Green hosting guide
Is GoDaddy green?
What we can show about GoDaddy'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 GoDaddy's website and found none. That says nothing either way about the energy behind its hosting; the evidence below is GoDaddy's own.
What GWF verification means, and its new criteria
Where its data centres are
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.
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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| Singapore | 497 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| France | 41 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0.
GoDaddy's own evidence
2025 Global Stakeholder Impact Report
our managed data center in the U.S., have operated on 100% renewable electricity
https://s23.q4cdn.com/406380394/files/doc_downloads/2026/04/2025_GoDaddy_GSIR.pdf April 2026
- Covers
- Only the data centres GoDaddy manages itself (in Europe since 2019, its US one since 2023). Rented space in other companies' data centres is not included.
- Backed by
- not stated
- Note
- GoDaddy's annual report says it leases most of its data-centre capacity, which this claim does not cover.
2025 Global Stakeholder Impact Report, environmental metrics
Total electricity consumption from renewable sources (%) 79 78 75
https://s23.q4cdn.com/406380394/files/doc_downloads/2026/04/2025_GoDaddy_GSIR.pdf April 2026
- Covers
- The whole company; 79% in 2025, 78% in 2024, 75% in 2023.
- Backed by
- not stated
Our reading
- GoDaddy's "100% renewable" covers only the data centres it runs itself; across the company the figure was 79% in 2025.
Our checker on its website
When the checker launches, this section will show its measurement of GoDaddy'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).