Melissa Farney

Melissa Farney is an award-winning data center industry leader who has spent 20 years marketing digital technologies and is a self-professed data center nerd. She holds degrees in Marketing, Economics, and Psychology from the University of Central Florida. Her work focuses on high-impact areas including AI deployment, energy innovation, infrastructure investments, and emerging trends in power and sustainability.

Melissa currently serves as Marketing Director for TECfusions, a global data center operator serving AI and HPC tenants with innovative and sustainable solutions. She is also the Editor at Large for Data Center Frontier, offering insights into the most pressing developments shaping the digital infrastructure industry. Lastly, she is an Ambassador for the Nomad Futurist Academy, a nonprofit organization that is working to build a free data center educational platform for K-12 students. Prior to this, she has held senior data center marketing or editorial roles with DC BLOX, Kohler, ABB, and Mission Critical Magazine.