Staff shortages and recruitment challenges remain the key workforce challenges facing data center owners and operators in 2024. This report highlights some of the findings from the Uptime Institute Staffing and Recruitment Survey 2024.
New augmented reality and virtual reality technologies can provide effective training capabilities for data center staff but are not yet a complete substitute for in-person training.
Cybersecurity strategies often evolve organically: tools are added, requirements change, and the result is a lack of coherent structure. Cybersecurity professionals can benefit from adopting frameworks to organize these activities
Why regulation on temperature can be counterproductive
Should data centers sell their heat?
Cooling systems: balancing cost, energy and water use
Why didn’t data center operators notice the 2024 solar storms?
On-site natural gas: why some sites need it
Erratic power profiles of AI clusters: the root causes
Maximizing server efficiency is becoming more difficult
Netherlands enforces efficiency mandates
Critical national infrastructure status: what does it mean?
Developing data center cybersecurity policies and procedures
Weak security processes can increase impact of failures
Will legislation change how finance uses public cloud?
Understanding AI deployment methods and locations
What is the outlook for GPU cloud providers?
AI adoption in data centers: an insight into job displacement
Hyperscale data center plans at unsustainable levels
Record investment masks a related trend: rising costs
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2024: regional view
