Amazon has announced progress on a series of water sustainability projects in India.

According to the hyperscaler, none of the company’s data centers in the country use water for cooling purposes and instead rely on air-cooled chillers. When it does utilize water for landscaping or biodiversity maintenance, it prioritizes recycled sewage water rather than potable water.

Alongside this, the company announced that it achieved water positivity in India ahead of its 2027 target, claiming to return 120 percent of the water it used across its direct operations.

As part of this effort, Amazon announced it is investing more than ₹62 crore ($7.4 million) towards water stewardship initiatives across the country, with the projects expected to replenish more than four billion liters of water annually once completed.

The projects include a partnership with non-profit Search in Hyderabad, which has rehabilitated ten existing water storage ponds and constructed 100 new ponds across 12 villages, delivering nearly 86 million liters annually. In Mumbai, Amazon is collaborating with ICRISAT on a ₹10 crore ($1.2 million) water restoration project spanning 1,500 hectares in Maharashtra's Vaitarna hydrobasin. The project is expected to replenish 1.3 billion liters annually and be completed in 2027.

In June, Amazon announced that its data centers consumed 2.5 billion gallons of water last year, a two percent drop from the year prior. Amazon did not include indirect water usage at the power plants providing electricity, nor other water impacts, including construction.

The data centers use free air cooling for around 90 percent of the time, Amazon said. While Google and Meta provide water usage data for individual facilities, Amazon did not disclose site-specific information.

Amazon currently operates 26 facilities using 100 percent reclaimed water, with 130 more contracted globally.