KARA HURST
TECH & AI
KARA HURST
TITLE: VP OF WORLDWIDE SUSTAINABILITY
COMPANY: AMAZON
INDUSTRY: E-COMMERCE / CLOUD COMPUTING
As VP of Worldwide Sustainability at Amazon, Kara leads the company’ s ambitious Climate Pledge commitment, driving initiatives across renewable energy and sustainable operations to achieve net-zero carbon by 2040. of liquid cooling,” he says.“ But it’ s liquid cooling 2.0 right now because I don’ t see that being deployed at scale.”
The human element: A crisis in skills and staffing Beyond hardware, the data centre industry faces a critical shortage of people. An estimated 300,000 new skilled workers are needed by the end of this year to operate the world’ s data centres. For companies like Unisys, whose expertise lies in deploying and managing large, skilled workforces,