Uptime Intelligence looks beyond the more obvious trends of 2025 and identifies examines some of the latest developments and challenges shaping the data center industry.
This summary of the 2025 predictions highlights the growing concerns and opportunities around AI for data centers.
Power remains the top spending priority for most operators in 2025, but enterprises are set to increase IT hardware spending.
AI embraces liquid cooling, but enterprise IT is slow to follow
Immersion cooling evolves in response to IT power density
Why regulation on temperature can be counterproductive
Data center resource use will raise deep questions — and opposition
AI to trigger radical overhaul of data center electrification
Grid demand will require active participation from data centers
Hydrogen fuel cells: a niche option for standby power
UN body’s data center guidelines cause concern
Maximizing server efficiency is becoming more difficult
Are data centers on top of NIS 2 cyber compliance?
Addressing supply chain risk in data center cybersecurity
Cyber incidents are common — and often significant
Why AWS’s AI strategy is a sprint
Nvidia’s vision for data centers may be a false prophecy
Data center management software: optimizing the IT
Most AI models will be trained in the cloud
Why technology business management does more than FinOps
Hyperscale data center plans at unsustainable levels
