The technology sector, while providing the tools to solve climate change, simultaneously faces a formidable challenge: its own massive environmental footprint. Big tech currently accounts for an estimated 4% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, a figure that is rapidly growing due to the immense energy demands of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and exponentially expanding data centers.
The impact extends beyond carbon, encompassing carbon-intensive supply chains and excessive water use in manufacturing and cooling.
In 2025, the response from leading technology corporations is no longer voluntary; it is a strategic imperative. These companies have launched ambitious, science-aligned goals focused on deep decarbonization, renewable energy procurement, and circular economy practices.
They are leveraging their core competence—technology—to not only green their own operations but to develop solutions that help entire industries advance the green transition.
This article highlights the Top 10 Sustainable Technology Companies leading this critical shift, examining their 2025 progress and their long-term visions for a better, more environmentally-conscious future.
Revenue: €86.85bn
Employees: 320,000+
Founded: 1847
CEO: Roland Busch
| Goal Focus | Key 2025 Target/Progress | Strategy |
| Carbon Neutrality | Targeting a 55% physical reduction in CO2 emissions from its own business by the end of 2025 (compared to 2019 baseline). | DEGREE sustainability framework; massive capital investment in R&D and facilities. |
| Decarbonization | Plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. | Using Siemens Xcelerator digital twin technology to design and optimize sustainable urban infrastructure. |
Siemens, with its long engineering legacy, is deploying its expertise to solve complex, real-world sustainability challenges. The company has already cut its CO2 emissions by half compared to 2019. Its strategy is anchored by the DEGREE sustainability framework and a massive capital commitment.
In Berlin, the company is investing €750 million as part of a €4.5 billion urban redevelopment project to transform the historical Siemensstadt Square into a carbon-neutral urban district by 2035, utilizing the Siemens Xcelerator end-to-end digital twin and AI to optimize every phase, from planning to operations.
Revenue: US$26.04bn (2024 period)
Employees: 29,600+
Founded: 1993
CEO: Jensen Huang
| Goal Focus | Key 2025 Target/Progress | Strategy |
| Renewable Energy | Achieve and maintain 100% renewable electricity for offices and data centers under operational control by the end of 2025. | Direct procurement and green power purchase agreements (PPAs). |
| Product Efficiency | New Blackwell GPUs are designed to be significantly more energy efficient than traditional CPUs, especially for AI workloads. | Architectural innovation to reduce the energy consumption per unit of AI processing power, a critical need as the demand for Generative AI surg |
As a trillion-dollar company whose semiconductors are the core engine of the AI boom, Nvidia faces intense scrutiny regarding the energy cost of its technology. The company’s primary sustainability contribution is its commitment to energy efficiency in its products. The new Blackwell GPU architecture is engineered to deliver exponential performance improvements while consuming significantly less energy per operation, which directly addresses the soaring power requirements of AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) data centers globally.
Revenue: US$61.86bn
Employees: 282,200+
Founded: 1911
CEO: Arvind Krishna
| Goal Focus | Key 2025 Target/Progress | Strategy |
| Renewable Energy | Procure 75% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025. | Aggressive renewable energy procurement and on-site generation. |
| Operational Efficiency | Improve average data center cooling efficiency by 20% by 2025. | Utilizing AI and IoT to dynamically manage cooling and power loads within its global data center fleet. |
| Emissions | Achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. | Long-term investment in energy efficiency and low-carbon materials across its operations. |
IBM has established clear, near-term targets focused on the core impact areas of the IT industry. By aiming for 75% renewable electricity by 2025 and a 20% improvement in data center cooling efficiency, the company is directly tackling its most significant operational footprints.
This efficiency drive is crucial as data center energy demand continues to rise globally. Their overarching commitment to net zero by 2030 places them among the leaders in the climate transition timeline.
