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Climate Corps Projects
Akamai Technologies – Pranab Ranjan – 2012
Goals
Akamai Technologies, a cloud computing service provider, hired Pranab Ranjan to identify energy cost reduction opportunities and to assess currently operating energy efficiency initiatives in its datacenters. Akamai operates one of the world’s largest distributed cloud computing platforms, with more than 105,000 servers in 78 countries. These servers are hosted almost exclusively in third-party “colocation,” or multitenant, data centers.
Solutions
Ultimately Ranjan recommended educating colocation providers about efficiency measures and potential cost savings, incorporating efficiency metrics into Akamai’s colocation selection process and installing blanking panels.
Potential Impact
These steps could save Akamai as much as 10 percent of its total colocation costs.
At a glance
Industry: Internet, Software, Hardware and Technology Services
Project types:
- Commercial Energy Efficiency
Year: 2012
Location: San Diego, CA
About the fellow
Pranab Ranjan
Indiana University
Pranab Ranjan, a student at Indiana University, was hired as the 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellow at Akamai.
