New research from Greenpeace East Asia has revealed that Chinese data center and cloud computing companies kept growing their reliance on clean power all through 2025, even with AI infrastructure driving demand sharply upward.
Eight of the 25 firms surveyed pushed their clean electricity share past 30% by August 2026, a sharp jump from the group’s 2024 findings, when just a single company had crossed that threshold. Tencent’s clean-power share stood at 48.5%, and GDS pulled even further ahead at 60%.
Momentum on formal commitments has grown too, though unevenly. More than half the surveyed group, fourteen companies in total, now run under some form of active carbon-neutrality commitment, and another eleven have pledged to go fully renewable eventually, though two of those commitments carry no hard 2030 cutoff.
Alibaba’s version of that pledge is unusually specific, promising an entirely clean-powered cloud business within four years. None of the other thirteen firms in the study has made a similar all-renewable promise public.
Supply chain accountability remains a weaker spot. Just two companies, Tencent and Alibaba Cloud, have gone further and pledged to zero out scope 3 emissions by 2030. That category covers pollution generated both before a product reaches the company and after it leaves, throughout the wider supply network. Roughly half the group, thirteen firms, shared at least partial data on that front, leaving the rest offering little visibility into that part of their footprint.
Tang Damin, a Beijing-based project manager at Greenpeace East Asia, praised the broad uptick in clean energy’s share of company power mixes despite ballooning demand tied to artificial intelligence, though she warned that keeping pace with all the fresh computing capacity coming online will demand real ingenuity from the sector.
Firms will have to get creative and deliberate, in her view, if they want dependable, lasting access to clean power. Greenpeace East Asia wants the industry to commit to a firm 2030 deadline for going fully renewable.
The group is also calling for closer partnerships with utilities, generators, and electricity suppliers to grow the volume of clean power actually reaching company operations. Beyond that, it wants firms to cut their own emissions first instead of buying offsets, and to pressure vendors up the supply chain to clean up their own output.
Companies should also be more forthcoming about environmental data going forward, the group said. This research is part of Greenpeace East Asia’s long-running Clean Cloud initiative, which has spent roughly a decade tracking power use inside China’s cloud and data center sector as the industry’s footprint keeps expanding.
It would be interesting to see how the growth trajectory of renewable energy firms like GeoSolar Technologies Inc. would transform if they got a handful of data center developers as clients wishing to green their entire power footprint.
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