In 2024, we made significant progress to scale our cloud computing business and provide new services and points of presence for our customers. As we forecasted, this build out increased our overall electricity consumption and emissions output. Despite this growth, we remain on track and dedicated to achieve net-zero emissions across our global data center and office footprint by 2030.

As sustainability is a multifaceted issue, we recognize various paths to achieving our objectives. As a founding member of the Emissions First Partnership, our goal is to accelerate grid decarbonization and maximize emissions reduction impacts while ensuring grid stability. We recognize that our journey to net-zero will not always be linear.  

As we scale our business, we remain aware of the environmental cost that comes with growth. We are more emissions-focused than ever and strive to provide stakeholders with a clear view of our impact and progress. This includes prioritizing emissionality¹, system-level engagement, and staying on course with our purpose-built strategy that emphasizes long-term, measurable progress, rather than relying on annual offsets, which may only reflect short-term adjustments without authentic emissions reduction. From the inception of the Akamai corporate sustainability program in 2009, we have remained aligned in pursuing our objectives with integrity and tenacity, and we will continue to do so as we move forward.

During 2024, we continued to invest in purchaser-caused² renewable energy projects in emissions-intense markets that help strengthen our renewable energy portfolio, contribute to our net-zero goal, drive positive impacts in surrounding communities and ecosystems, and directly support our growth in energy consumption. Recognizing the scale at which we operate and the need for system-wide efforts, we also leveraged our global positioning to engage in public policy advocacy efforts and collaborate within industry groups. 

We are constantly seeking new opportunities to meet the evolving needs of our global platform both presently and in the future. Through 2025, we plan to make further strides toward our objectives by procuring additional renewable energy from responsible sources globally, investing in projects that create and deliver new renewable energy, and implementing credible measures to mitigate and remove carbon emissions across our global platform.

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¹ Emissionality, a term coined by WattTime, is the strategy of identifying the best locations for new renewable energy and choosing projects that maximize beneficial climate impact as measured by their avoided emissions

² Purchaser-caused refers to the concept where a company’s purchase of renewable energy directly contributes to the creation of new renewable energy projects and the associated energy attribute certificates (EACs).