Green hosting guide
Is OVHcloud green?
What we can show about OVHcloud'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 “OVHcloud” (provider 1305).
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
Web hosting runs in Gravelines, France and Beauharnois, Canada. OVHcloud's other products run in more countries.
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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| France | 41 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Canada | 192 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0.
OVHcloud's own evidence
2025 Universal Registration Document, sustainability statement
For its directly held datacenters, the Group set itself the target of achieving 100% renewable electricity supply by 2025.
https://corporate.ovhcloud.com/sites/default/files/2025-11/sustainability_statement.pdf November 2025
- Covers
- OVHcloud's own data centres, financial year to August 2025; it reports a renewable energy factor of 100% for 2025, up from 92% in 2024.
- Backed by
- Corporate power purchase agreements (about 65 GWh a year in operation in 2025) plus energy attribute certificates.
- Note
- The named contracts are a small part of the total; certificates make up most of the claim.
Our checker on its website
When the checker launches, this section will show its measurement of OVHcloud'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).