7.7 - What were your organization's gross global Scope 2 emissions in metric tons CO2e?

Akamai owns and operates its network equipment while outsourcing data center operations to third-party vendors also known as colocation providers. Akamai's Scope 2 footprint encompasses the consumption of purchased energy at office and colocation operations. This includes Akamai's global platform IT equipment electricity usage, the subsequent power usage effectiveness (PUE) from the IT equipment, leased office electricity usage, and the energy used for heating Akamai's leased office space. Akamai has office locations in 20 countries that consist of leased buildings or floors not fully owned or operated by Akamai. From utility invoices, property management contracts, and the help of the Global Real Estate and Workplace Productivity team, Akamai maintains an inventory of our office electricity and fuel consumption. The inventory includes offices that are sub-leased to other tenants. Due to our colocation contract structures, Akamai cannot collect power data directly from the utility meters across our deployments. Instead, Akamai looks at the lab-tested maximum power consumption values for each type of deployed hardware compared against a proprietary monthly direct-from-hardware power collection process. The data collected from our hardware reports to our distributed data collection system, providing actual power used across hardware types installed in our network. Having a closer-to-reality power collection granularity directly from the hardware gives us a more detailed view of power consumed to calculate our emissions impact accurately. Akamai includes a portion of a given colocation facility's mechanical cooling, lighting and common area power since our data center deployments have a direct impact on how much power the facilities use. This is based on an average power usage effectiveness (PUE) spread across the entire footprint. Emission factors are sourced from internationally accepted organizations including:

• United States e-GRID factors from the EPA
• Australia Industry electricity emissions factors
• Canada ECCC National Inventory Report
• AIB European Residual Mix Factors
• International Energy Agency (IEA) Emissions Factors

The market-based method will be used to track and monitor Akamai's renewable energy purchases and usage. Please learn more about our Scope 2 boundary on our sustainability microsite: https://www.akamaisustainability.com/indicators/net_zero_emissions/operating_colocation_spaces/multi_operating_colocation_spaces

• United States e-GRID factors from the EPA 
• Australia Industry electricity emissions factors 
• Canada ECCC National Inventory Report 
• AIB European Residual Mix Factors 
• International Energy Agency (IEA) Emissions Factors 

Akamai owns and operates its network equipment while outsourcing data center operations to third-party vendors also known as colocation providers. Akamai's Scope 2 footprint encompasses the consumption of purchased energy at office and colocation operations. This includes Akamai's global platform IT equipment electricity usage, the subsequent power usage effectiveness (PUE) from the IT equipment, leased office electricity usage, and the energy used for heating Akamai's leased office space. Akamai has office locations in 20 countries that consist of leased buildings or floors not fully owned or operated by Akamai. From utility invoices, property management contracts, and the help of the Global Real Estate and Workplace Productivity team, Akamai maintains an inventory of our office electricity and fuel consumption. The inventory includes offices that are sub-leased to other tenants. Due to our colocation contract structures, Akamai cannot collect power data directly from the utility meters across our deployments. Instead, Akamai looks at the lab-tested maximum power consumption values for each type of deployed hardware compared against a proprietary monthly direct-from-hardware power collection process. The data collected from our hardware reports to our distributed data collection system, providing actual power used across hardware types installed in our network. Having a closer-to-reality power collection granularity directly from the hardware gives us a more detailed view of power consumed to calculate our emissions impact accurately. Akamai includes a portion of a given colocation facility's mechanical cooling, lighting and common area power since our data center deployments have a direct impact on how much power the facilities use. This is based on an average power usage effectiveness (PUE) spread across the entire footprint. Emission factors are sourced from internationally accepted organizations including:

• United States e-GRID factors from the EPA
• Australia Industry electricity emissions factors
• Canada ECCC National Inventory Report
• AIB European Residual Mix Factors
• International Energy Agency (IEA) Emissions Factors

The market-based method will be used to track and monitor Akamai's renewable energy purchases and usage. Please learn more about our Scope 2 boundary on our sustainability microsite: https://www.akamaisustainability.com/indicators/net_zero_emissions/operating_colocation_spaces/multi_operating_colocation_spaces

Akamai owns and operates its network equipment while outsourcing data center operations to third-party vendors also known as colocation providers. Akamai's Scope 2 footprint encompasses the consumption of purchased energy at office and colocation operations. This includes Akamai's global platform IT equipment electricity usage, the subsequent power usage effectiveness (PUE) from the IT equipment, leased office electricity usage, and the energy used for heating Akamai's leased office space. Akamai has office locations in 20 countries that consist of leased buildings or floors not fully owned or operated by Akamai. From utility invoices, property management contracts, and the help of the Global Real Estate and Workplace Productivity team, Akamai maintains an inventory of our office electricity and fuel consumption. The inventory includes offices that are sub-leased to other tenants. Due to our colocation contract structures, Akamai cannot collect power data directly from the utility meters across our deployments. Instead, Akamai looks at the lab-tested maximum power consumption values for each type of deployed hardware compared against a proprietary monthly direct-from-hardware power collection process. The data collected from our hardware reports to our distributed data collection system, providing actual power used across hardware types installed in our network. Having a closer-to-reality power collection granularity directly from the hardware gives us a more detailed view of power consumed to calculate our emissions impact accurately. Akamai includes a portion of a given colocation facility's mechanical cooling, lighting and common area power since our data center deployments have a direct impact on how much power the facilities use. This is based on an average power usage effectiveness (PUE) spread across the entire footprint. Emission factors are sourced from internationally accepted organizations including:

