Susanna Kass

Energy Fellow, Stanford University | Co-Founder, InfraPrime | Data Center Advisor, UNSDG Program and InfraPrime

Susanna Kass ranks 4th in the Top 10 Women in Data Center by Data Centre Magazine. Inc Magazine recognized Susanna Kass as Top 10 Most Inspiring Leaders to follow in 2023 because of her impactful results in championing Climate Action for the global Data Center industry. Susanna is Top 10 data center influencers to follow on LinkedIn, a member of Climate 50 for five consecutive years, an Energy Fellow and a board member to the Stanford University Graduate Management Board (GMB) Women’s Circle leading Impact, Analysis and Reporting and Board Chair for Broadgroup Talent in Tech Initiative.

Susanna was awarded the top 50 Women in San Francisco, Outstanding Mothers in 2022 by Women Most Admired. Kass is a Member of 2021 Power100 and a member of Climate 50, top most influential Climate Change leaders to reduce carbon footprint, a recognition based on the global results of her Energy projects in the Energy and Data Center sectors and the carrier industry. Kass is the Data Center Advisor on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In this role, she represents the UN Sustainable Development team by engaging private sector leadership, academic researchers, and public institutions to jointly promote sustainable energy within the international Data Center industry. Through mutually beneficial collaboration, goal setting, speaking engagements, and projects further the vision of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Kass is one of the researchers for The Clean Energy For Biden, her focus is to provide scientific based evidence for America to revamp Carbon Neutral infrastructure and to support the new enactment to the Paris Agreement 

Kass is an Energy Fellow, lecturer at Stanford University, Cornell University, DTU,  National University of Singapore. She works with the researchers at IPCC, the Sustainability Institute at UCLA, UC Berkeley, MIT, Cornell University, Columbia University and Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.