Net positive. From day one.
AI infrastructure has real environmental costs, and we don't have the full accounting yet. We're not waiting until we do — we pledge to cover them 105% over time, saving toward it from day one, and refining the accounting, savings, and spending for offsets as our understanding improves. To claim or wait for perfection here would delay doing the right thing, so we intend to proceed to doing the right thing with our best data and efforts.
The commitment is to offset 105% of your usage's impact, on whatever infrastructure it runs on, not a claim tied to one vendor. We do the best accounting the public data allows, and offset the rest. AWS is where we run today, and their published data lets us be as precise as possible. As we add other providers, we will extend the same discipline, even where the data is less complete.
Energy: already covered. We add more.
AWS achieved 100% renewable electricity matching in 2023, seven years ahead of their 2030 goal. By running on AWS, carbon neutrality for energy is built into our cost of doing business. We add 5% additional verified carbon offsets on top through Gold Standard or Verra VCS certified projects. For every ton of CO2 attributable to our infrastructure, we fund the removal of 1.05 tons.
100%
AWS renewable energy
+ 5%
Comitas carbon offsets
= 105%
net positive
Water: we close the gap today, not in 2030.
Data centers consume water for cooling. AWS has committed to being water-positive by 2030, but they're not there yet. As of 2026, AWS is 75% of the way to their water-positive goal, up from 53% reported in 2024. We cover the remaining gap plus 5% more through water restoration partnerships in the same watersheds where our infrastructure operates.
Where the money goes
We follow AWS's lead on regional partners rather than build our own vetting process from scratch. AWS already funds and vets water restoration organizations in the same watersheds where its data centers operate — for our primary region (Oregon, us-west-2) and as we expand to others.
We haven't finalized our own funding agreements with specific partners yet. As we do, region by region, we'll name them here — along with what we've funded and the certificates behind it.
How we measure and report
Carbon: the AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool provides our CO2e emissions per region. We read the number and buy 5% more in verified offsets. No estimation required.
Water: AWS publishes Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) per region — liters of water consumed per kilowatt-hour of IT load. We multiply our energy consumption (from the Carbon Footprint Tool) by the regional WUE to calculate our water footprint. Then we restore the gap plus 5%.
Frequency: quarterly, matching the cadence of AWS's reporting data.
Disclosure: emissions, offset purchases, water restoration funding, partner names, and verification certificates — published quarterly on this page.
Per-user impact: each customer will see their share of the platform's environmental contribution — their percentage of quarterly compute applied to the total offsets purchased.
If we get the estimate wrong: this is an estimate, and we may find we've under-covered our actual impact as our understanding improves. If that happens, we don't just adjust the rate going forward — we make a plan to cover the gap we missed, retroactively, once we've recalculated it.
Model providers
As we add model providers beyond AWS, we extend this commitment to cover those workloads. We can't measure what providers don't publish, but we research and report what's available: each provider's stated environmental commitments, the verified results where they exist, and the gap where they don't. Comparison creates pressure. We use it.
The bottom line
The extra 5% ensures that every user will be a net positive for the environment. The platform fee is tuned over time for sustainable growth and continued public value, not to maximize what gets extracted from it.