Jabari Williams-George

Jabari Williams-George

Jabari is a former Senior Research Analyst for Uptime Intelligence. He provides critical analysis on a variety of topics relating to digital critical infrastructure, particularly in the areas of mechanical and electrical data center engineering. He has a decade of experience in oil and gas, and critical facility design and construction.

Latest Research

UPS component failures: what are the leading issues?

UPS systems are the number one root cause of significant and severe outages. Analysis of reliability data from data center management software provider Fulcrum Collaborations sheds more light on the prevalent UPS component failures.

Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2024

The 14th 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.

Keynote Reports 27 min read
 
Air cooling’s third wind

This report discusses recent innovations in air cooling, such as advanced evaporative cooling methods, AI-driven facility management and cutting-edge server heat sinks.

 
Is this air cooling’s last gasp?

Alongside continued developments in liquid cooling, there are reports of air-cooled data centers that achieve standout levels of efficiency. Uptime explores the factors that combine to enable exceptional efficiency in air cooling.

Capacity planning for liquid-cooled data centers

It is becoming a near certainty that many facility operators will use direct liquid cooling within a few years. This raises a number of engineering questions, one of which is how to size coolant distribution units.

 
Air-assisted direct liquid cooling: an overlooked option

Air-assisted direct liquid cooling systems offer trade-offs that make them attractive to operators looking to address server cooling and rack density challenges — and are relatively easy to install and maintain.