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.| Country | Grid average | Year |
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| United States | 384 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Canada | 192 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Belgium | 151 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| United Kingdom | 218 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Netherlands | 254 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Finland | 57 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Australia | 518 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Singapore | 497 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Israel | 493 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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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
- Covers
- WP Engine's emissions, 2022 to 2024.
- Backed by
- not stated
- 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.
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).