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Green hosting guide

Is Kinsta green?

What we can show about Kinsta'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 “Kinsta” (provider 1226).

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 data centres a customer can choose, now on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; Kinsta previously ran on Google Cloud.

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
Indonesia705 gCO2e/kWh2025
Australia518 gCO2e/kWh2025
India671 gCO2e/kWh2025
Japan474 gCO2e/kWh2025
South Korea418 gCO2e/kWh2025
Singapore497 gCO2e/kWh2025
Canada192 gCO2e/kWh2025
Netherlands254 gCO2e/kWh2025
Germany334 gCO2e/kWh2025
Spain153 gCO2e/kWh2025
Italy284 gCO2e/kWh2025
France41 gCO2e/kWh2025
Sweden35 gCO2e/kWh2025
Switzerland39 gCO2e/kWh2025
Israel493 gCO2e/kWh2025
United Arab Emirates470 gCO2e/kWh2025
Saudi Arabia680 gCO2e/kWh2025
Mexico481 gCO2e/kWh2025
Colombia190 gCO2e/kWh2025
Chile291 gCO2e/kWh2025
Brazil109 gCO2e/kWh2025
United Kingdom218 gCO2e/kWh2025
United States384 gCO2e/kWh2025

When creating your site, you can choose from 30 data centers

https://kinsta.com/docs/service-information/data-center-locations/ 2 February 2026

which uses different data center locations than our previous Google Cloud setup

https://kinsta.com/docs/service-information/infrastructure-upgrades/ 1 April 2026

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

Kinsta's own evidence

What Makes Kinsta the Best Green Hosting?

Kinsta's high performance hosting solutions are powered by 100% renewable energy.

https://kinsta.com/green-hosting/ 2 June 2021

Covers
Hosting in general; no regions or year.
Backed by
not stated
Note
The sentence appears only in the page's description for search engines, not in its text, and was written in 2021, when Kinsta ran on Google Cloud.

Our reading

  • Kinsta has moved its hosting to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; its green claims date from its Google Cloud years, and we found none about the new infrastructure.

Compared with

Our checker on its website

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