Andy
Lawrence
Data center owners are as committed to Tier III and Tier IV designs as ever, but more will be required to share power, adding complexity and possibly risk.
Andy Lawrence
Andy is a founding member and the Executive Director of Research for Uptime Institute Intelligence, which analyzes and explains trends shaping the critical infrastructure industry. He has extensive experience analyzing developments in IT, emerging technologies, data centers and infrastructure, and advising companies on technical and business strategies.
alawrence@uptimeinstitute.com
Latest Research
OPINION | Data centers weather grid failures — but utilities want change
REPLAY | Annual Data Center Outage Analysis 2025
Douglas
Donnellan
Chris
Brown
Owen
Rogers
Preventing outages continues to be a central focus for data center owners and operators. While infrastructure design and resiliency frameworks have improved in many cases, the complexity of modern architectures continues to present new risks that…
Annual outage analysis 2025
Rose
Weinschenk
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.
REPLAY | Calculating Data Center Work Capacity: The EED and Beyond
Jay
Dietrich
The data center industry has struggled to design and implement a meaningful measurement of deployed and utilized server work capacity and storage product terabyte capacity. Recent publications by The Green Grid and Uptime Institute offer the tools…
OPINION | For a grid connection, form a disorderly line
Data center builders who need power must navigate changing rules, unpredictable demands — and be prepared to trade.
REPLAY | Uptime Intelligence Client Webinar: Cooling limitations for AI data centers
Daniel
Bizo
Jacqueline
Davis
Tomas
Rahkonen
Muhammad Naveed
Saeed
How far can we go with air? Uptime experts discuss and answer questions on cooling strategies and debate the challenges and trade-offs with efficiency and costs.Please watch this latest entry in the Uptime Intelligence Client Webinar series. The…
REPLAY | Strategies for Powering Data Centers with Carbon Free Power
Rapidly increasing electricity demand requires new generation capacity to power new data centers. What are some of the new, innovative power generation technology and procurement options being developed to meet capacity growth and what are their…
The DeepSeek paradox: more efficiency, more infrastructure?
Max
Smolaks
The emergence of the Chinese DeepSeek LLM has raised many questions. In this analysis, Uptime Intelligence considers some of the implications for all those primarily concerned with the deployment of AI infrastructure.
REPLAY | Five Data Center Predictions for 2025
Uptime Intelligence surveys the data center industry landscape to look deeper at what can actually happen in 2025 and beyond based on the latest trends and developments. The stronghold that AI has on the industry is a constant discussion - but how…
Five data center predictions for 2025
Peter
Judge
Uptime Intelligence looks beyond the more obvious trends of 2025 and examines some of the latest developments and challenges shaping the data center industry.
Grid demand will require active participation from data centers
Power grids are under stress, struggling to meet future demand and increasingly prone to outages. More utilities will expect data centers to contribute power — and be more flexible in their use of power.
REPLAY | IT Consolidation: A critical data center sustainability initiative
As the industry power demand grows, IT operators must focus on both IT infrastructure power demand and supply. A portion of the required power growth can be eliminated through better utilization of existing and new IT infrastructure and software…
AI: enterprises are active — but cautious
Enterprises have much enthusiasm for AI, interviews and workshops by Uptime Intelligence suggest, but this is tempered by caution. Most hope to avoid disruptive, expensive or careless investments.
Record investment masks a related trend: rising costs
Data center operating and capital costs have been rising strongly in recent years — and will almost certainly continue to do so. Sooner or later, those in the IT supply chain will need to deliver their backers a return on investment.
REPLAY | Does data center growth have to come at the cost of sustainability?
The acceleration of data center energy consumption growth projections appears to threaten sustainability objectives. Instead, it demands a reinvigoration of efforts to improve the energy efficiency of the IT infrastructure through better system…
