about akamai
Akamai (NASDAQ AKAM), is one of the world's largest cloud content delivery platforms in the world with approximately 30% of the world's web traffic on their servers. Its global infrastructure spans over 130 countries, with over 250 000 servers in over 1 000 data centre locations.
Challenge
In 2016, Akamai set a goal to use 50% renewable energy by 2020, but because of their complex operating model, collecting, analysing and reporting the energy and carbon data to support this goal was complicated by:
Challenge
- Diverse geographies and ownership models
- Manual data collection and calculation
- Rigid workflows
- Lack of asset level tracking
- Thousands of data points to be processed in real time
Encumbered by manual and incomplete data capture, quality control, and calculations, the sustainability team was overwhelmed by the tactical at the expense of their strategic vision.
Solution
Akamai selected FigBytes' now AMCS intuitive ESG platform to help reach their sustainability goals and turn complex data collection and calculations into simple reporting that supported their strategic vision and engaged stakeholders.
Solution
- Converts energy data to carbon with global emission factors database
- Captures data with bulk data uploads and APIs while providing asset-level granularity
- Flexes to fit custom workflows and on demand reporting
- Scales functionality and pricing to support global organisations
- Engages stakeholders with data-driven infographics and microsites
Results
Unified Data leverages insights from over 250,000 servers across 130 countries to improve efficiency through automation, while boosting stakeholder engagement with compelling data-driven storytelling.
Results
Unified Data
- From more than 250,000 servers across 130 countries
Improved Efficiency
- By automating manual, time-consuming tasks
Increased Engagement
- Of key stakeholders with data-driven storytelling
FigBytes (now AMCS) automates emission factor management and has the ability to recalculate GHG when emission factors were updated by the EPA and IEA. We also like the system's flexibility in tracking many different facility variables including the various forms of renewable energy.