Full Name
Sean Farney
Job Title
VP, Data Centers
Company
Jones, Lang, LaSalle (JLL)
Speaker Bio
As Vice President of Data Center Strategy for the Americas, Sean helps clients operate more than 900 data centers sustainably and efficiently. Lately he’s helping customers tackle the electrical and mechanical challenges of designing, building, and operating AI facilities and the technical challenges of deploying GPU servers.
Prior roles, include Director of Data Center Marketing at Kohler, Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Edge data center startup Ubiquity Critical Environments, and data center manager for Microsoft’s 120MW Chicago facility.
Sean is a published author in the sustainability space, contributing to both Greener Data volumes 1 & 2. He also strives to embody sustainability personally; hunting, growing, or harvesting a majority of his food and burning deadfall to heat his home, earning him a county-leading Energy Star rating.
He holds a master’s degree in engineering from Northwestern University.
Prior roles, include Director of Data Center Marketing at Kohler, Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Edge data center startup Ubiquity Critical Environments, and data center manager for Microsoft’s 120MW Chicago facility.
Sean is a published author in the sustainability space, contributing to both Greener Data volumes 1 & 2. He also strives to embody sustainability personally; hunting, growing, or harvesting a majority of his food and burning deadfall to heat his home, earning him a county-leading Energy Star rating.
He holds a master’s degree in engineering from Northwestern University.
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