To ensure that our data centers do not raise electricity bills for people in our communities, we work with local utilities, regulators, policymakers, and grid operators to ensure that the energy prices we pay for our data centers are sufficient to cover both the energy and infrastructure improvements that may be required.
We have the most energy-efficient data centers, currently leading the industry with a 2025 global PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1.14. While this rating is better than both the industry average (1.25) and on-premises enterprise data centers (1.63), we plan to make continued progress in future years.
We invest significantly in carbon-free energy to help our business and society transition toward a more sustainable future for our planet. Since 2019, we’re the largest corporate purchaser of carbon-free energy and have built by far the largest carbon-free energy portfolio of any company in the world.
We host open houses in communities where we operate to share information about what we’re doing and encourage open dialogue. We share information about our plans as early as possible, listen to concerns, and ensure communities have the facts and the ability to engage with us as projects progress.
We tailor our contributions to nonprofits and community organizations to address the needs that communities identify as most important to them, such as access to community college degrees, skills and job training, and energy and water preservation and affordability.
We are committed to being water positive across our data centers by 2030, returning more water to communities than we use. As of 2025, Amazon was 75% of the way toward this goal, and our data centers were seven times more water-efficient than the industry average.
We work with local officials to ensure our contributions to the local tax base are passed along to residents in the form of lower taxes and to improve schools, hospitals, fire and police departments, parks, roads, and other community services.
We invest in energy grid and water system infrastructure upgrades that support local communities. We use non-potable, reclaimed, or brackish water in our facility design wherever possible.
We proactively share innovations in data center design, new material deployment, and cooling technology through our Sustainability Exchange to enable industry participants to benefit.
We will publish our energy use, energy efficiency, water use, water efficiency, and the percent of energy from carbon free resources for the public to review on an annual basis.
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