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Is Google Cloud green?

What we can show about Google Cloud's hosting, each piece with its source and the date we checked it. Google Cloud is part of Google.

Evidence checked 16 October 2026. Green Web Foundation directory checked 17 October 2026.

Green Web Foundation

Listed in the Green Web Foundation's directory of verified green providers, checked 17 October 2026.

GWF lists it as “Google Cloud” (provider 595).

GWF does not publish when a provider was last verified. Providers verified before October 2026 are reassessed under its new criteria, which no longer accept offsets, at their next reverification.

What GWF verification means, and its new criteria

Where its data centres are

The countries of Google Cloud's public regions.

Each country's average grid carbon intensity, from Ember: the grid where the data centres are, not the provider's own supply.
CountryGrid averageYear
South Africa699 gCO2e/kWh2025
Taiwan (China)634 gCO2e/kWh2025
Hong Kong (SAR of China)676 gCO2e/kWh2024
Japan474 gCO2e/kWh2025
South Korea418 gCO2e/kWh2025
India671 gCO2e/kWh2025
Singapore497 gCO2e/kWh2025
Indonesia705 gCO2e/kWh2025
Thailand526 gCO2e/kWh2025
Australia518 gCO2e/kWh2025
Finland57 gCO2e/kWh2025
Sweden35 gCO2e/kWh2025
Poland591 gCO2e/kWh2025
Spain153 gCO2e/kWh2025
Belgium151 gCO2e/kWh2025
United Kingdom218 gCO2e/kWh2025
Germany334 gCO2e/kWh2025
Netherlands254 gCO2e/kWh2025
Switzerland39 gCO2e/kWh2025
Italy284 gCO2e/kWh2025
France41 gCO2e/kWh2025
Qatar582 gCO2e/kWh2025
Saudi Arabia680 gCO2e/kWh2025
Israel493 gCO2e/kWh2025
Canada192 gCO2e/kWh2025
Mexico481 gCO2e/kWh2025
Brazil109 gCO2e/kWh2025
Chile291 gCO2e/kWh2025
United States384 gCO2e/kWh2025

you can deploy workloads across 43 global regions and 130 zones

https://cloud.google.com/about/locations 13 October 2026

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

Google Cloud's own evidence

Carbon free energy for Google Cloud regions

We aggregate the available average hourly CFE percentage for each Google Cloud region for the year

https://cloud.google.com/sustainability/region-carbon 13 October 2026

Covers
Each Google Cloud region's average for 2025 of hourly carbon-free energy matching (for example London 75%, Singapore 5%).
Backed by
The grid's own clean power plus clean energy Google buys on the same grid, in the same hour.

Google 2026 Environmental Report

we achieved a global average of approximately 65% CFE across our data centers and offices

https://sustainability.google/files/google-2026-environmental-report.pdf June 2026

Covers
All of Google in 2025, as the year's average of hourly carbon-free energy matching.
Backed by
Carbon-free energy matched by the hour; Google also reports a 100% annual match with renewable energy purchases.

Our reading

  • Google is the only provider here that publishes, for each region, a yearly average of hourly carbon-free energy matching; the share varies widely between regions.

Compared with

Our checker on its website

When the checker launches, this section will show its measurement of Google Cloud'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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