Green hosting guide
Is GreenGeeks green?
What we can show about GreenGeeks'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
Listed in the Green Web Foundation's directory of verified green providers, checked 17 October 2026.
GWF lists it as “GreenGeeks LLC” (provider 612).
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
Four data-centre locations a customer can choose between; the operators are not named.
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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| Canada | 192 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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Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0.
GreenGeeks's own evidence
Going green
We then have BEF purchase RECs 3 times as much than we have consumed
https://www.greengeeks.com/going-green/ Undated
- Covers
- The whole company, each year.
- Backed by
- Renewable energy certificates (RECs) bought through the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, against an estimate of the electricity used.
- Note
- Certificates bought separately from the electricity; they add no clean supply at the data centres themselves.
Renewable energy certificate from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation
GreenGeeks, LLC for 300% of estimated 2025 electricity use
https://www.greengeeks.com/_ipx/_/img/going-green-certificate.jpg 23 January 2026
- Covers
- The company's estimated electricity use in 2025.
- Backed by
- Green-e certified RECs from North American projects.
- Note
- The certificates are North American; two of the four data centres are in the Netherlands and Singapore.
Data center
every watt we use is matched 300% by renewable energy.
https://www.greengeeks.com/about/data-center Undated
- Covers
- All operations.
- Backed by
- RECs, as above.
Our reading
- The 300% figure is three times an estimate of electricity use, not a measurement, matched with certificates bought on another continent for two of the four sites.
Our checker on its website
When the checker launches, this section will show its measurement of GreenGeeks'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).