The purpose of this research is the identification of key features of green digital business that is focused on functioning in the sphere of the high-tech industry. We analyse the main directions for the formation of the environmentally-oriented business sector in the sphere of high-tech productions, which are connected with digitalization. We consider and assess the advantages and shortcomings of these directions at the level of government and corresponding infrastructure. We also elaborate on the conditions that facilitate the effective implementation of the analysed directions for the ecologization of high-tech production. Research methods that were applied in this research include the method of sampling, comparative method and compositional method. The novel aspect of this research consists in the determination of the characteristics of the environmental formation of high-tech production at the level of modern business in the sphere of the digital economy. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.