Douglas is a Research Analyst at Uptime Institute covering sustainability in data centers. His background includes environmental research and communications, with a strong focus on education.
ddonnellan@uptimeinstitute.com
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…
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.
Under the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), data centers designated as "critical" for their role in financial services will face direct regulatory oversight and new resiliency requirements.
Nearly one in three operators report that their organization performs AI training and inference in early 2025. Although most operators plan to support AI in the future, current infrastructure strategies offer insight into how future deployments may…
Most data center organizations conduct climate change/ weather-related resiliency assessments in 2025 â even if it is not a formal requirement. Additionally, many enterprises demand these assessments from their cloud and colocation service…
Scalability and cost efficiency are the top reasons enterprises migrate to the cloud, but scalability issues due to application design flaws can lead to spiralling costs - and some workload repatriation to on-premises facilities
Capacities continue to grow for both enterprises and colocation providers, with colocation companies expanding more rapidly. Growth in general-purpose IT remains the single greatest driver of rising data center demand overall, but the need to…
The main reason enterprises are repatriating workloads from the cloud to their own data centers is due to spiraling costs. However, most enterprises are continuing to use several public clouds alongside on-premises facilities in a hybrid IT strategy…
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…
This summary of the 2025 predictions highlights the growing concerns and opportunities around AI for data centers.
Uptime Intelligence looks beyond the more obvious trends of 2025 and examines some of the latest developments and challenges shaping the data center industry.
Most data center operators plan to spend more in 2025 than the previous year. However, spending strategies vary widely between enterprises and colocation providers, and each faces its own risks from supply chain issues. Results from the Uptime…
