Meta Buys Electric Trucking Capacity on I-10 to Offset Data Center Emissions

Meta will fund 25 battery-electric Class 8 trucks on the Interstate 10 corridor between San Bernardino, California, and Phoenix, Arizona, under a multi-year agreement with electric truckload carrier Nevoya announced Thursday.

The trucks are expected to begin operating in 2027 and to cover roughly 4 million freight miles annually. The deal also brings new charging infrastructure online along the corridor, with charging for all 25 deployed trucks matched 100% with renewable energy certificates.

Here's the commercial twist: Meta's purchase is not tied to physically moving Meta's own freight. Instead, the company is buying environmental attribute certificates, or EACs, the instrument corporations use to address emissions across their value chains, logistics included. Nevoya gets a bankable revenue stream. Meta gets scope 3 credit. Shippers get a scaling electric trucking option in a region that matters.

Why the I-10 matters to Meta

The corridor is not chosen at random. The I-10 is a key route for moving data center construction materials across the southern United States, and the Phoenix-area region is central to Meta's infrastructure buildout. Freight is part of the emissions footprint of building and operating data centers, which makes the lane a natural target for the company's net zero strategy.

Devon Lake, Meta's Head of Net Zero Strategy, framed the deal as a repeatable template rather than a one-off green gesture.

"Coming back to Nevoya for a second corridor reflects what we look for in our value chain work: partners that can scale, and agreements we can repeat," Lake said. "Freight is part of the emissions footprint of building and operating our data centers, and multi-year commitments like this help address our scope 3 emissions and make electric trucking available and competitive on the routes that serve the regions where we build."

What changes for carriers and shippers?

The structure matters as much as the trucks. Companies purchasing EACs provide guaranteed demand that lets electric carriers finance equipment and charging infrastructure before freight volumes fully materialize. That demand signal is what converts pilot projects into standing capacity.

For carriers watching from the sidelines, the takeaway is that Big Tech money is becoming a viable anchor tenant for zero-emission trucking corridors — particularly those feeding hyperscale data center construction in the Sun Belt.

This is Meta's second agreement with Nevoya. In Texas, Meta was one of several buyers in the Center for Green Market Activation (GMA) buyers' alliance, whose collective EAC purchases support Nevoya's 63-truck deployment on the Houston–Dallas corridor. The new I-10 deal is different in kind: a standalone bilateral agreement between Nevoya and Meta, with no aggregator in the middle.

That structure gives Meta a framework to unlock additional corridors in the future. If the model holds, expect direct carrier-of-record agreements between tech buyers and electric trucking operators to multiply alongside alliance-based purchasing.

What comes next

Nevoya expects the 25 I-10 trucks on the road in 2027, covering approximately 4 million freight miles per year with charging matched entirely by renewable energy certificates. With Meta holding a repeatable deal template and hyperscale data center construction continuing across the southern US, further corridor announcements from the pairing look likely.