Noa Catharina is Co-Founder of Scalar, a data center infrastructure company building sustainable solutions for AI and advanced computing.
She focuses on a problem the industry tends to skip over: how to actually build high-performance infrastructure without wrecking the planet in the process.
Noa specializes in sovereign AI infrastructure, working with nations and enterprises to build computing capacity that doesn't compromise on data sovereignty or sustainability.
Her technical background spans advanced computing architectures, distributed machine learning systems, and blockchain backed platforms. She helps organizations make infrastructure decisions that account for both performance requirements and long-term environmental realities.
Her core argument is simple: infrastructure choices matter. The data centers powering AI involve real decisions about energy consumption, cooling systems, and resource allocation. These aren't afterthoughts, they shape what's actually possible to build and at what cost. She works to integrate these considerations into infrastructure planning from the start.
Based between Amsterdam and the US, Noa has published on smart city development and sustainable infrastructure, pushing for technology systems that account for both capability and consequence.
