About Cloud Sustainability Watch
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.
Susannah Hill Speaks at WCS Talks in San Francisco on Monday, April 21st, 2025
The TED-style WCS Talks presented by Women in Cleantech and Sustainability takes place this year during San Francisco Climate Week on April 21, 2025.
Susannah’s topic will be “Is Your Organization’s Online Computing Making Climate Change Worse?”.
Our Panel Event at San Francisco Climate Week at 2pm on Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Join Susannah Hill and a panel of cloud sustainability speakers for our event “How Can IT Leaders Reduce the Environmental Impact of Cloud Computing, AI, and Data Centers?”
Thursday, April 24th at 2pm | Monument Event Space, 140 Ninth St, San Francisco, CA
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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