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Nicola Peill-Moelter

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As senior director of environmental sustainability, Nicola leads Akamai’s global sustainability program, creating the vision, setting strategy, and overseeing execution. She’s excited by the possibilities enabled by rapid innovations in energy, transportation and IoT. Her responsibilities span the gamut of energy and greenhouse gas management and reporting; renewable energy and energy efficiency; electronic-waste management; and employee and stakeholder engagement. A core tenant of her strategy is uncovering the business drivers for sustainability. Nicola's favorite activity is collaborating with engineers innovating around the energy efficiency, productivity and reducing carbon emissions of Akamai’s global Intelligent Cloud Platform, which represents 90 percent of Akamai’s environmental impact.

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Akamai will power internet with sun and wind

May 11, 2016

By Nicola Peill-Moelter
Akamai's director of sustainability debuts a pledge to slash emissions in half by 2020.
  • Renewable Energy
  • Finance
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Will a cost on carbon darken the cloud?

February 6, 2014

By Nicola Peill-Moelter

Akamai's director of sustainability explores whether a fee on carbon will affect Internet-intensive companies.

  • Energy & Climate
  • Cloud Computing
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How smart batteries create efficient data centers

January 15, 2013

By Nicola Peill-Moelter

Akamai looks into powering data centers with batteries to help reduce energy costs during peak demand periods.

  • Data Centers
  • Energy Efficiency
  • VERGE
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Cool like Facebook: Where does free cooling make sense?

April 17, 2012

By Nicola Peill-Moelter

Air conditioners may soon be a thing of the past, as major companies like Facebook, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) make the switch from mechanical cooling to outside air cooling to regulate the temperature of their IT equipment.

  • Clean Tech
  • Data Centers
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How tracking its carbon footprint saved Akamai cash

March 1, 2012

By Nicola Peill-Moelter

By measuring its carbon footprint, Akamai found several ways to save money -- and better manage its business.

  • Energy & Climate
  • Emissions Reduction
  • Energy Efficiency

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