Superconductivity is still considered an exotic technology, but extreme-density IT will make data center operators take note of this option.
Denmark will classify grid connection applications by their importance to society, placing large data centers in the lowest priority category, as the country seeks to manage the volume of connection requests in the queue.
Texas' Governor has called for an audit of all applications for data center grid connections, also halting environmental permits. This review will impact operators financially, as projects will be delayed until the audit process is complete
This report provides a concise, non-exhaustive overview of key considerations for designing, building and operating IT-agnostic secondary fluid networks for DLC using water-based coolants.
Results from Uptime Institute's 2026 Security Survey (n=826), now in its 4rd year, explore major cybersecurity issues facing data centers, as well as the IT and OT systems used to operate critical infrastructure.The attached data files below provide…
How do you cut a grid connection queue that is simply too long? The UK's regulator Ofgem has proposed a large fee to deter and remove non-viable projects from the queue, but the plan may have unintended consequences.
This report highlights results from vendor and product supplier respondents to the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2026 and provides an insight into the spending strategies, technology adoption and other issues facing their customers.
On average, cloud provider outages affected application availability less in 2025 than in 2024. Yet risk remains: an unfortunate choice of zone or region can subject even well-planned applications to hours of disruption.
Results from Uptime Institute's 2026 Data Center Operations and AI Survey (n=867) focus AI training and AI inference workloads hosted in data centers, as well as how AI workloads are being deployed in terms of data center cooling systems and rack…
Traditional air gap security presents a barrier to applications requiring live IT-OT telemetry data. Rising interest in real-time monitoring and AI-driven operations requires a rethink of outdated, inflexible cybersecurity approaches.
More data center operators are performing AI training in 2026, and this type of workload continues to be distributed across a wide range of data center venues. No single hosting model has emerged as the default.
New flagship AMD and Intel servers with high core counts push performance boundaries while improving efficiencies. This report breaks down and visualizes improvements based on an analysis of SERT data.
In AI model training, idle GPUs — not high prices — are the biggest driver of cost, with poor utilization quietly burning tens of thousands of dollars in wasted compute capacity.
An exclusive focus on densification and DLC (as if they were inevitable) risks becoming tunnel vision that ignores costs and alternative choices. For IT infrastructure not fully transitioning to DLC, keeping densities moderate may make more sense.
When choosing whether to develop a brand new LLM or fine-tune an existing one, the second option often makes more sense. It can be more cost-effective and requires fewer IT and facility resources.
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