Akamai Technologies, the world’s largest cloud delivery platform, recently invested in an 80 megawatt wind farm in Texas. This investment is designed to match the company’s aggregated energy load in Texas. The project is Seymour Hills Wind Farm, developed by Infinity Renewables and expected to come online in 2018. This is the latest chapter in Akamai’s long-term approach to decarbonizing their operations. 3Degrees (originally Origin Climate) has been working with Akamai since 2015 to build and implement a renewable energy strategy. Laying the foundation Our first project together laid the foundation when we worked with Akamai to analyze their worldwide energy use. Akamai’s energy use is not large or concentrated, but is rather small and distributed throughout outsourced d

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