Paul Carton

Paul Carton

Dr. Carton is currently Research Vice President at Uptime Institute, leading all survey-based research operations and analysis. Prior to Uptime, Paul co-founded and led ChangeWave Research, and has an extensive background in online survey research and the development of Internet research communities.

Latest Research

2025 Data Center Resiliency Survey [Results and Crosstab files]

Results from Uptime Institute's 2025 Data Center Resiliency Survey (n=970) focus on data center resiliency issues and the impact of outages on the data center sector globally.The attached data files below provide full results of the survey,…

2025 AI Infrastructure Survey [Results and Crosstab files]

Results from Uptime Institute's 2025 AI Infrastructure Survey (n=1,062) focus on the data center infrastructure currently used or being planned to use to host AI Training and AI Inference, as well as future industry outlooks on the usage of AI. The…

Data center staffing — an ongoing struggle

Attracting and retaining qualified data center staff has been a major industry challenge for years — and continues to cause substantial problems for operators worldwide. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Management and Operations Survey shows staffing and…