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Peter Judge
16 May 2024
Why DC racks are still rarely used outside of hyperscalers

Hyperscalers use DC busbars in their racks. Proven at large scale, the technology saves energy and materials, but without a market for DC servers that meets the needs of smaller operators and enterprises, no one else will use it.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Rosa Lawrence Daniel Bizo
13 May 2024
Anatomy of a thermal runaway

While the fire risk with lithium-ion batteries is widely understood, guidance on how best to mitigate it is still evolving. Controlling a Li-ion fire is difficult because of chemistry that creates the risk of thermal runaway.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Peter Judge
24 Apr 2024
Uncertain power demand figures will lead to poor decisions

Electric grids face serious issues largely because of national efforts to reduce carbon emissions and boost electrification. Data center growth will add to these problems — but unreliable data could lead to poor decision-making.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo
13 Mar 2024
Generative AI and global power consumption: high, but not that high

Preliminary calculations by Uptime Intelligence suggest the initial impact of generative AI on global data center power use is low — but it will rise quickly as adoption increases. How far generative AI will go remains unclear.

Intelligence Updates 5 min read
Jay Dietrich
5 Mar 2024
US mandates crypto energy reporting: will data centers be next?

The US Energy Information Administration has obtained an order requiring cryptocurrency mining operations to report their energy use. It is likely that traditional data centers will also be required to report energy consumption in 2024.

Intelligence Updates 5 min read
Douglas Donnellan
19 Feb 2024
Most operators plan to spend more on rising demand

Data center budgets are expected to increase in 2024 for most organizations, but ongoing supply chain issues and staffing challenges may restrict investments, according to recent Uptime Intelligence survey data.

Data Reports 7 min read
Rosa Lawrence Daniel Bizo
16 Feb 2024
EU battery regulations: what do the new rules mean?

New EU legislation will raise recycling and reporting standards for batteries, regardless of chemistries. Although motivated by battery use in electric vehicles, the regulations also place obligations on data center operators.

Intelligence Updates 2 min read
Daniel Bizo
9 Feb 2024
Managing server performance for power: a missed opportunity

There is more to managing server power than just conserving energy when the machine is idle. Another side to optimizing energy performance involves setting processor performance levels appropriate for the application.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Daniel Bizo
26 Jan 2024
Understanding how server power management works

Without the active contribution from IT, data center infrastructure energy performance and sustainability will fall short of aspirations. Server power management features remain unexplored and underused by most efficiency initiatives.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Douglas Donnellan Jay Dietrich
25 Jan 2024
Tools to watch and improve power use by IT are underused

Operators are missing opportunities to lower costs and energy use by not using utilization and power management data, an Uptime Intelligence survey on IT and power efficiency suggests.

Data Reports 8 min read
Andy Lawrence
23 Jan 2024
Resiliency v. low PUE: regulators a catalyst for innovation?

Germany’s Energy Efficiency Act makes a PUE of 1.2 mandatory for all new data centers starting in 2026. This has reignited a debate: can a data center be both highly available and highly efficient?

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Douglas Donnellan
18 Jan 2024
Colocation and public cloud growth masks enterprise expansion

Large colocation and public cloud companies have been growing strongly and very publicly, but enterprises continue to add data center capacity too, Uptime Intelligence data shows.

Intelligence Updates 3 min read
Douglas Donnellan
1 Jan 2024
Uptime Intelligence Research Agenda

The latest Uptime Intelligence research agenda includes a list all published and planned reports from January 2024 to October 2024, and is focused on Uptime Intelligence primary coverage areas: 1) power generation, distribution, energy storage; 2)…

Intelligence Updates 9 min read
Daniel Bizo
14 Dec 2023
Hunger for AI will have limited impact on most operators

Despite high expectations, most operators will only see moderate impact from specialized AI hardware installations in the immediate future. The emergence of AI as a major force will sway the industry in a more profound, but less direct, fashion.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Jacqueline Davis John O'Brien
23 Nov 2023
Large data centers are mostly more efficient, analysis confirms

New survey data allows Uptime Institute to look at industry power usage effectiveness (PUE) in finer detail. Comparing PUE by compute capacity shows that, on average, larger sites have lower PUEs.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read