Revenue: US$590.74bn (2023)
Employees: 1.6 million+
Founded: 1994
CEO: Andy Jassy
| Goal Focus | Key 2040 Target/Progress | Strategy |
| Carbon Emissions | Achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040 (The Climate Pledge), ten years ahead of the Paris Agreement. | massive deployment of renewable energy and investment in fleet electrification. |
| Renewable Energy | Achieved 100% renewable electricity matching for its global operations in 2024, seven years ahead of its original 2030 target. | Investing in over 600 wind and solar projects across 29 countries, making it the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy. |
Amazon’s global scale means its sustainability goals have massive implications. The company's achievement of 100% renewable energy matching in 2024 for the second consecutive year is a landmark corporate accomplishment, demonstrating the viability of clean energy at an unprecedented scale.
This is driven by their commitment to The Climate Pledge, which requires signatories to reach net zero by 2040. Amazon's investments, including utility-scale wind and solar projects, are reshaping the energy landscape in multiple regions, including Europe and India.
Revenue: US$211.91bn
Employees: 221,000+
Founded: 1975
CEO: Satya Nadella
| Goal Focus | Key 2030 Target | Strategy |
| Carbon Emissions | To be carbon negative by 2030 (remove more carbon than they emit). | Aggressive reduction of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, and investing in high-quality, long-term carbon removal projects. |
| Water | To be water positive by 2030 (replenish more water than they consume). | Investing in water replenishment projects (e.g., land conservation, water efficiency) in water-stressed regions where they operate, and applying AI to water management. |
| Waste/Circularity | To be zero waste across direct operations by 2030. | Increasing reuse and recycling rates for servers and components. |
Microsoft is known for setting some of the industry’s most ambitious environmental goals, moving beyond neutrality to carbon negative and water positive by 2030. Despite the challenge of rising Scope 3 emissions from their rapidly expanding data center construction (which increased by 30% in 2023), the company is accelerating its efforts.
Progress includes contracting additional renewable and nuclear energy and funding water projects that are expected to deliver over 100 million cubic meters of replenishment volume. Their focus on water positivity is a critical commitment, addressing the substantial water footprint of cooling large-scale data centers.
Revenue: US$381.62bn
Employees: 154,000+
Founded: 1976
CEO: Tim Cook
| Goal Focus | Key 2030 Target | Strategy |
| Carbon Emissions | Achieve net zero across its entire value chain (including its vast supply chain) by 2030. | Prioritizing a 75% reduction in emissions before using offsets for the remainder. |
| Supply Chain | 250+ suppliers committed to using 100% renewable electricity for Apple product production. | Supplier Clean Energy Program, including advocating for policy changes and providing renewable energy procurement guidance. |
| Circularity | Eliminate plastic from product packaging; maximize material recovery using robotics like Daisy. | Product redesign focusing on recycled and renewable materials (e.g., 99% recycled rare earth elements in all magnets). |
Apple’s carbon footprint challenge lies largely in its massive global Scope 3 (supply chain) emissions. By surpassing a 60% reduction in global GHG emissions compared to its 2015 baseline by April 2025, Apple is demonstrating real progress toward its 2030 net zero goal.
Key to this is the Supplier Clean Energy Program, which has helped partners procure nearly 18 gigawatts of renewable energy, avoiding millions of tons of emissions. Furthermore, the company continues to pioneer circularity through material innovation and advanced disassembly robotics.
Revenue: US$134.90bn
Employees: 67,317+
Founded: 2004
CEO: Mark Zuckerberg
| Goal Focus | Key 2030 Target | Strategy |
| Emissions | Achieve net zero value chain (Scope 3) emissions by 2030. | Prioritizing efficiency, circularity, using low-carbon technology in construction (e.g., low-carbon concrete and mass timber), and robust supplier engagement. |
| Supply Chain | Enable at least two-thirds of key suppliers to set science-aligned reduction targets by 2026. | Launching the Clean Energy Procurement Academy (CEPA) to support supplier renewable energy purchases. |
| Operations | Already achieved net zero operations (Scope 1 & 2) in 2020 and uses 100% renewable energy. | Continued investment in utility-scale wind, solar, and next-generation energy (geothermal, nuclear PPAs). |
Despite the dramatic surge in energy demand from its AI and metaverse development, Meta is aggressively pursuing net zero across its entire value chain by 2030. With nearly 99% of its carbon footprint classified as Scope 3 (mostly from capital goods and purchased IT hardware), its focus is on decarbonizing the embodied carbon in its supply chain and data center construction.
