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.
CountryGrid averageYear
Germany334 gCO2e/kWh2025
France41 gCO2e/kWh2025
United Kingdom218 gCO2e/kWh2025
Spain153 gCO2e/kWh2025
United States384 gCO2e/kWh2025

Our facilities are located in the United Kingdom, other European countries and in the United States.

https://cloud.ionos.co.uk/data-centres Undated

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

IONOS's own evidence

IONOS Group Sustainability Report 2025, colocation data centres

averages of the national grid mix where relevant

https://www.ionos-group.com/fileadmin/Publications/Berichte/FY_2025/IONOS_Sustainability_Report_2025.pdf Undated

Covers
Rented space in other companies' data centres; 90.4% renewable electricity in 2025.
Backed by
The operators' own claims, certificates bought by IONOS, and the renewable share of national grids.
Note
Counting the grid's average renewable share is a weaker basis than a supply contract.

Our reading

  • IONOS's web pages say its data centres run on 100% renewable electricity; its report limits that to its own nine sites.

Compared with

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).

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