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Profile picture for user jdietrich Jay Dietrich Profile picture for user alawrence Andy Lawrence
Digital infrastructure sustainability – a manager’s guide

This series of Uptime Intelligence reports guides managers and responsible operators through the complex set of issues involved in creating an environmental sustainability strategy for data centers and associated digital infrastructure.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Profile picture for user dbizo Daniel Bizo
Direct liquid cooling bubbles to the surface

Conditions will soon be ripe for widespread use of direct liquid cooling (DLC) — a collection of techniques that uses fluid to remove heat from IT electronics instead of air — and it may even become essential.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Profile picture for user ddonnellan Douglas Donnellan Profile picture for user alawrence Andy Lawrence
Financial resiliency: how Europe plans to regulate service providers

The proposed Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will introduce new reporting and resiliency requirements in Europe - and many authorities around the world are expected to be heavily influenced by these plans.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Profile picture for user JDavis Jacqueline Davis Profile picture for user dbizo Daniel Bizo
The other water-cooled data center

Once-through water heat rejection systems, also known as once-through cooling systems, are energy and water efficient. This report explores different designs and provides real-world case studies of colocation providers using them.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Profile picture for user alawrence Andy Lawrence
Industry consensus on sustainability looks fragile

Pressed by a sense of urgency among scientists and the wider public, and by governments and investors who must fulfil promises made at COP (Conference of the Parties) summits, major businesses are facing ever more stringent sustainability reporting…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Data center operators give themselves a “Fail” for sustainability

The global data center industry describes its own sustainability performance as average, compared with other industries — and most think efforts are not substantially reducing environmental impacts.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Profile picture for user alawrence Andy Lawrence
Data center operators ponder the nuclear option

As major businesses feel a growing sense of urgency to dramatically cut carbon emissions, opinions are starting to shift in favor of nuclear power, which is not classed as clean, but is a near-zero carbon energy source. The digital infrastructure…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Profile picture for user alawrence Andy Lawrence Profile picture for user dbizo Daniel Bizo Profile picture for user trahkonen Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
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
Profile picture for user dbizo Daniel Bizo
Uptime Institute Climate Change Survey 2021

The findings of this survey suggest that data center operators are attentive to the growing risks from climate change and extreme weather events.

Data Reports 10 min read
Profile picture for user alawrence Andy Lawrence
Are proof-of-work blockchains a corporate sustainability issue?

The data center and IT industry is a relatively minor — but nevertheless significant — contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. The issue of wasteful digital infrastructure energy consumption is now high on many corporate agendas and is prompting…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Profile picture for user dbizo Daniel Bizo Profile picture for user JDavis Jacqueline Davis
Uptime Institute Data Center Cooling Systems Survey 2021

Air cooling dominates the modern data center, and in defiance of forecasts, direct liquid cooling (DLC) remains a niche technology. If DLC overcomes barriers to adoption, when can we expect it to overtake air cooling?

Data Reports 10 min read
Profile picture for user JDavis Jacqueline Davis Profile picture for user ddonnellan Douglas Donnellan
Bring on regulations for data center sustainability, say Europe and APAC

As the data center sector increases its focus on becoming more environmentally sustainable, regulators still have a part to play — the question is to what extent? In a recent Uptime Institute survey of nearly 400 data center operators and suppliers…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Profile picture for user alawrence Andy Lawrence
Climate change: More operators prepare to weather the storms

In the 2020 Uptime Institute Intelligence report The gathering storm: Climate change and data center resiliency, the author noted that, “While sustainability… features heavily in the marketing of many operators, the threat of extreme weather to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Profile picture for user JDavis Jacqueline Davis
Does the spread of direct liquid cooling make PUE less relevant?

The power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric is predominant thanks to its universal applicability and its simplicity: energy used by the entire data center, divided by energy used by the IT equipment. However, its simplicity could limit its future…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Profile picture for user JDavis Jacqueline Davis
Uptime Institute global supply-side survey 2021

The survey finds spending on data centers is growing; forecasting capacity is the largest operator challenge; and the use of lithium-ion batteries and other technologies is more common.

Keynote Reports 18 min read