Akamai’s latest ESG (environmental, social and governance) report offers a rare glimpse into the impact that acquisitions can have on the carbon emissions of an organization, following on from the CDN slinger’s purchase of cloud computing company Linode in early 2022. Paying $900 million for Linode, the deal was designed to provide a developer-friendly and massively distributed computing platform – going on to spawn the Akamai Connected Cloud in February 2023. While other cloud computing platform providers are pitching the most scalable and most reliable services, Akamai is jockeying for position as the world’s most distributed platform – positioning compute, storage, database, among other cloud services, closer to end users and to data centers. Shifting resources to closer to the…