Susanna Kass is Stanford GMB Board member and Energy fellow, senior Data Center advisor to UN SDG-EP, Operating Partner for Digital Gravity Infrastructure Partner, and Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners. She is recognized as one of the 2026 MSN Top 5 Inspiration Women, a Forbes Trailblazer, a Global 100 AI Infrastructure Game Changer, and a DataCloud Global Power 50. Kass ranks 5th among the 2025 Top 10 Data Centre Global leaders (alongside CEOs from AMD, AWS, Nvidia, and DRT), ranks 1st among the Top 10 Women in Data Center in the USA, and is a recipient of Top 10 Data Center Influencers award by Data Centre World and LinkedIn for 2026-2023. Kass was recently recognized as an Eminent 40 Pioneer and one of the Most Admired Women in Data Centre globally for shaping the Digital Infrastructure future. This recognition is based on the impact of her leading 4.8+ Gigawatt of Clean Energy Data Centre operating projects with hyperscaler clients—including Google, Microsoft, Meta Facebook, AWS, Equinix, Walmart, Goldman Sachs, John Hopkins and Stanford University—to achieve Carbon Neutrality goals across 21 countries.
Kass has over 33 years of global data center operational experience, and concurrently, 21 years in clean energy design as an AI scientist researcher holding numerous patents and being 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 organizations of 7000+ people globally. She led new ventures to $billions from the ground up in her roles as COO at eBay International, General Manager of HP APAC Data Centre Operation, VP Global Data Centre Business Operations at Oracle/Sun, and 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 sectors, raising the ambition of the Clean Energy pledge and $billion Carbon Neutral infrastructure investments. In her work, Kass led the design of the Community First AI Factory, which is environmentally positive and focuses on Absolute Zero AI and Net Zero Data Centers for AI Factory and Cloud Computing. Kass is a co-founder at InfraPrime℠, Net Zero Switzerland startup funded by European Clean Energy funds.
Kass was awarded with numerous industry accolades in the past three decades for her work in the public-private sector to scale data center growth; she is the first woman to receive The Lifetime Data Centre Innovation Achievement Award by Data Centre Dynamics. Currently and for the past 12 years, she serves as the judge for the data center industry, DCD, DataCloud Global Awards, TMT Finance Global Awards, Platform Congress. Kass is the co-founder and chair of the DataCloud Talent in Tech Initiative. Kass is an IPCC research contributor, AI Reference Architecture 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 from UC/San Diego State University.