While most companies are still busy printing ESG reports and patting themselves on the back for vague net-zero roadmaps, Akamai—the CDN, compute, and cybersecurity triathlete—is building what it claims is a location-aware emissions strategy that plugs into the beating heart of the power grid. The US heavyweight is deploying Integrated Locational Marginal Emissions (LMEs) data—via partners WattTime and Resurety—to measure actual carbon displacement per megawatt hour, by grid node. This is about consequential procurement, according to Akamai’s Mike Materra, Global Director of Corporate Sustainability, speaking during an online discussion hosted by non-profit group Greening of Streaming. Akamai claims to actively select clean energy projects that directly displace dirty energy at the point of use, which Faultline readers might recognize as…