Leadership About Vision How We Operate What We Create How We Collaborate Looking Ahead Data Index Setting the standard for data center sustainability Integrating circularity To enable greater circularity In our data centers, we prioritize process and have landed within our supply chain, we SIMPLIFIED VIEW OF META’S APPROACH the use of post-consumer hundreds of new racks We believe evolving from linear focus on eliminating the use TO CIRCULARITY IN OUR DATA CENTERS recycled (PCR) plastics and containing reused components to circular production and of hazardous substances and recycled metal in our hardware within our fleet. The quality consumption is critical for a prioritizing the responsible and system design to enable a of the reused components better reality, which is why we takeback, reuse, and recycling more circular supply chain, and continues to show excellent have integrated circularity into of electronic equipment. Our thus, reduce the embedded results, with some of the our net zero emission strategy. Materials of Concern Standard Materials carbon in our hardware. oldest racks with the reused Recycle Limiting the use of new materials and Electronics Reuse and components already at two helps us prevent waste and Recycling Standard support Avoiding emissions in our years of age and continuing to avoids upstream emissions. safe and healthy environments upstream supply chain means perform well under real-world Beyond our operations, we see it for anyone who manufactures, Refurbish using less, where possible. To production workloads. We as our responsibility to use our uses or recycles Meta hardware. Supply chain achieve this, we are investing in expect to closely monitor the consumer hardware products, systems that will extend the life hardware health for all the racks family of apps and knowledge to Repair of our hardware and reusing as and iterate on our practices catalyze circularity in our industry many components as possible in moving forward. We have also and beyond. our data center production. extended the estimated average useful life of a majority of our Data center Since 2021, we have been servers from four to five years. validating the reliability and quality of reused components through a rigorous evaluation 2023 Meta Sustainability Report 24