New York's data center moratorium is more than a pause on new projects, it is an attempt to make developers partners in rebuilding the grid — and could provide a model for other governments.
Drones can be used to surveil or potentially attack data centers, but operators have limited options to respond. Aviation and airspace regulations restrict intervention, even when drones are flying over a facility.
Rules to protect the electricity grid from large swings in data center power demand are being drafted. But will they arrive before a major data center hub suffers a blackout?
The challenge of managing AI training-related power swings is still relatively new. Addressing these swings at their root cause — the IT hardware itself — can be both technically and economically effective.
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.
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The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey, now in its 16th year, highlights the practices, perceptions, intentions and experiences of data center owners and operators across resiliency, sustainability, efficiency, staffing, cloud and AI.
NERC's draft computational load standards could redefine data centers as active grid participants, requiring new modeling, data reporting, operational coordination and disturbance reporting in a bid to protect grid stability.
This report reviews the key deployment considerations to ensure that risks associated with Li-ion battery energy storage in UPS systems are understood and mitigated appropriately.
Access to the latest hardware and rapid speed of deployment make public cloud attractive; yet today most training workloads run on-premises.
For years, the industry has celebrated a reassuring trend: despite a growing number of outages, resiliency has continued to improve. But as AI-driven expansion accelerates, that long-running improvement may be about to stall: or even reverse.
Can batteries transform how data centers power AI and connect to the grid? To do so, BESS technologies will need further economic and technical improvements to unlock faster interconnections, cleaner energy and smarter power control.
Vendors and consultants expect broad and rapid adoption of AI in data center management, but they may be overestimating operators' appetite for change.
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 alert from the North American grid connection authority shows that data centers will be treated similarly to generation assets when requesting power connections, requiring operators to share more information and permit operational monitoring.
Preventing outages continues to be a central focus for data center owners and operators. While infrastructure design and resiliency frameworks have improved in many cases, the complexity of modern architectures continues to present new risks that…
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