Green hosting guide
Is DigitalOcean green?
What we can show about DigitalOcean's hosting, each piece with its source and the date we checked it.
Evidence checked 16 October 2026. Green Web Foundation directory checked 17 October 2026.
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 DigitalOcean's website and found none. That says nothing either way about the energy behind its hosting; the evidence below is DigitalOcean's own.
What GWF verification means, and its new criteria
Where its data centres are
DigitalOcean's datacenters, in space it rents from data-centre operators.
Each country's average grid carbon intensity, from Ember: the grid where the data centres are, not the provider's own supply.| Country | Grid average | Year |
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| United States | 384 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Netherlands | 254 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Singapore | 497 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| United Kingdom | 218 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Germany | 334 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Canada | 192 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| India | 671 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Australia | 518 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0.
Our reading
- We found no current energy disclosure from DigitalOcean.
Our checker on its website
When the checker launches, this section will show its measurement of DigitalOcean's own website: a fact about that one website, not about how its customers' sites are hosted.
Listing data from the Green Web Foundation's Green Web Dataset, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL).