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.
CountryGrid averageYear
United States384 gCO2e/kWh2025
Canada192 gCO2e/kWh2025
Netherlands254 gCO2e/kWh2025
Singapore497 gCO2e/kWh2025

4 Global Data Center Locations

https://www.greengeeks.com/about/data-center Undated

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

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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.

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.

Compared with

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).

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