Susanna Kass

Operating Partner, Digital Gravity Infrastructure Partners

Susanna Kass was recognized by DCD for A Lifetime Achievement Award for Digital Infrastructure and she is a DCD Award judge. She is recognized of her design as a Global 100 Game Changer for AI Digital Infrastructure, a Climate 50 Trailblazer, and is ranked 1st in the Top 10 Women in Data Centers in the U.S.(2026-2023), and in the Top 10 Global Data Centers worldwide (2026-2024) and is one of the Top 10 Data Center Influencers on LinkedIn (2026-2021). For over 30 years, Susanna led more than 4.8 gigawatts of clean energy data center projects across 20 countries as a clean energy inventor and global Data Center operations executive. Susanna is an inventor holding patents and is featured in publications on Amazon Press as a Best-Selling Author and in Times, WSJ, Forbes, Inc. CIO, TEDx, and Data Center magazines. She led new ventures to billions from the ground up in her role as COO at eBay International, General Manager of HP Asia Pacific Data Center Operation, VP of Global Data Center Business Operations at Sun Microsystems/Oracle, Head of Innovation and Development at NextEra Energy, EVP Sustainability and Development at Baselayer I/O with Fortune 500 clients: Goldman Sachs, Citi, BofA, Walmart, GE, hyperscale cloud content providers AWS, Google, Meta-Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Akamai, with numerous electric utilities.

Susanna is a Data Center Advisor to UNSDG-EP, an Energy Fellow and lecturer at Stanford University, and a Board Member of Stanford University Graduate School of Business Women’s Circle. Susanna is currently an Operating Partner at Digital Gravity Infrastructure Partner, Senior Advisor to AI Infra funds, a co-founder at InfraPrime℠, a Net Zero Switzerland startup funded by The European Union for Clean Energy Transition. Her Net Zero designs in AI Factory deliver code freeze of reference architecture deployments to live production in 90 days with net-positive results towards the transition to a carbon-free future and concurrently greening the grids with net energy generation to scale the growth of accelerated computing; her vision is to promote human safety, alleviate poverty, and advance sustainability environmental stewardship for the Digital Infrastructure sector.