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Google $GOOGL +3.58% announced five water stewardship commitments Wednesday, including a goal to replenish more water than it consumes at its data centers by 2030. Across 97 watersheds, those 165 projects are projected to restore upward of 19 billion gallons each year by 2030, a figure Google says would exceed twice what it consumed in 2024.
In 2025, Google replenished more than 7 billion gallons of water, the company said, roughly equivalent to the annual usage of 70,000 average U.S. households. To reach its 2030 target, the company is also evaluating more than 700 projects submitted through a water replenishment request for information, with additional announcements expected in the coming months.
Beyond replenishment, Google committed to investing in local water and wastewater infrastructure. To date, the company has pledged more than $500 million to water, wastewater, and water reuse infrastructure and to utility partners in communities where it operates data centers. It also pledged to use air cooling at sites where local water resources are assessed as high-risk, and to pursue reclaimed wastewater as an alternative where possible — pointing to a Douglas County, Georgia, project that reuses treated wastewater for cooling.
