Latest IEA data
460TWh
What the world's data centres use
More electricity than the whole of France uses in a year.
What it means · Roughly the carbon footprint of ~100 million cars driven for a year.
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One tree planted.
One pound of ocean waste removed.
Every user, every month.
Get Clean Compute certified and we turn your user base into verified monthly environmental impact — trees, ocean recovery, and your public badge, all handled.
1 tree per subscribed user / month1 lb of ocean waste removed / monthVerified reforestation & recovery partners
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The problem
The internet is heavier than it looks.
Every streamed video, AI query, and cloud sync uses energy. Most "green" claims online are unverifiable, one-time, and disconnected from the user actually causing the load.
By 2030
1,000+TWh
Projected demand in just 4 years
More than double today — mostly to power AI.
What it means · Adds the emissions of a mid-sized country to the atmosphere — every year.
Right now
~0%
Of this is visible to everyday users
You stream, chat, scroll — the carbon cost stays hidden.
What it means · An average web user causes ~400 kg of CO₂ a year without ever seeing it.
In plain English: the internet now runs on a power grid the size of a country — and it's set to double. Every click, query, and stream adds CO₂ to the air. Today, almost nobody sees that cost, and almost no one pays for it.
Sources & methodology
- 2024 data-centre electricity: IEA, Energy and AI (2025). Global electricity generation supplying data centres reached ~460 TWh in 2024 — roughly 1.5% of global electricity consumption, and more than the total annual electricity use of France.
- 2030 & 2035 projections: IEA, Energy and AI Base Case (2025). Data-centre electricity demand is projected to exceed 1,000 TWh by 2030 and reach ~1,300 TWh by 2035 — more than doubling in six years, with AI as the primary driver.
- User awareness: Qualitative framing — the carbon cost of digital activity is fully externalised and invisible to end users.
The status quo
Greenwashing as usual
- One-off carbon credits bought years ago
- Vague "we plant trees" with no proof
- Neutrality claims disconnected from real usage
- Certifications no customer can verify
Clean Compute
A verifiable per-user commitment
- 1 tree + 1 lb of ocean waste per subscribed user, monthly
- Planted through verified reforestation projects — geo-located, species-documented, with photo and project reporting every cycle
- Funded by the subscribed user actually causing load
- Public accreditation registry + one-click verify badge
How $2 closes the loop
User load
Streaming · AI · sync
1 tree + 1 lb / user / mo
Planted & recovered
Verified badge
One-click public proof
Real trees. Real recovery. Verified every month.
How it works
Certification with the impact built in.
One commitment, one monthly fee. Clean Compute handles the planting, the ocean-waste recovery, and the reporting — so being certified means real work is actually happening.
01
Apply
Tell us about your platform and confirm your subscribed user count. Subscribed users are your active paying subscribers — not free users, not trials.
02
Approval & verification
We review your application and verify your reported figure, then lock in the fixed commitment: 1 tree planted and 1 lb of ocean waste removed per subscribed user, every month.
03
Certification activates
Your first payment activates your certification the same day, with your first month's impact funded immediately and your badge live from that moment.
04
Impact reporting flows in
Tree project details arrive immediately, ocean recovery locations within ~2 weeks, and cleanup completion within 1–2 months — then every month on an ongoing cycle.
How impact is verified
- Monthly signed attestation of subscribed users
- Annual officer declaration
- Public accreditation registry
- Supplier documentation retained and available for independent audit on request
Ocean impact is reported as Funded → Scheduled → Recovered, and is never shown as removed before the Recovered stage.
$49.99/mo platform fee + $2 per subscribed user, per month. Cancel any time.
The proof chain
How we prove it.
Skeptical? Good. That's who we built this for.
- 01
You attest
You confirm your subscribed user count monthly. One number, one click.
- 02
We purchase
Trees and ocean recovery are funded with established partner organizations. Every order is receipted.
- 03
The ledger allocates
Every tree and every pound is assigned to exactly one client. Totals must reconcile or the month doesn't close.
- 04
Partners document
Locations, species, planting photos, and recovery records arrive every cycle.
- 05
You see everything
Your dashboard and monthly report carry the evidence. Documentation is available for independent audit on request.
Partner projects
Where the work happens.
