GoDaddy vs Namecheap: green hosting compared
GoDaddy and Namecheap side by side: each one's Green Web Foundation listing, where its data centres are and how carbon-intensive those grids are, and the evidence it publishes. They are in alphabetical order: no host pays for its place.
The difference
We found no matching entry for either in the Green Web Foundation's directory.
Neither host's listed countries all have lower-carbon grids than the other's. Across both, their countries' grid averages run from 41 gCO2e/kWh in France (2025) to 497 gCO2e/kWh in Singapore (2025), so which grid your site runs on depends on the region you choose.
On the listing and the grids, the evidence here does not separate them.
These are the facts we can show, not a verdict on which is greener: the listing, the grids and each company's own claims measure different things, and none of them measures your website. Each host's full page has every quote and source.
Each dot is a country where the host lists data centres, placed by that country's grid average. GoDaddy, no matching entry in the Green Web Foundation's directory: 3 countries, from 41 gCO2e/kWh in France to 497 in Singapore. Namecheap, no matching entry in the Green Web Foundation's directory: 4 countries, from 218 gCO2e/kWh in the United Kingdom to 497 in Singapore.
Show the data as a table
| Country | Grid average, gCO2e/kWh | Year | GoDaddy | Namecheap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 41 | 2025 | Yes | No |
| United Kingdom | 218 | 2025 | No | Yes |
| Netherlands | 254 | 2025 | No | Yes |
| United States | 384 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Singapore | 497 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
GoDaddy
- Green Web Foundation
No matching entry in the Green Web Foundation's directory when we checked on 17 October 2026.
We looked for a provider with GoDaddy's website and found none. That says nothing either way about the energy behind its hosting; the evidence below is GoDaddy's own.
- Data centres
United States, Singapore and France
The countries GoDaddy names as its most significant; it owns one data centre (Phoenix) and leases the rest of its capacity. Not a complete list.
- Grid average where they are
- Across the listed countries, from 41 gCO2e/kWh in France (2025) to 497 gCO2e/kWh in Singapore (2025).
- GoDaddy's own evidence
- Evidence checked
- 16 October 2026
Namecheap
- Green Web Foundation
No matching entry in the Green Web Foundation's directory when we checked on 17 October 2026.
We looked for a provider with Namecheap's website and found none. That says nothing either way about the energy behind its hosting; the evidence below is Namecheap's own.
- Data centres
United States, Netherlands, Singapore and United Kingdom
Namecheap's servers in data centres run by other companies, in Phoenix, Amsterdam, Singapore and Farnborough.
- Grid average where they are
- Across the listed countries, from 218 gCO2e/kWh in the United Kingdom (2025) to 497 gCO2e/kWh in Singapore (2025).
- Namecheap's own evidence
- Shared hosting Undated
- Evidence checked
- 16 October 2026
Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0. Listing data from the Green Web Foundation's Green Web Dataset, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL).