Green hosting guide

Is WP Engine green?

What we can show about WP Engine'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 WP Engine's website and found none. That says nothing either way about the energy behind its hosting; the evidence below is WP Engine's own.

What GWF verification means, and its new criteria

Where its data centres are

Shared plans run on Google Cloud in these countries; premium plans can also use AWS or Azure, 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.
CountryGrid averageYear
United States384 gCO2e/kWh2025
Canada192 gCO2e/kWh2025
Belgium151 gCO2e/kWh2025
United Kingdom218 gCO2e/kWh2025
Netherlands254 gCO2e/kWh2025
Finland57 gCO2e/kWh2025
Australia518 gCO2e/kWh2025
Singapore497 gCO2e/kWh2025
Israel493 gCO2e/kWh2025

All shared plans are created by default on Google Cloud Services in the region closest to your location at signup.

https://wpengine.com/support/servers/ 27 August 2026

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

WP Engine's own evidence

Sustainability

from 2022 to 2024, we’ve been able to reduce our emissions by 51%

https://wpengine.com/sustainability/ 18 March 2026

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WP Engine's emissions, 2022 to 2024.
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Note
No absolute emissions, scopes or method are published for the 51% reduction.

Our reading

  • WP Engine's sustainability page otherwise describes its cloud providers' own targets.

Compared with

Our checker on its website

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