Green hosting guide
Is IONOS green?
What we can show about IONOS's hosting, each piece with its source and the date we checked it. IONOS is part of United Internet.
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 “IONOS SE” (provider 564).
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
IONOS's own data centres and rented space in other companies' data centres; its pages do not say which hosting runs where.
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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| Germany | 334 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| France | 41 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| United Kingdom | 218 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Spain | 153 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| United States | 384 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0.
Our reading
- IONOS's web pages say its data centres run on 100% renewable electricity; its report limits that to its own nine sites.
Our checker on its website
When the checker launches, this section will show its measurement of IONOS'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).