Meta has confirmed it is no longer a member of the corporate renewable energy initiative RE100, ending a decade-long membership. Meanwhile, the company continues to expand its natural gas power generation footprint to meet the rapidly growing electricity demands of its AI data centers.

Over the past year, power plant projects have been launched one after another.

As AI businesses drive up computing power demands, Meta continues to procure renewable energy while accelerating the construction of natural gas power plants. TechCrunch reports that Meta has supported at least a dozen natural gas power plants in the past year.

• The 200-megawatt project in Ohio will be announced in June 2025.
• Subsequently, three large power plants were developed in Louisiana.
• In April 2026, seven more power stations were added to the same project.

The 10 power plants serving the Hyperion data center have a combined installed capacity of 7.5 gigawatts. According to reports, this is equivalent to, or even higher than, the total electricity consumption of South Dakota.

RE100 membership relationship ended

RE100, initiated by the UK non-profit Climate Group, primarily provides policy and technical support to businesses aiming for 100% renewable electricity. Meta told TechCrunch that the withdrawal was a mutual decision, but did not specify the reasons.

The report mentions that Climate Group recently updated its member company guidelines, requiring stricter disclosure of progress toward renewable energy targets. Meta had previously told RE100 that it planned to have all its operations powered by renewable electricity by 2020.

Currently, Apple, Google, and Microsoft remain members of RE100. Earlier, Recharge News had already reported Meta's withdrawal from the organization.

The statement regarding renewable energy will remain unchanged.

Meta, through a spokesperson, stated that it remains committed to aligning its data center electricity consumption with "100% clean and renewable energy." The report notes that such goals are typically achieved by purchasing environmental property certificates, which offset annual data center electricity consumption with renewable electricity generated in other regions.

TechCrunch also mentioned that some tech companies are trying to match electricity consumption and generation on an hourly basis to reduce the discrepancy between statistical figures and actual power supply. Microsoft is pushing for a stricter matching method, and Google is also using renewable energy combined with battery storage in some projects.

The report suggests that Meta is not the only tech company investing in fossil fuel projects, but its bets on natural gas to expand its AI data center business are particularly noteworthy.