• United States e-GRID factors from the EPA
• Australia Industry electricity emissions factors
• Canada ECCC National Inventory Report
• AIB European Residual Mix Factors
• International Energy Agency (IEA) Emissions Factors

The market-based method will be used to track and monitor Akamai's renewable energy purchases and usage. Please learn more about our Scope 2 boundary on our sustainability microsite: https://www.akamaisustainability.com/indicators/net_zero_emissions/operating_colocation_spaces/multi_operating_colocation_spaces

Akamai owns and operates its network equipment while outsourcing data center operations to third-party vendors also known as colocation providers. Akamai's Scope 2 footprint encompasses the consumption of purchased energy at office and colocation operations. This includes Akamai's global platform IT equipment electricity usage, the subsequent power usage effectiveness (PUE) from the IT equipment, leased office electricity usage, and the energy used for heating Akamai's leased office space. Akamai has office locations in 20 countries that consist of leased buildings or floors not fully owned or operated by Akamai. From utility invoices, property management contracts, and the help of the Global Real Estate and Workplace Productivity team, Akamai maintains an inventory of our office electricity and fuel consumption. The inventory includes offices that are sub-leased to other tenants. Due to our colocation contract structures, Akamai cannot collect power data directly from the utility meters across our deployments. Instead, Akamai looks at the lab-tested maximum power consumption values for each type of deployed hardware compared against a proprietary monthly direct-from-hardware power collection process. The data collected from our hardware reports to our distributed data collection system, providing actual power used across hardware types installed in our network. Having a closer-to-reality power collection granularity directly from the hardware gives us a more detailed view of power consumed to calculate our emissions impact accurately. Akamai includes a portion of a given colocation facility's mechanical cooling, lighting and common area power since our data center deployments have a direct impact on how much power the facilities use. This is based on an average power usage effectiveness (PUE) spread across the entire footprint. Emission factors are sourced from internationally accepted organizations including:

• United States e-GRID factors from the EPA
• Australia Industry electricity emissions factors
• Canada ECCC National Inventory Report
• AIB European Residual Mix Factors
• International Energy Agency (IEA) Emissions Factors

The market-based method will be used to track and monitor Akamai's renewable energy purchases and usage. Please learn more about our Scope 2 boundary on our sustainability microsite: https://www.akamaisustainability.com/indicators/net_zero_emissions/operating_colocation_spaces/multi_operating_colocation_spaces

Akamai owns and operates its network equipment while outsourcing data center operations to third-party vendors also known as colocation providers. Akamai's Scope 2 footprint encompasses the consumption of purchased energy at office and colocation operations. This includes Akamai's global platform IT equipment electricity usage, the subsequent power usage effectiveness (PUE) from the IT equipment, leased office electricity usage, and the energy used for heating Akamai's leased office space. Akamai has office locations in 20 countries that consist of leased buildings or floors not fully owned or operated by Akamai. From utility invoices, property management contracts, and the help of the Global Real Estate and Workplace Productivity team, Akamai maintains an inventory of our office electricity and fuel consumption. The inventory includes offices that are sub-leased to other tenants. Due to our colocation contract structures, Akamai cannot collect power data directly from the utility meters across our deployments. Instead, Akamai looks at the lab-tested maximum power consumption values for each type of deployed hardware compared against a proprietary monthly direct-from-hardware power collection process. The data collected from our hardware reports to our distributed data collection system, providing actual power used across hardware types installed in our network. Having a closer-to-reality power collection granularity directly from the hardware gives us a more detailed view of power consumed to calculate our emissions impact accurately. Akamai includes a portion of a given colocation facility's mechanical cooling, lighting and common area power since our data center deployments have a direct impact on how much power the facilities use. This is based on an average power usage effectiveness (PUE) spread across the entire footprint. Emission factors are sourced from internationally accepted organizations including:

• United States e-GRID factors from the EPA
• Australia Industry electricity emissions factors
• Canada ECCC National Inventory Report
• AIB European Residual Mix Factors
• International Energy Agency (IEA) Emissions Factors

The market-based method will be used to track and monitor Akamai's renewable energy purchases and usage. Please learn more about our Scope 2 boundary on our sustainability microsite: https://www.akamaisustainability.com/indicators/net_zero_emissions/operating_colocation_spaces/multi_operating_colocation_spaces