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Is Microsoft Azure green?

What we can show about Microsoft Azure's hosting, each piece with its source and the date we checked it. Microsoft Azure is part of Microsoft.

Evidence checked 16 October 2026. Green Web Foundation directory checked 17 October 2026.

Green Web Foundation

No matching entry in the Green Web Foundation's directory when we checked on 17 October 2026.

We looked for a provider with Microsoft Azure's website and found none. That says nothing either way about the energy behind its hosting; the evidence below is Microsoft Azure's own.

What GWF verification means, and its new criteria

Where its data centres are

The countries of Azure's public cloud regions; China and US government clouds are separate.

Each country's average grid carbon intensity, from Ember: the grid where the data centres are, not the provider's own supply.
CountryGrid averageYear
Australia518 gCO2e/kWh2025
Austria117 gCO2e/kWh2025
Belgium151 gCO2e/kWh2025
Brazil109 gCO2e/kWh2025
Canada192 gCO2e/kWh2025
India671 gCO2e/kWh2025
United States384 gCO2e/kWh2025
Chile291 gCO2e/kWh2025
Denmark100 gCO2e/kWh2025
Hong Kong (SAR of China)676 gCO2e/kWh2024
France41 gCO2e/kWh2025
Germany334 gCO2e/kWh2025
Indonesia705 gCO2e/kWh2025
Israel493 gCO2e/kWh2025
Italy284 gCO2e/kWh2025
Japan474 gCO2e/kWh2025
South Korea418 gCO2e/kWh2025
Malaysia606 gCO2e/kWh2025
Mexico481 gCO2e/kWh2025
New Zealand92 gCO2e/kWh2025
Ireland263 gCO2e/kWh2025
Norway28 gCO2e/kWh2025
Poland591 gCO2e/kWh2025
Qatar582 gCO2e/kWh2025
South Africa699 gCO2e/kWh2025
Singapore497 gCO2e/kWh2025
Spain153 gCO2e/kWh2025
Sweden35 gCO2e/kWh2025
Switzerland39 gCO2e/kWh2025
United Arab Emirates470 gCO2e/kWh2025
United Kingdom218 gCO2e/kWh2025
Netherlands254 gCO2e/kWh2025

This article contains a list of all regions in the Azure public cloud

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-list 13 October 2026

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

Microsoft Azure's own evidence

2026 Environmental Sustainability Report

In FY25, we achieved our milestone to match 100% of our annual electricity consumption with renewable energy.

https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/msc/documents/presentations/CSR/2026-Microsoft-Environmental-Sustainability-Report-PDF.pdf 9 July 2026

Covers
All of Microsoft, financial year 2025.
Backed by
Mostly (over 90%) long-term power purchase agreements, plus the grid's renewable share; short-term certificates excluded.
Note
Microsoft's total emissions rose 25% in the same year, which it puts down to building datacenters.

Our reading

  • Microsoft's figure covers the whole company over a year; it publishes no Azure-only or per-region figure.

Compared with

Our checker on its website

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