Impact is delivered through established, verified projects run by our reforestation and recovery partners — community-led, monitored, and documented. These projects are examples of the verified work our partner network delivers across Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
KenyaCommunity-led
Mangrove restoration — Kenyan coast
Community-led mangrove planting rebuilding one of the country's most valuable coastal defenses and marine habitats.
TanzaniaCommunity-led
Agroforestry — rural Tanzania
Helping farming communities adopt agroforestry that restores land while securing food and income.
BoliviaMonitored project
Amazon agroforestry — Bolivia
Combating deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon with agroforestry buffers that protect standing forest.
IndiaCommunity-led
Habitat restoration — eastern India
Restoring forest habitat around a national park region critical to endangered wildlife.
United StatesMonitored project
Wildfire recovery — California, USA
Replanting forests lost to increasingly severe wildfires.
FranceMonitored project
Forest recovery — France
Supporting recovery of forests damaged by insects, fire, disease, and drought.
Your dashboard reports the specific projects, species, and locations your impact supports each month.
See what your user base could fund.
Impact calculator
See your monthly impact.
Pick the kind of product you ship and how many subscribed users you have. Every subscribed user means one tree planted and one pound of ocean waste removed, every month.
Light compute, mostly dashboards, docs, and CRUD.
Subscribed users are your paying, active accounts — the number your billing system reports each cycle.
Subscribed users
202,50010,000
3. Your fixed commitment
20
Trees planted / month
20 lb
Ocean waste removed / month
Always 1 tree and 1 lb of ocean waste per subscribed user, per month — no tiers to configure.
Your impact position
Massively impact positive
Your annual planting is estimated to draw down many times your users' digital footprint over its lifetime.
Getting startedImpact positive20×+
Trees / year
240
20 / mo
Ocean waste / year
240 lb
20 lb / mo
Est. user footprint
300 kg
CO₂ / year
Est. lifetime drawdown
12 t
CO₂ over tree lifetimes
At $89.99/mo ($49.99 platform fee + $2 × 20 users), you'd plant 240 trees and remove 240 lb of ocean waste a year.
Footprint figures are industry averages. Sequestration is a lifetime estimate for trees that reach maturity, not an annual offset — Clean Compute does not sell carbon credits or make carbon-neutral claims.
1 tree + 1 lb of ocean waste, per user, per month
What that actually adds up to.
Every subscribed user funds a planted tree and a pound of waste pulled out of the ocean, every single month. Here's what that scales to.
120,000
Trees planted / year
A living forest growing every month, planted with verified reforestation partners.
120,000 lb
Ocean waste removed / year
Plastic and debris collected from oceans, rivers, and coastlines — roughly 2.7M plastic bottles' worth.
6.0k t
Est. CO₂ over the trees' lifetimes
An estimate for trees that reach maturity — a lifetime figure, not an annual offset.
~300
Acres of new forest / year
At ~400 trees per acre, that's real habitat, biodiversity, and restored land.
Real-world equivalents
Put another way, that's like…
Illustrative comparisons based on the estimated lifetime sequestration above — not offset claims.
1.3k cars
Cars off the road
Comparable to taking a gas car off the road for a year.
1.2k homes
Homes powered
Comparable to a year of average U.S. household energy use.
2.7M bottles
Plastic bottles' worth of waste
At ~20 g per empty 500 ml PET bottle, that's the mass of waste kept out of the water.
1 lb of ocean waste per user, per month
Roughly 75% of it plastic — the weight equivalent of about 23 plastic bottles or about 200 plastic bags (approximate equivalents).
~75%
Plastic by weight
~23
Plastic bottles
~200
Plastic bags
Transparency note
Our recovery partners prioritize intercepting ocean-bound waste at coastlines and waterways before it enters the water — roughly 100x more cost-effective than open-ocean harvesting, meaning every dollar removes dramatically more waste.
Ocean impact is reported as Funded → Scheduled → Recovered. Nothing is ever shown as removed before the Recovered stage.
10,000
Subscribed users
120,000
Trees / year
120,000 lb
Ocean waste / year
Verified impact
Reported every cycle
Sources & methodology
- Vehicle emissions: U.S. EPA, Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle. Average gasoline passenger vehicle emits ~4.6 metric tons of CO₂ per year.
