Meta signs multi-year cement and steel certificate deals tied to data centre construction

Meta said on 12 November 2026 that it has signed multi-year purchase agreements with suppliers of cement, steel, recycled plastic and electric trucking in the United States and Sweden, covering materials and freight used to build and supply its data centres.

Meta says the Sublime Systems agreement, which spans several years, backs no less than 180,000 tons of the company's lower-carbon cement output, makes it possible for Sublime to construct its first plant at commercial scale, and gives Meta priority access to Sublime Cement for building its data centres. Sublime says Meta is buying environmental attribute certificates tied to that production, checked by an outside accredited verifier, and that cement for delivery will come from its first commercial factories; that first plant is still being developed. Sublime says a guaranteed commitment over several years, like this one, gives a first-of-a-kind cement plant the forward demand it needs to reach financial close.

Meta says it has also agreed with Fortera, a lower-carbon cement maker, to back a new Fortera plant at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. According to Meta, Sublime and Fortera both expect their initial plants to add lower-carbon cement capacity in the United States.

For steel, Meta says a new multi-year deal with Stegra, a Swedish company, backs primary steel with near-zero emissions, made by a process that uses no coal to reduce iron. Stegra says the deal is for environmental attribute certificates tied to the plant it is building in Boden, northern Sweden, with independent, accredited verification. Stegra says the steel itself is sold without those environmental attributes and its buyer makes no environmental claim on it, a book-and-claim method it applies to its non-prime steel. Meta notes that the structural steel in its data centres comes through global supply chains.

Meta says it is widening its work with Nevoya, an electric trucking carrier, to an Interstate 10 route through California and Arizona, with permanent charging stations that other commercial fleets can also use. Its earlier zero-emission freight work included a Nevoya partnership in Texas and a separate partnership in Virginia.

Meta says its multi-year deal with MacroCycle Technologies is helping finance that company's first commercial plant, planned for the US Southeast. MacroCycle, which announced the agreement on 22 September 2026, says Meta is buying certificates linked to the plant's recycled PET, and that the plant is expected to make 5,000 tonnes of it a year from plastic waste too mixed or contaminated for mechanical recycling.

Meta says each agreement is set up to produce environmental attribute certificates: the supplier makes a verified lower-carbon material or service, Meta pays for its environmental benefit, and the product itself is sold locally. Where it can, Meta says, it also obtains priority access to use the materials in its future data centres once the new factories are running. Meta estimates the work will support hundreds of jobs in construction and in long-term manufacturing at the new and enlarged US plants.