We believe in a world in which technology supports each of us, as well as the planet that sustains us.
We dream of a world of empowered people connecting the dots and co-creating the internet and the economy of the future.
To keep up with ever-increasing demand, to save our collective resources, and to make both access to the internet and participation in the global economy more inclusive for people world-wide, we need next level technologies for the new world.
ThreeFold’s open source technology enables the creation of an internet by everyone for everyone.
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Data will be the gold of the new digital economy.
The need for data is growing exponentially due to increasing internet use, self-driving cars and the Internet of Things.
The existing global economic model is reaching its limits, excluding many and diminishing finite resources.
To achieve our dream of a more empowered global community, resource-saving technology and a more inclusive economy, our vision is to:
The internet today is heavily centralized, owned and controlled by a few large corporations who control 80% of internet infrastructure and storage capacity. This results in inequalities in unequal distribution and issues with speed and connectivity.
The need for internet capacity is growing exponentially, both the number of users around the globe and the sheer volume of connected devices. The current architecture of hyperscale data centers is not able to cope with this demand.
Data centers are built only in energy dense areas because they consume huge amounts of energy
If consumers in Turkey had to use electricity generated in the USA, it would be expensive and inefficient, because it is generated at too remote a distance.. Transmission lines would be strained, and losses and repairs would make it unsustainable. There would be multiple areas without access to electricity.
This is exactly what is happening with the internet today.
Some of the major technical problems with the internet are:
Threefold believes the solution to this trillion dollar problem is the migration of internet infrastructure to the “Edge”, close to the users.
Our technology enables a maximally distributed grid of data and compute capacity, generated by many small nodes owned by individual farmers.
To gain efficiency in IT infrastructure and services, we are applying a new paradigm- eradicating the human element in IT management- to architecting, provisioning, deployment and operation of IT infrastructures.
An operating system that erases multiple layers and delivers compute and storage capacity everywhere, much closer to the hardware, making it cost efficient and energy saving.
Traditional data centers employ an always “on” mode even when hardware is not being used. ThreeFold internet is better for the planet as it consumes a fraction of the electricity that traditional data centers do via a standby mode- just like sleep mode on your laptop.
ThreeFold Grid is live, launched in March 2018.
