KC Mares
Focused on energy efficiency in data centers for over 20 years, with leadership over design, building and operating the lowest cost and most efficient data centers in over 20 countries. KC has led and developed solutions in data center site selection, development, design, operations and energy reductions for many data center owners, including most of the hyperscalers, tech companies and the largest providers, enterprises and government data center operators. He has led the design of over $10 billion of data centers, all with industry leading energy and cost efficiencies. He also recently led factory engineering and battery cell production engineering projects for Tesla.
KC recently led CPower Energy Management's solutions for large data centers to enhance and leverage energy solutions to data centers by enabling further emissions and energy use and cost while supporting our power grids to stay on during peak demand periods.
KC developed the 2,300 acre Reno Technology Park, now one of the largest data center campuses known with hundreds of MWs of on-site solar generation, and also the ECHO fiber cable, the first to directly connect the US and Singapore as well as several other countries.
For several years, KC chaired the Silicon Valley Leadership Group's Data Center Energy Efficiency demonstration program and summits, and before that also chaired the SVLG Energy Committee before, during and out of the California energy crisis, in which KC participated in weekly meetings with the Governor and his staff, CEC and CPUC commissioners and others creating long-term clean energy solutions for California.
KC led Yahoo!’s worldwide data center strategy, development and construction, while it was the largest Internet property, leading the construction of over $1 billion of energy efficient data centers and data center site selections and procurements around the globe for at the time the largest Internet property.
His work has earned numerous awards, including twice EnergyStar Partner of the Year and Congressional recognitions, and he continues to work on ways to grow and learn, and build great teams and projects that affect positive progress to increase energy efficiency and options while reducing costs and emissions.
