Dr. Tomas Rahkonen

Dr. Tomas Rahkonen

Dr. Rahkonen is the Research Director of Distributed Data Centers at Uptime Institute. Rahkonen has spent the last 25 years in positions within the telecommunications, mobile communications, and data center sectors globally, and most recently served as the CTO of Flexenclosure, where he managed the design and delivery of prefab data centers across four continents.

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Maturity model for sustainability downplays site-level resiliency

Sometime after 2026, the EU is expected to adopt an upcoming version of CENELEC’s TS 50600-5-1 Maturity Model to assess data center sustainability. The current technical specification has some controversial elements.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
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Increased requirements for Scope 3 reporting and energy certificates

This report looks at the leading frameworks for carbon reporting with regards to energy attribute certificates (EACs) and Scope 3, including their sector-specific guidance (if any) for data centers.

Briefing Reports 24 min read
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Critical role for Europe’s data center code of conduct

The EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency started out as a voluntary initiative but is increasingly being applied as a standard. This report describes the code’s technical contents and assessment process.

Briefing Reports 20 min read
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Deployment models at the edge

Bringing certain IT workloads closer to users and connected devices helps organizations to manage data growth, user experience and expansion. This report looks at the deployment models for data center facilities and IT at the edge.

Briefing Reports 30 min read
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Efficient servers hold the key to energy efficient data centers

Improving data center infrastructure energy efficiency is vital in helping organizations contain costs and carbon emissions that result from IT growth. This report compares seven projects using a data- and experience-based model.

Briefing Reports 33 min read
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Edge plays a major role in hybrid strategies

Key findings from the Uptime Institute Edge Data Center Survey 2023 reveal how edge is becoming more important in hybrid infrastructure strategies.

Data Reports 9 min read
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EU data center sustainability laws begin to take shape

The EU is introducing a raft of new financial and technical sustainability laws in the coming years. These laws will increase the regulatory reporting burden on owners, operators and users of European data centers.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
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Webinar: Transactions per megawatt-hour: Keys to increasing data center efficiency

IT efficiency can offer the keys to unlocking a more sustainable, efficient, and reliable data center. This session provides quantified examples of improvements in business and environmental performance.

On-Demand Webinars 60 min
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Server energy efficiency: five key insights

This report analyzes server data from The Green Grid’s Server Efficiency Rating Tool (SERT) database and provides quantitative guidance to help enterprises estimate their server energy saving potential.

Briefing Reports 9 min read
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Strategic siting: colos in central business districts

Siting colocation data centers in central business districts can have real advantages. So why does it happen so rarely? This report, based on interviews with providers, examines the operational challenges, and solutions for overcoming them.

Briefing Reports 24 min read
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Supply problems favor standardization and scale

The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed supply chains globally, resulting in higher prices and increased delivery times for many components. Shortages and delays are likely to persist into 2022 and beyond as demand for IT, and for new data center…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
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Edge data centers: A guide to suppliers

Edge computing is expected to require large numbers of small-scale data centers located close to their end-users. This report profiles suppliers of different types of small-scale edge facilities and their products and services.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
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Five data center predictions for 2022

In this report, Uptime Institute Intelligence looks beyond the obvious trends for 2022 and identifies some potentially challenging issues. These include sustainability reporting, supply chain problems and cloud concentration risk.

Keynote Reports 40 min read
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Adoption of solar power rising at the edge

Photovoltaic (PV) solar — which has become the lowest-cost form of energy in most major countries, according to the International Energy Agency — is set to play an increasing role in limiting the environmental footprint of edge data centers.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
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Resilient edge data centers: Unstaffed, affordable and flexible

Edge data centers need to be resilient to failures. This is commonly achieved by using redundant on-site infrastructure, possibly combined with software-based, distributed resiliency. Generators remain important, but batteries, solar panels and…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
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