- Home energy: U.S. EPA, Household Carbon Footprint Calculator. Average U.S. home energy use produces ~5.1 metric tons of CO₂ per year.
- Tree sequestration (lifetime): Estimates vary widely by species, site, and survival rate. A planted tree that reaches maturity is commonly estimated to sequester roughly 50–100 kg of CO₂ over its lifetime; 50 kg is used here as a conservative figure. This is a lifetime estimate, not an annual offset, and is not a carbon credit.
- Forest density: Standard reforestation planting density of ~400 trees per acre (varies by species and region).
- Ocean waste equivalence: Based on ~20 g per empty 500 ml PET bottle (~0.044 lb, ~23 bottles per pound), used to express recovered waste mass in familiar units.
Clean Compute does not sell carbon credits and makes no carbon-neutral or offsetting claims. Figures above are estimates for illustration; reported trees planted and pounds of waste removed are the verified numbers.
Ready to make it your number?
Why certify
Built for the platforms shaping the internet.
Specific, not vague
A public, auditable commitment: one tree and one pound of ocean waste per subscribed user, per month. No offsets, no neutrality claims.
Real work, two ecosystems
Vetted reforestation partners plant and monitor the trees; recovery partners pull plastic and debris from oceans, rivers, and coastlines.
Earn user trust
Display the Clean Compute badge to show customers their subscription funds measurable environmental work every month.
Marketing-ready impact
Your private dashboard turns each month's numbers into ready-made social, PDF, and email exports — with approved claim language baked in.
Product preview
Your impact, beautifully reported.
cleancompute.eco/dashboardProduct preview
Sample Co
1,240 subscribed users · Sample data
14,880
Trees planted
14,880
Lbs ocean waste recovered
744 t
Est. lifetime CO₂
12
Months certified
Project sites this cycle
Funded (partner region) Scheduled for recovery Recovered / plantedSelect a site to zoom to its satellite imagery. Ocean markers show a partner region while funded.
Example sites · sample data
July 2026 impact report
- Trees planted1,240
- Ocean waste removed1,240 lb
- Est. lifetime CO₂62 t
- Impact stateRecovered
Project stories, photos, species, and locations included with every cycle.
ExportsSocial imagePDF reportEmail block
Every member gets a private dashboard with monthly project stories, photos, impact states, and ready-made exports carrying approved claim language.
The price of doing good
Less than a coffee.
A tree and a cleaner ocean.
A flat $49.99 / month platform & certification fee, plus $2 per subscribed user, per month. The $2 funds the tree, the ocean waste removal, verification, and reporting.
One tree + one pound. Every user.
$49.99 / month platform fee
Plus
$2/ subscribed user / month
1 tree planted 1 lb ocean waste removed
- 1 verified tree planted per subscribed user, every month
- 1 lb of ocean waste removal funded per subscribed user, every month
- Verification, monthly reporting, and approved claim language
- Verified badge, public verification page, and registry listing
- Your pricing is locked at signup — rates never rise for active members
- No setup fees, cancel anytime
Billed monthly · Cancel anytime
What $2 buys in your stack
You're already spending more than this per user on dashboards nobody opens. Redirect $2 into the one line item your customers will actually screenshot.
~$6
Datadog / observability
Per host, per month
~$4
Intercom seat
Per tracked contact
~$5
Segment / analytics
Per monthly user
$2
Clean Compute
A tree + a pound of ocean waste
A real tree, in real soil
Each tree is planted with a verified reforestation partner and, over its lifetime, is estimated to sequester roughly 50–100 kg of CO₂ as it matures.
A pound out of the ocean
Every subscribed user also funds the removal of one pound of plastic and waste from oceans, rivers, and coastlines through our recovery partners.
Compounds every month
1,000 subscribed users becomes 12,000 trees and 12,000 lbs of waste recovered in year one — a measurable record your brand helped create.
The verified badge
A claim you can actually back up.
Once accredited, you receive a badge that links to your live verification page — confirming your accreditation status, your commitment, and your verification ID. Your impact numbers stay private to you.
What you can say
“For every subscribed user, we plant a tree and remove a pound of ocean waste, every month.”
Not a carbon credit · Not a carbon-neutral claim
Certification includes approved claim language for your site and marketing — so your team always knows exactly what you can say.
