly or per-region figure is published.",
      "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/sustainability/report/",
      "water_note": "Every new datacentre design since August 2024 cools chips in a closed loop that evaporates no water once filled, at a stated nominal increase in electricity use. The first such sites are expected online in late 2027. The existing fleet mixes air and water cooling.",
      "water_url": "https://microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/blog/2024/12/09/sustainable-by-design-next-generation-datacenters-consume-zero-water-for-cooling",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-23",
      "source_id": "environmental-disclosure-index"
    },
    {
      "operator": "Amazon",
      "period": "2025",
      "dc_twh": null,
      "dc_twh_prior": null,
      "renewable_match_pct": 100,
      "hourly_cfe_pct": null,
      "scope2_location_t": null,
      "scope2_market_t": null,
      "note": "Matched 100% of electricity with renewable energy for a third year. Runs AWS, where Anthropic trains and serves on Trainium chips.",
      "url": "https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-sustainability-report-2025",
      "water_note": null,
      "water_url": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-23",
      "source_id": "environmental-disclosure-index"
    },
    {
      "operator": "Meta",
      "period": "since 2020",
      "dc_twh": null,
      "dc_twh_prior": null,
      "renewable_match_pct": 100,
      "hourly_cfe_pct": null,
      "scope2_location_t": null,
      "scope2_market_t": null,
      "note": "Stated in its Llama model cards: net zero operations and 100% renewable matching since 2020.",
      "url": "https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/llama3_1/MODEL_CARD.md",
      "water_note": null,
      "water_url": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-23",
      "source_id": "environmental-disclosure-index"
    }
  ]
}
