Sustainability
While having the security of Web3 blockchains, the performance and power consumption of the Internet Computer (IC) is comparable to Web2 and cloud technology stacks. The IC far outperforms traditional blockchain protocols in efficiency.
* A single Google search is four times more energy intensive than a transaction on the IC.
* A single Ethereum transaction is almost 500 times more energy intensive than an IC transaction.
Energy consumption comparison
To better understand the impact of the efficiency of the IC, it helps to see the comparison of energy costs. Even with conservative estimations, the energy consumption of the Internet Computer is substantially lower than competing blockchain projects, but also existing (highly optimized) web2 tech. See the table to put IC performance in perspective. Performance is measured in kWh/transaction.
- One Internet Computer transaction: 0.006
- One Solana transaction: 0.116
- One Avalanche transaction: 2.7
- One Algorand transaction: 4.760
- One Tezos transaction: 41.450
- One Cardano transaction: 51.590
Scalability and Utility with low Carbon Cost
and we're only getting started
Internet Computer Footprint
Read the collaborative report from Carbon Crowd and DFINITY
Sustainability Policy and Proposals
Check out the summary over on Medium
Real-time Network Metrics
See the IC dashboard for performance and network consumption
Performance and Energy analysis on the IC Wiki
Take a deep dive into the Internet Computer