- Embeddable badge with a live, auto-updating cycle stamp
- Public verification page and listing in the accreditation registry
- Ready-made social, PDF, and email exports in your dashboard
Before you commit
See the evidence before you commit.
Check a live verification page
Every badge links to a live verification page anyone can check.
See a verification pageFAQ
Questions about certification, counting & verification
Clean Compute certifies online platforms that fund verified environmental work every month, in proportion to their subscribed users: one tree planted and one pound of ocean waste removed per subscribed user, per month. The badge shows you meet a public, auditable standard — it is not a carbon credit or a carbon-neutral claim.
No. The rates you join at are locked for the life of your active membership. Any future price changes apply to new members only.
Subscribed users = your active paying subscribers. Not free users, not trials. It is the number your billing system reports at the start of each cycle.
You confirm your subscribed user count once a month — one number, one click. We never access your systems, your customers, or your revenue data.
It's a flat rate: 1 tree and 1 lb of ocean waste per subscribed user, per month. There are no tiers to configure. If you have 1,000 subscribed users, that's 1,000 trees and 1,000 lbs of ocean waste removed that month.
All certified platforms' impact is delivered through Clean Compute's verified monthly impact pool with vetted reforestation and ocean recovery partners. Every tree and every pound is allocated to exactly one client in our ledger, every purchase is receipted, and partner documentation is retained and available for independent audit on request.
A flat $49.99 per month platform & certification fee, plus $2 per subscribed user per month. The $2 funds the tree, the ocean waste removal, verification, and reporting. No setup fees, cancel anytime.
We work with vetted reforestation organisations and ocean- and river-waste recovery partners. Trees are planted through verified reforestation projects — geo-located, species-documented, with photo and project reporting every cycle. Recovery partners prioritise intercepting ocean-bound waste at coastlines and waterways before it enters the water.
Most applications are reviewed within 3–5 business days. Your first payment activates your certification the same day, and your first month's impact is funded immediately. Tree project details arrive immediately, ocean recovery locations within ~2 weeks, and cleanup completion within 1–2 months. Ocean impact is reported as Funded → Scheduled → Recovered and is never displayed as removed before the Recovered stage.
Every accredited platform appears in our public registry, and your badge links to a live verification page confirming your accreditation and commitment. Your impact numbers stay private to you — your dashboard includes ready-made social, PDF, and email exports so you can share your trees and ocean impact with your customers whenever and however you choose.
No — and we'd ask you not to. Clean Compute doesn't sell carbon credits or certify offsets. What you can accurately say is that you fund a verified tree and a pound of ocean waste removal for every subscribed user, every month, with estimated CO₂ sequestration over the trees' lifetimes. Certification includes approved claim language so your team always knows exactly what you can say.
Your commitment scales with it. If subscribed users grow, the next cycle funds more; if they drop, the next cycle adjusts down. You only ever fund the subscribed users you actually have.
Three layers. Every monthly order is receipted at purchase with established partner organizations that have years of operating history and millions of trees planted. Our allocation ledger assigns every tree and pound to exactly one client — totals must reconcile or the month doesn't close. And every cycle we receive project-level documentation — locations, species, planting photos, recovery records — which flows into your dashboard. Partner documentation and receipts are available for independent audit on request.
We work with vetted, established reforestation and ocean-recovery organizations running verified projects across Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, and beyond. We keep the certification supplier-agnostic so we can always direct funds wherever verified impact-per-dollar is highest, and add or change partners without affecting your certification. Full partner documentation is available to clients and auditors on request.
The $2 funds the tree, the pound of ocean waste, and the verification, reporting, and dashboard infrastructure around them. The deliverable is fixed and auditable: 1 tree and 1 lb per subscribed user, every month, receipted — you're buying delivered, verified, reportable impact plus the certification that lets you talk about it safely.
It's permanent. Every tree planted and pound recovered during your membership stays planted and recovered — cancelling stops future cycles, never past impact. Your verification page simply shows the certification as inactive from that point.
Greenwashing is vague claims without verification — this is built as the opposite. A fixed, public, per-user commitment. Monthly signed attestation. Receipted purchases. An allocation ledger. Approved claim language that prohibits carbon-neutral claims. A badge that can be revoked and verified in one click. It's the sustainability claim your legal team will like most.
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