Concerns over rising electricity costs and environmental impact are driving local opposition to new data center projects in the US, prompting a growing number of cancellations.
Operators are proposing behind-the-meter power systems to accelerate the buildout of new AI data center infrastructure. Executing this strategy requires regulatory changes in many jurisdictions and new data center design approaches.
Growing workload demand continued to drive capacity growth in 2025. Results from the Uptime Institute Service Providers and Capacity Survey 2025 offer an insight into trends in capacity growth and the adoption of hybrid strategies.
Digital twins and DCIM: why data quality must come first
Resiliency will be re-examined, but few will compromise
France sets strict PUE and WUE thresholds as tax incentive
Network Advisory: Current State of Digital Twins
Emerging life safety challenges in modern data centers
AI use policies and guardrails accelerate operations adoption, reduce risk
Rensa and the PreVent Air Intake Filtration System
Thoughts on "hot work."
Taking the pulse on data center RTO and equipment MTTR
The struggle between AI and net-zero is becoming visible
Why inference will become a ubiquitous IT workload
Musk's moonshot project faces astronomical challenges
Next-gen GPUs may not need chillers — but data centers do
Liquid cooling will not outgrow its high-density niche
Coolant distribution units can complicate commissioning
Ireland's new grid rules signal shift in data center roles
New power architectures to reshape data center design
Giant data center power plans reach extreme levels
EU power providers urged to protect grids from data centers
What cloud sovereignty really means
Supply chain exploits: the blind spots operators need to address
Microsoft’s Community-First Plan needs more work
AI automation moves from pilots to early production
Five data center predictions for 2026
