Google deal makes Amazon reforestation its top source of carbon removal credits

7/11/2025 7:19

Google has agreed to finance restoration of the Amazon rainforest in its biggest deal yet for carbon removal credits, as Big Tech hunts for high-quality credits to offset emissions tied to energy-hungry data centers.



Google and Brazilian reforestation startup Mombak told Reuters the deal would offset 200,000 metric tons of carbon emissions. That is four times the volume of a pilot offtake agreement in September 2024 with Mombak, Google's sole provider of forestry carbon credits.



Both companies declined to comment on the value of the deal.



The agreement highlights how Big Tech is looking for ways to soften the climate impacts of its huge investment in power-intensive data centers for AI, driving demand to offset carbon emissions through Brazil's nascent reforestation industry.



Last year, Alphabet's Google committed more than $100 million to an array of different carbon removal technologies, from enhanced rock weathering and biochar to direct air capture and a project changing river acidity.