Even as meeting the demands of AI infrastructure intensifies, preventing outages remains a top priority for data center operators — yet failures still occur. This report analyzes recent Uptime data on outages — their causes, costs and consequences.

Policymakers across the US are reassessing tax incentives for data center operators, reflecting shifting priorities around infrastructure, costs and community impacts.

Net-zero commitments are becoming more common across the data center industry, but power demand growth and stricter carbon accounting rules are reshaping expectations.

In this webinar and report, Uptime Intelligence looks beyond the more obvious trends of 2026 and examines some of the latest developments and challenges shaping the industry. AI is transforming data center strategies, but its impact remains uneven…

Uptime Intelligence looks beyond the more obvious trends of 2026 and examines some of the latest developments and challenges shaping the data center industry.

The Uptime Intelligence research agenda includes a list of published and planned data center research reports for 2026, focusing on: AI workloads, power, cooling, sustainability, resiliency, operations, staffing, and security.

Operators in both enterprise and colocation segments anticipate larger budgets in 2026. While capacity expansion remains the primary driver of overall planned spending, investment priorities for supporting growth differ between the two groups. Year…

Data center operators reported fewer supply chain disruptions in 2025 than at any point in the past 5 years, although the level of impact still varies by region and market segment. Many continue to face delays in accessing critical equipment or…

This report analyzes facility-level PUE data from the Global Data Center Survey 2025, highlighting differences by region, facility size and age. It assesses the vulnerability of the industry to PUE minimum performance standards.

The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey, now in its 15th year, is the most comprehensive and longest-running study of its kind.This report highlights some of the results from vendor, consultant and product supplier respondents and provides…

The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey, now in its 15th year, is the most comprehensive and longest-running study of its kind. This report provides a regional view of the results and highlights the different challenges and strategies of…

The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey, now in its 15th year, is the most comprehensive and longest-running study of its kind. The findings in this report highlight the practices and experiences of data center owners and operators in the…

The 15th edition of the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey highlights the experiences and strategies of data center owners and operators in the areas of resiliency, sustainability, efficiency, staffing, cloud and AI.

AI training can strain power distribution systems and shorten hardware life - especially in data centers not built for dynamic workloads. Many operators may be underestimating these risks during design and capacity planning.

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…