The prevention of outages has always been a top priority for data center owners and operators — but outages do occur. This report analyzes recent Uptime Institute data on IT and data center outages: their causes, costs and consequences.
Uptime Institute believes that data center operators should optimize facility-level sustainability performance before addressing ecosystem issues. A clear definition of data center sustainability is needed to enable this approach.
IT operators lack a credible work-per-energy metric to report overall IT and facilities system efficiency. Developments in reporting IT equipment work capacities enable the industry to begin experimenting with this metric.
Uncertainty and doubt as US changes GPU export rules again
Network advisory: Developing operational procedures
OPINION | Data centers weather grid failures — but utilities want change
REPLAY | Annual Data Center Outage Analysis 2025
REPLAY | European Cybersecurity Regulation and its Impact on Digital Infrastructures
RECAP | Uptime Network EMEA Spring Conference 2025, Amsterdam
Benchmarking - last call for EUL, ramping up "next'
AI in Data Center Operations
How does Delta’s UPS quality compare to established suppliers?
Water is local: generalities do not apply
Density choices for AI training are increasingly complex
AI load and chiller systems: key considerations
Are data centers to blame for power quality issues?
Small modular reactors: building critical mass
The DeepSeek paradox: more efficiency, more infrastructure?
In the US, data center pushback is all about power
Digital twins: reshaping AI infrastructure planning
OPINION | For a grid connection, form a disorderly line
Cloud: when high availability hurts sustainability
On-premises clouds: not so plane and simple
Data center AI strategies are mixed in early 2025
DeepSeek bans: implications for data centers
Hardware for AI: options and directions
GPU utilization is a confusing metric
The booming data center sector grapples with tariff chaos
