Energy consumption of Instagram features 2020

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Stacy Jo Dixon,
Jul 27, 2022
In 2020, publishing a story or a photo consumed less than five milliampere-hour (mAh), compared to viewing or hosting a live, which had an energy consumption of about four and a half times higher. Publishing a photo or scrolling through a feed on Instagram were the most impactful actions on the environment in terms of transforming this energy consumption into carbon (CO2) emissions, with a value of around 1.55 grams of CO2 equivalent.

Energy consumption of Instagram functionalities in 2020 (in milliampere hour)

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Release date

July 2020

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

The source does not provide an exact survey date. The date provided is the publication date.

The source adds the following information: "The Instagram mobile application (version 148.0.033.121) was measured on an S7 smartphone (Android 8), and the user scenarios (publish a story, publish a picture, scrolling the news feed, hosting a live, and viewing a live video).
To assess the impacts of the mobile in the carbon projection calculations, the source has measured the energy consumption of the user scenario on a real device and in order to integrate the material impact share, the source relied on the theoretical wear rate generated by the user scenario on the battery, the first wearing part of a smartphone. 500 full charge and discharge cycles therefore cause a change of smartphone in the model."
The source specifies the testing times for each feature:
- publish a story: 22 seconds
- publish a picture: 59 seconds
- scrolling the news feed: 63 seconds
- hosting a live: 119 seconds
- viewing a live video: 119 seconds

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