Mark Crofton

Head of Field Enablement @ SAP. I train B2B sales execs. Sales, Enterprise Software, Latam & Florida tech. former @McKinsey @Tufts @Columbia #Miami Floridian

[Varun Sivaram @vsiv]

🦄 Delighted to announce @EmeraldAI_'s $150 million Series A round, valuing us at more than $1 billion with over $220 million raised to date! Read more in The New York Times: https://t.co/OV4LS4qaAO

📢Read our full announcement: https://t.co/ObzlZmA3Ra

📺Watch our launch on CNBC Squawk Box: https://t.co/CSlBvMjLDO

🔗And dive deeper at our website: https://t.co/SAeLNvDR9M

⚡Emerald AI is transforming AI data centers into flexible grid allies to unlock 100+GW of power for AI while protecting energy affordability and reliability for local communities. After 18 months of demonstrations—across five data centers all over the world—we've entered our commercial scaling phase and are now deployed at multi-MW, full data center scale with customers spanning the world's biggest AI pioneers, global data center platforms, and leading power utilities. We're proud to collaborate with @NVIDIA, @Digitalrealty, @EPRINews, and others to launch the world's first power-flexible AI Factory—roughly 100MW in Manassas, Virginia—later this year, creating the blueprint for a new generation of flexible DSX AI infrastructure that will be good citizens to power grids and local communities. We're also honored to partner with @SantaClaraPower on the nation's first Flexible Load Interconnection Program (FLIP) to provide additional power capacity to flexible AI data centers.

🤝We are so grateful to our incredible consortium of investors, co-led by @EnergizeCapital and @DCVC, as well as to the extraordinary syndicate of leading global financial and strategic investors. Emerald now counts 12 Fortune 500 Global companies as our investors. Many thanks to Series A investors including @NVIDIA, @SamsungVentures, @aramcoventures, @Siemens, @SalesforceVC, @GEVernova, @RWE_AG, @jeraventures, @ADI_News Ventures, @SabanciHolding, In-Q-Tel, @radicalvcfund, @EnergyImpact_, @lowercarbon, Marunouchi Innovation Partners, @EmCollective, @johndoerr, The Olayan Group, The Temerty Group, @EarthshotVC, @collectiveGBL, General Catalyst's scout fund, and others.

🚀This funding will be instrumental as we rapidly scale commercially across the United States and around the world. Our vision is simple: secure larger and faster power connections for AI while making sure AI gives back to the communities that host it. At Emerald AI, we believe that the biggest new user of electricity—AI data centers—can also be the grid's greatest ally, and a boon for local communities by protecting energy affordability and reliability. Thank you to all of our customers, partners, investors, and our incredible team (grateful to the leadership team pictured below Ayse Coskun Mansi Shah Aroon Vijaykar Shayan Sengupta as well as to the whole fantastic team)—this has already been the journey of a lifetime, and we're just getting started

[DRmetwatch @DRmetwatch]

Hurricane Andrew’s approach to South Florida covering August 23-24, 1992, as seen from the WSR-57 radar at Coral Gables FL. From 34 years ago.

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

Waymos are much safer, cleaner, and more efficient than regular cars.

And because of politics—and progressives blocking progress—you can’t get them in most blue states. By Roge Karma. https://t.co/Adq9BDyiSH

[Mark Crofton @MarkCrofton]

@villi So sorry to hear this.

[Mark Crofton @MarkCrofton]

@bunsen Plus sick days.

[Mark Crofton @MarkCrofton]

Everyone in Florida should read Bubble in the Sun

[Rob Wile @rjwile]

arguably helped lead to the Great Depression

[NWS Miami @NWSMiami]

Did you hear the news? Miami reached 100°F this afternoon for only the second time since 1895. This ties the all-time high temperature record last reached in 1942!🥵

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Temperatures hit as high as 43°C (109°F) in France today as the fifth major heatwave of the year has arrived in Europe. Hundreds of cities and towns across the continent experienced their hottest August temperatures ever recorded.

This is getting ludicrous.

[Orange County Sheriff's Office @OrangeCoSheriff]

We hear the comments about left lane drivers. Most people don’t realize that OCSO deputies enforce Florida’s Left Lane Law. During stops like these, deputies explain why cruising in the left lane is not just frustrating for other drivers - but dangerous for everyone. The left lane is for passing. Drivers who impede traffic can and do receive citations.

[Peter Helm 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 @HelmPeter]

200km, 30 Passagiere mit je 25kg Gepäck, rein elektrisch!
30 Minuten Ladezeit, entspricht der turn around Zeit.
Rund 3€ Stromkosten pro Passagier!

Welcome to the future!

[Florida Tropics @FloridaTropics1]

Miami has broken the high temperature record for today, which was 117 years old!

[Mark Crofton @MarkCrofton]

Hiring #SDR #BDR in Mexico City. Sales Development Associate. #jobs #sales #sustainability

https://t.co/xiViMH0Gle

[Clay Dumas @claydumas]

Venture investors will be straining so hard to avoid saying they invest in cl**ate while making announcements like “we at Vibes Fund are thrilled to announce our latest investment in a prime contractor for keeping the planet livable.”

[Columbia Climate School @columbiaclimate]

🔥 New online professional learning course! Science of Climate Change: Beyond the Basics with @columbiaclimate professor Radley Horton

Understand climate science, extreme risks, and impacts to make better decisions in a changing world . ➡️ @columbiaplus: https://t.co/vRnQGP85mr

[Mark Crofton @MarkCrofton]

It almost never stops anymore

[Bill Clerico @billclerico]

Wildfire season has really only just begun

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

[Columbia Climate School @columbiaclimate]

New York State has joined a growing movement to make climate education a required part of K-12 learning, following years of student demand and widespread support from teachers and parents. Learn more via State of the Planet: https://t.co/GaT1d5Jbla

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

"Every great enterprise sales exec can give you 2 customer references.

From customers that were so happy their big, top problem was solved by that vendor and that sales rep.

Ask your sales hires for customer references, too."

[Bill Clerico @billclerico]

Climate change is out of vogue at the moment but it isn't going away. We're having a disaster-filled summer but this is just the warm up lap.

Resilience is essential to existence and the biggest opportunity of the two decades, perhaps larger than AI.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

And the historically hottest regions of Europe have the highest penetration of air conditioning, just as one would expect.