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…
Rose Weinschenk
Rose is a Research Associate at Uptime Institute covering staffing and education in data centers. Her background includes psychology research, with a focus on ethics.
RWeinschenk@uptimeinstitute.com
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REPLAY | Uptime Institute 15th Annual Global Data Center Survey Results
DLC adoption remains slow and steady
Direct liquid cooling adoption remains slow, but rising rack densities and the cost of maintaining air cooling systems may drive change. Barriers to integration include a lack of industry standards and concerns about potential system failures.
Douglas
Donnellan
Andy
Lawrence
Daniel
Bizo
Dr. Owen
Rogers
Peter
Judge
Jacqueline
Davis
Max
Smolaks
Rose
Weinschenk
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.
REPLAY | Reliability Engineering: Applying data center operations principles to enhance team performance
Madeleine
Kudritzki
In this session, we explored how these principles of data center operations were applied to support, sustain, and enhance the skills of people supporting the infrastructure.
Cybersecurity and the cost of human error
John
O'Brien
Human error is an increasingly exploited weakness by cyberattackers, leading to data center security breaches and greater risk for enterprises and operators.
Error-proof emergency communications for facility teams
Tensions between team members of different ranks or departments can inhibit effective communication in a data center, putting uptime at risk. This can be avoided by adopting proven communication protocols from other mission-critical industries.
Annual outage analysis 2025
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.
Mentorships: practical strategies for retaining new employees
Data center owners and operators find it challenging to retain qualified staff. Research-backed strategies can provide solutions for building stronger mentorship programs and improved staff retention.
Sustainability requirements rise as climate risks intensify
Results from the Uptime Institute Sustainability and Climate Change Survey 2024 reveal how operators navigate climate change risks while expanding efforts to improve their environmental footprint.
Publicly reported outages see increase in deliberate attacks
Major and damaging publicly reported outages are increasingly likely to be due to a deliberate attack — whether cyber or physical, according to Uptime Intelligence public outage data for 2024.
Are data center workforce initiatives effective?
Data shows that cuts to workforce initiatives and mentorships had little effect on the proportion of new hires in 2024. Owners and operators can consider reassessing and restructuring these programs.
Deconstructing NIMBY: how to avoid planning conflicts
Understanding the principles of human behavior and how they relate to community engagement and siting strategies can reduce potential conflict between data centers and local residents
AI adds to rising demand for capacity
This report highlights some of the findings from the Uptime Institute Capacity Trends and Cloud Survey 2024. Findings offer insight into what is driving capacity expansion.
Cloud repatriation is overstated
This report highlights some of the findings from the Uptime Institute Capacity Trends and Cloud Survey 2024. In particular, this report offers an insight into what drives migration to and from the public cloud.
Extended reality offers new training capabilities
New augmented reality and virtual reality technologies can provide effective training capabilities for data center staff but are not yet a complete substitute for in-person training.
