Meta announced on November 12, 2026, a set of multi-year agreements for lower-carbon materials and freight used to build its data centers, led by certificates tied to at least 180,000 tons of Sublime Systems cement and 25 electric trucks on Interstate 10.
Key points
- Meta will buy environmental attribute certificates (EACs) tied to at least 180,000 tons of Sublime cement, which Sublime says an accredited third party will verify.
- A separate deal with Nevoya backs 25 battery-electric Class 8 trucks between San Bernardino, California, and Phoenix, Arizona, expected to start in 2027.
- The trucks are expected to cover about 4 million freight miles a year, according to Electrek.
- Meta also announced a new multi-year agreement with Swedish steelmaker Stegra for near-zero-emission steel; no volume was disclosed.
What Meta is buying
The agreements are built around EACs: the supplier makes a verified lower-carbon product, Meta pays for its environmental benefit, and the physical material is sold in the local market, Meta says. Financial terms were not disclosed.
According to Sublime’s release, Meta also gets priority access to use Sublime Cement in its data center construction. Sublime, spun out of MIT in 2020, describes its electrochemical cement process as fully electrified, with no fossil-fueled kiln. The company says its first commercial plant is still in development and that 2026 engineering studies at several U.S. plants supported building next to existing, underused cement plants. It names CRH, Amrize and Holcim as investors and says it now has binding offtake agreements with Meta and Microsoft.
| Partner | What the deal covers | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sublime Systems | EACs for at least 180,000 tons of cement | First commercial plant in development |
| Nevoya | 25 electric trucks on I-10 (California–Arizona) | Operations expected in 2027 |
| Stegra | Near-zero-emission primary steel | New multi-year agreement, volume not disclosed |
| MacroCycle | Recycled PET from hard-to-recycle plastic | First commercial plant planned in the Southeast, 5,000 tons a year |
How the electric truck deal works
Meta is not shipping its own goods on the I-10 trucks; it pays for certificates that represent the emissions benefit of Nevoya’s electric freight, Electrek reports. It is Meta’s second deal with Nevoya, after a 63-truck deployment on the Houston–Dallas route backed by a buyers’ group, the Center for Green Market Activation. Meta says the trucking work also adds open-access charging stations that other commercial fleets can use, and it builds on an earlier partnership with NFI in Virginia.
Devon Lake, Meta’s head of net zero strategy, said in the Sublime release: “Cement is one of the hardest parts of our infrastructure footprint to address.”
Why it matters
Cement and concrete account for roughly 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to RMI, which developed a book-and-claim framework for the sector with the Center for Green Market Activation. Sublime says the Meta deal is designed to be consistent with that framework.
The volumes are still small next to the U.S. market. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the country used about 110 million metric tons of cement in 2025 and produced about 84 million, so 180,000 tons equals less than 0.2% of one year’s consumption. For comparison, Microsoft agreed in May 2025 to buy up to 622,500 metric tons of Sublime cement over six to nine years, ESG Today reported.
Sublime has also lost federal backing: the Department of Energy terminated an expected $87 million award for a Sublime factory in Massachusetts on May 30, 2025, Trellis reported. The new deal follows Meta’s Fortera cement agreement from late October. For more on industrial emission-cutting methods, see our environmental technology examples.
Other perspectives
- In a 2024 analysis of Microsoft’s earlier certificate deal with Sublime, Heatmap noted that, as with carbon offsets, such systems can still be gamed and that rules on tracking and double counting were unsettled.
- Ben Skinner, a manager at RMI, told Heatmap that buyers of the physical cement should not also claim it as clean on their own emissions accounts, while which figure they should use remained an open question; he said a high-integrity system was possible.
What’s next
- Nevoya’s 25 trucks on I-10 are expected to begin operating in 2027.
- Sublime says its first commercial plant is in development; its release names no site or start date.
Sources
- Meta’s New Agreements Bring Clean Manufacturing to Data Center Supply Chains — Meta, November 12, 2026
- Sublime Systems and Meta Sign Agreement to Scale U.S. Manufacturing of Next Generation Low-Carbon Cement — Sublime Systems via Business Wire, November 12, 2026
- Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: Cement — U.S. Geological Survey, February 2026
- Book and claim for cement and concrete — RMI, 2026
- Meta to deploy 25 electric semi trucks across I-10 corridor, but has nothing to ship — Electrek, November 13, 2026
- Microsoft Buys Over 600,000 Tons of Green Cement to Help Build Sustainable Materials Market — ESG Today, May 28, 2025
- Cement startups Sublime and Brimstone lose federal funding — Trellis, June 3, 2025
- Why Climate’s Hardest Problem Might Need a Carbon Market — Heatmap, October 17, 2024
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