Meta is using AI to optimize low-carbon concrete mixes and piloting mass timber construction to drastically cut infrastructure emissions.
Revenue: US$101.6bn
Employees: ~120,000
Founded: 1984
CEO: Michael Dell
| Goal Focus | Key 2050 Target/Progress | Strategy |
| Emissions | Achieve net zero across Scopes 1, 2 and 3 by 2050. | Focusing on product energy efficiency and sustainable material sourcing. |
| Renewable Energy | Source 75% of electricity from renewable sources across all facilities by 2030. | Renewable energy procurement. |
| Materials | Use sustainable materials (recycled plastics, renewable fibers) in products and packaging. | Offering recovery services to recycle old equipment and ensuring all packaging is 100% recycled or renewable materials. |
Dell Technologies is a leader in product circularity. The company integrates sustainable materials, such as ocean-bound plastics and recycled rare earth metals, directly into its computers and devices.
By committing to net zero across all three scopes by 2050, Dell's strategy emphasizes product lifecycle responsibility, ensuring all its packaging is made from recycled or renewable materials and offering recovery services to facilitate the closed-loop recycling of old equipment.
Revenue: US$201.06bn
Employees: 270,000+
Founded: 1969
CEO: Han Jong-hee
| Goal Focus | Key 2050 Target/Progress | Strategy |
| Emissions | Aiming for global net zero by 2050. | Expanding renewable energy use globally, including solar and geothermal facilities, and focusing on energy-efficient products. |
| Renewable Energy | Achieved 100% renewable energy usage for sites in the US, China, and Europe in 2020. | Continued shift toward renewable energy sources in manufacturing-heavy regions (Asia). |
As one of the world's largest consumer electronics manufacturers, Samsung faces the dual challenge of high-energy-intensive manufacturing and massive product volume. Having successfully reached 100% renewable energy usage in major regions (US, China, Europe) in 2020, the company is now focused on the more difficult task of transitioning its global manufacturing sites to meet its net zero by 2050 goal.
Its efforts in 2022 generated a reported sustainability value of $88.9 billion, showcasing the financial benefit of these commitments.
Revenue: US$55.23bn
Employees: 124,800+
Founded: 1968
CEO: Patrick P. Gelsinger
| Goal Focus | Key 2030 Target | Strategy |
| Water | Achieve net-positive water by 2030 (restore more water than consumed). | Water conservation, restoration projects, and maintaining net positive water status in specific regions (e.g., US, India). |
| Waste | Achieve zero waste to landfills by 2030. | Advanced circular economy practices, with 66% of manufacturing waste upcycled in 2024. |
| Emissions | Achieve net zero GHG emissions for Scopes 1 and 2 by 2040. | Maintaining near 100% renewable electricity globally and investing in manufacturing footprint reduction. |
Intel is a leader in addressing the environmental impact of semiconductor manufacturing, focusing heavily on resource conservation. They have successfully maintained 99% renewable electricity globally and have made notable progress toward their ambitious 2030 goals: achieving net-positive water (restoring more water than consumed, particularly vital for water-intensive chip fabrication) and ensuring zero waste to landfills.
Their commitment to upcycling two-thirds of manufacturing waste demonstrates a high level of circularity in a notoriously complex industrial process.
The sustainability goals set by these leading technology companies for 2025 and beyond confirm a fundamental truth: technology is not just an industry that needs greening, but the essential catalyst for the global green future.
The sheer scale of their commitments—from Microsoft’s carbon-negative ambition and Apple’s supply chain decarbonization to Amazon's massive renewable energy purchasing and Intel's water-positive targets—signals a powerful realignment of corporate strategy with planetary health.
The key trend for 2025 is the pivot toward tackling the hardest challenges: Scope 3 emissions (the supply chain) and the exponential energy demand of AI.
By investing in digital twin technology (Siemens), energy-efficient chips (Nvidia), and innovative supply chain engagement (Meta, Apple), these leaders are not only mitigating their own impact but are creating the sustainable tech stack that will enable every other sector, from energy and manufacturing to agriculture, to achieve their own net zero goals.
The success of the green future hinges on their continued innovation and commitment.