Meta Piloting Mass Timber for Sustainable Construction of Data Centers

Meta—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp—is adding mass timber to its lower-emissions construction strategy, part of its broader goal to reach net-zero emissions across its supply chain by 2030, ESG Dive reported (8-5-25).

Meta is also a member of the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Sustainable Steel Buyers platform and has previously piloted the use of low-carbon concrete in data centers.

Meta estimates that incorporating mass timber into its administrative buildings will decrease the embodied carbon emissions of those facilities by 41%. In addition to the wood having less lifecycle emissions than concrete or steel, the lower weight also reduces the amount of concrete necessary for the building’s foundation.

The first administrative building Meta completed with mass timber was constructed at the company’s Aiken County, South Carolina campus this year, the company said. Meta received the wood building materials from SmartLam and DPR led the construction.

Meta will partner with Fortis Construction and Mercer Mass Timber to build additional mass timber buildings at its Cheyenne, Wyoming, campus. Meanwhile, construction firm Hensel Phelps and mass timber company Binderholz will handle work at the tech giant’s Montgomery, Alabama, site.

Meta said it plans to experiment with using mass timber in more administrative buildings, warehouses, and data halls going forward.