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.
CountryGrid averageYear
United States384 gCO2e/kWh2025
Netherlands254 gCO2e/kWh2025
Singapore497 gCO2e/kWh2025
United Kingdom218 gCO2e/kWh2025
Germany334 gCO2e/kWh2025
Canada192 gCO2e/kWh2025
India671 gCO2e/kWh2025
Australia518 gCO2e/kWh2025

DigitalOcean has 16 datacenters across 13 regions.

https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/regional-availability/ 9 October 2026

Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0.

DigitalOcean's own evidence

Our reading

  • We found no current energy disclosure from DigitalOcean.

Compared with

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).

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