Meta signs long-term deals to clean up its data center supply chain
Meta has announced long-term agreements to reduce carbon emissions in cement production and freight trucking for its data center construction.
Meta's AI ambitions run on chips, power, and a surprising amount of concrete. Now the company is paying to make some of that concrete, and the trucks that haul it, a little less dirty. The tech giant announced long-term agreements to support clean manufacturing in the supply chains behind its data centers, targeting two carbon-heavy parts of construction: cement production and freight trucking.
Cement deal details
The headline deal is a multi-year agreement with Fortera, a low-carbon cement producer. Meta will acquire environmental attribute certificates (EACs) covering approximately 200,000 tons of Fortera's ReAct low-carbon cement. The cement will come from Fortera's upcoming commercial plant in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, with the agreement announced between October 29 and 30, 2026.
Meta is not buying sacks of cement but rather the certificates representing the environmental benefit of producing that cement. The arrangement uses a book-and-claim model, similar to community solar projects, where the climate credit is separated from the physical product. This allows Meta to help finance cleaner cement production without the cement needing to be delivered to a Meta construction site.
The Fortera facility is projected to reach a capacity of 300,000 tons per year by 2028, with Meta's commitment covering a significant portion of that future output. Fortera's process incorporates captured CO₂ into its cement, with the product expected to emit up to 70% less CO₂ than conventional Portland cement.
Multi-year commitments are important for financing innovative projects like the Fortera plant. A new cement facility is a large capital project, and a credible long-term buyer of its environmental attributes makes the financing story considerably easier to tell.
Trucking emissions focus
On November 12, 2026, Meta expanded its relationship with Nevoya through a parallel multi-year EAC agreement focused on zero-emission electric trucking. The Nevoya deal supports electric freight along the I-10 corridor, hauling materials tied to Meta's data center projects. It backs 25 Class 8 battery-electric trucks, which are expected to cover approximately 4 million freight miles each year.
Why cement and trucks matter
These deals target Scope 3 emissions, which are the emissions a company is indirectly responsible for through its suppliers and value chain. For a company building data centers at speed, a significant portion of Scope 3 comes from embodied emissions—those baked into materials before a single server is switched on.
The agreements support Meta's corporate climate targets, including having two-thirds of its suppliers adopt science-based emissions targets by 2026 and keeping its Scope 3 emissions at or below 2021 levels by 2031. For Fortera and Nevoya, the deals provide a demand signal from one of the largest corporate buyers in tech, helping to prove to lenders that there will be market demand for their clean technology output.
The book-and-claim structure is a pragmatic tool that allows buyers to fund decarbonization wherever it is cheapest or most available. However, its credibility depends on careful tracking to ensure each ton of cleaner cement is counted once and claimed by only one buyer. There is also a timing consideration, as the Fortera plant is still upcoming with full capacity projected by 2028, making Meta's commitment a pledge against future production rather than already avoided emissions.
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