Susanna Kass is listed at MSN 2025 Top 5 Inspiration Women, ranks 5th at 2025 Top 10 Data Centre Global leaders (along with AMD, AWS, Nvidia, DRT CEO), ranks 1st at Top 10 Women in Data Center in USA and recipient of Top 10 Data Center Influencers by DataCentre World and at Linked In and Kass was recognized as Most Admired Women in Data Centre in the world based on the impact results of her leading 4.3+ Gigawatt of Clean Energy Data Centre projects with hyperscaler clients; Google, Microsoft, Meta Facebook, AWS, Equinix, Walmart, Goldman Sachs, John Hopkins and Stanford University to achieve Carbon Neutrality goals across 19 countries. Kass is listed in Datacloud’s 2025 Power 50 as one of the top 50 global leaders shaping the Digital Infrastructure future. Kass has over 33 years of global data centre operational experience, and concurrently, 18 years in clean energy design as an inventor holding numerous patents and featured in publications on Amazon Press Best Selling Author and in WSJ, Forbes, MSN, Inc. CIO, TEDx, and Data Centre magazines. Kass managed Fortune 500 Enterprise organisations of 7000+ people globally, she led new ventures to $billions from the ground up in her role as COO at eBay International, General Manager of HP APAC Data Centre Operation, VP Global Data Centre Business Operations at Oracle/Sun, EVP, Head of Innovation & Corporate Development at NextEra Energy. Currently, Kass is an Operating Partner at Digital Gravity Infrastructure Partners, a senior advisor to Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Program.
Kass’s passion is to achieve a carbon-free economy. Kass works with the private and public sector, raising the ambition of the Clean Energy pledge and $billion Carbon Neutral infrastructure investments. Kass led environmentally positive data centre designs in her work; Absolute Zero, Net Zero Utility Data Centres for cloud and accelerated computing. Kass is an Energy Fellow at Stanford University, a co-founder at InfraPrime℠, a European Funded Net Zero Switzerland startup.
Kass was awarded with numerous industry accolades in the past three decades for her work in the public-private sector to scale data centre growth; she is the first woman to receive The Lifetime Data Centre Innovation Achievement Award by Data Centre Dynamics. Currently, she serves as the judge for the data centre industry, DCD, DataCloud, Platform Congress and is the founder and chair of the DataCloud Talent in Tech Initiative. She is a recipient of Most Admired Women Business Executive by Inc., Trailblazer by CIO Magazine, Top 10 Sustainability Leaders in the World of Data Centres, and Top 10 Women in Data Centre by DataCentre Magazine. Kass has been a member of Climate 50 for ten consecutive years, Top 50 Women in Tech in San Francisco and Outstanding Mothers by Women Most Admired. Kass is a board member for the Stanford University GSB Women’s Circle and, Energy Fellow at Stanford University. Kass is an IPCC research contributor and Distinguished Charles Rudd Lecturer and judge for the IEC Institute for the School of Engineering.
Kass resides in Silicon Valley, CA, USA. She received an Advanced Graduate School of Business degree from Stanford University, an MBA from Pepperdine University and a BS in Computer Science.
Kass received her advanced Business degree from Stanford University, an MBA from Pepperdine University, a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science.