Meta leaves RE100 clean energy pact after a decade as its gas buildout for AI outpaces renewables

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Meta quit RE100 after a decade, unable to meet renewable energy criteria as it funds 10 gas plants for AI data centres

Meta has withdrawn from RE100, the global corporate clean energy initiative it joined a decade ago as Facebook, after the Climate Group confirmed the company can no longer meet the programme’s technical criteria. The departure follows Meta’s commitment to building 10 natural gas plants to power its Hyperion AI data centre campus in Louisiana, a project now valued at more than $200 billion. Meta is the highest-profile company to leave the initiative since its founding in 2014.

RE100requires members to source 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources. Meta claimed to have met that threshold every year since 2021, using environmental attribute certificates to match its consumption with renewable generation on an annual basis. But the scale of its gas commitments, more than seven...

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