Green hosting guide
Is Namecheap green?
What we can show about Namecheap'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
No matching entry in the Green Web Foundation's directory when we checked on 17 October 2026.
We looked for a provider with Namecheap's website and found none. That says nothing either way about the energy behind its hosting; the evidence below is Namecheap's own.
What GWF verification means, and its new criteria
Where its data centres are
Namecheap's servers in data centres run by other companies, in Phoenix, Amsterdam, Singapore and Farnborough.
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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| United States | 384 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Netherlands | 254 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Singapore | 497 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| United Kingdom | 218 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0.
Namecheap's own evidence
Shared hosting
Our datacenters in the Netherlands, Singapore, and United Kingdom are powered by 100% renewable power sources.
https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared/ Undated
- Covers
- The Netherlands, Singapore and UK data centres only.
- Backed by
- not stated
- Note
- The US data centre, where Namecheap's VPS and dedicated servers run, is not included.
Our checker on its website
When the checker launches, this section will show its measurement of Namecheap'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).