About
Speaking Appearances
Susannah Hill is a thought leader in mitigating the environmental impact of cloud computing, GenAI, and data centers. She inspires audiences to take action. Recent appearances include a roundtable at VERGE24 “Is Your Climate Organization’s Computing Worsening Climate Change?”, the Climatebase webinar “Sustainability and AI”, and a discussion panel for the tech nonprofit The Users viewable on the “Climate TBD” podcast. Reach out to learn more by emailing her at susannah[at]cloud.sustainability.watch.
Our Panel Event at San Francisco Climate Week at 2pm on Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Join us for an informative panel discussion about sustainable computing: “Your Organization’s Computing Infrastructure Has Environmental Impacts”
Thursday, April 24th at 2pm | Monument Event Space, 140 Ninth St, San Francisco, CA
Nolwenn Godard, Founder of Carbon 2C, and MC at Green IO New York
Pascal Joly, Sustainability Consultant at IT Climate Ed, and Director of Partnerships at Ribbit Network
Allegra Reister, Climate Partnerships, Climate Operations, Google, and Advisor at GoPowerEV
Ryan Sholin, Advocacy Lead at Electricity Maps, and Founder, Overt Impact
About our team
The mission of Cloud Sustainability Watch™ is to reduce the environmental impact of cloud computing, GenAI, and data centers. Our goal is to enable IT decisions makers to make sustainability a priority equal to reliability and speed. We do it by assembling tools and information they can find easily. We also share our research about the problem and encourage anyone who works online to ask the IT department of their employers about the sustainability of applications and cloud usage. Please spread the word.
About Our Sustainability
The average web page emits 16.5 pounds of carbon from 1,000 hits — the same amount as burning 8 pounds of coal. But cloud.sustainability.watch runs on 100% solar power and a page hit on our site emits 82% less carbon.
We wish it were zero. But there are emissions from data networking to our users and from our users’ devices, and there is embodied carbon in all equipment.
Our low-impact hosting provider is Viridio, a B Corp public benefit corporation directly connected to solar power.
About Our Community
Cloud Sustainability Watch™ began as our project as Climatebase Fellows. Climatebase is a leading sustainability career accelerator and learning organization that is located in San Francisco.
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