Mark Zuckerberg
Aircraft: Gulfstream G650
Tail numbers: N68885
Ownership: FAA registry links N68885 to entities associated with Mark Zuckerberg per media reports
All-time CO₂: 158.2 metric tons (16 flights)
YTD CO₂: 76.3 metric tons (11 flights)
- what 129.1 average Americans produce in a month (US EPA, 2024 Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (annual figure divided by 12) — https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks)
- driving 391,487 miles in a car (US EPA — avg passenger vehicle emits 404 g CO2/mile)
- 98.9 transatlantic economy round-trips (ICAO Carbon Calculator — economy JFK-LHR round-trip ≈ 1.6 t CO2)
- 7,189 trees working for a full year to absorb (US Forest Service — one mature tree absorbs ~22 kg CO2/year)
- 376.6 months of powering an avg US home (US EIA — avg US home electricity ≈ 5 t CO2/year)
- charging your phone 19,770,100 times. Every day for 54,165 years. (US EPA — charging a smartphone ≈ 8 g CO2)
- manufacturing 2,197 brand new iPhones from scratch (Apple Environmental Report 2024 — iPhone lifecycle ≈ 72 kg CO2e)
- 790,804,000 Google searches. You could Google "is my private jet bad for the environment" 790,804,000 times. (Google Environmental Report — one Google search ≈ 0.2 g CO2)
- the carbon footprint of 43,934 cheeseburgers. That's 14,644.5 meals a day for 40.1 years. (Journal of Cleaner Production 2023 — one cheeseburger ≈ 3.6 kg CO2)
- 501.5 years of 24/7 non-stop Netflix. You could watch every show ever made. Twice. (IEA — streaming one hour of video ≈ 36 g CO2)
- the CO₂ dissolved in 23,258,941 bottles of champagne. That's 1,938,245 cases. Pop responsibly. (Chemistry — 750 mL champagne contains ~6.8 g dissolved CO2)
- enough CO₂ to fill 6,281,243 party balloons — except they'd all sink because CO₂ is heavier than air. Sad party. (Ideal gas law — 1 kg CO2 ≈ 556 liters at STP)
- 645.6 human cremations. One flight = literally incinerating 646 people's worth of carbon. (Cremation Assoc. of North America — one cremation ≈ 245 kg CO2)
- producing 790,804 eggs. A hen lays ~300/year. That's the lifetime output of 527 hens. (Poultry Science 2014 — one egg ≈ 0.2 kg CO2e)
- 173,803 hot showers. You could shower every single day for 476.2 years. But sure, you're the problem for leaving the water running. (UK Energy Saving Trust — 8-min gas-heated shower ≈ 0.91 kg CO2)
- 65,900 loads of laundry. Do one load a week and that's 1,267.3 years of clean clothes. (The Guardian / Carbon Trust — one 40°C wash + tumble dry ≈ 2.4 kg CO2)
- 11,297,200,000 human farts. The average person would need to fart for 2,210,802 years to match this one flight. (Duke Univ. — avg fart ≈ 0.5 g methane × 28 GWP ≈ 14 mg CO2e)
- what you exhale by simply existing and breathing for 481.5 years. One flight = a lifetime of being alive. (EPA — avg person exhales ~0.9 kg CO2/day)
- 373,903 avocados. That's 1,024.4 years of daily avocado toast. Remember when they blamed millennials? (Carbon Trust — one avocado ≈ 423 g CO2 (incl. transport))
- brewing 316,322 pints of beer. That's 1,582 Oktoberfests. Prost. (Berners-Lee "How Bad Are Bananas?" — one pint of beer ≈ 500 g CO2)
- fully charging a Tesla 6,227 times. About 1,681,237 miles of EV driving. They flew 391,487 miles instead. By jet. (US EIA avg grid — Tesla Model 3 (60 kWh) full charge ≈ 25.4 kg CO2)
- keeping a pet goldfish for 6,326 years. The goldfish would die of old age 633 times over. (Univ. of Edinburgh — keeping one goldfish ≈ 25 kg CO2/year)
- permanently melting 474.5 m² of Arctic sea ice. Every flight, a little more ice just... gone. (Science 2016 (Notz & Stroeve) — 1 ton CO2 melts ~3 m² Arctic sea ice)
- enough CO₂ gas to fill 35.2 Olympic swimming pools. You could not swim in them. You would die. (Ideal gas law — 1 kg CO2 ≈ 556 liters at STP)
Flight History
| Date | Route | Duration | CO₂ | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/26/2026 | KPAO → ? | 0.3h | 1.5 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/25/2026 | ? → KPAO | 1.7h | 8.3 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/23/2026 | KPAO → ? | 1.7h | 8 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/23/2026 | ? → KPAO | 0.3h | 1.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/14/2026 | KPAO → ? | 0.3h | 1.6 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/14/2026 | KBUR → KPAO | 0.7h | 3.4 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/14/2026 | KPAO → KBUR | 0.8h | 3.9 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/14/2026 | ? → KPAO | 0.2h | 1.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/6/2026 | KPAO → ? | 0.3h | 1.5 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/5/2026 | PHLI → KPAO | 4.7h | 22.4 metric tons | View sources |
| 1/4/2026 | ? → PHLI | 4.8h | 23.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 12/17/2025 | ? → ? | 3.9h | 18.6 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/26/2025 | ? → ? | 3.2h | 15.2 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/4/2025 | KPAO → ? | 0.3h | 1.6 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/4/2025 | ? → KPAO | 9.1h | 43.6 metric tons | View sources |
| 10/2/2025 | RJOO → ? | 0.6h | 2.9 metric tons | View sources |