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Douglas Donnellan Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Max Smolaks Jacqueline Davis John O'Brien

4 Jan 2024

Uptime Intelligence looks beyond the more obvious trends of 2024 and identifies some challenging issues. Strong IT demand, high-density IT systems and tough sustainability requirements will drive a new wave of investment.

Jacqueline Davis

11 Dec 2023

As operators deploy cold plate and immersion cooling, the cost or operational efficiency benefits are bound to disappoint. DLC alone will not bring the breakthrough in energy or sustainability performance the industry needs.

Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich

5 Dec 2023

This webinar explores the data management process improvements necessary to track and report work per energy performance to meet customer expectations and regulatory mandates.

Jacqueline Davis John O'Brien

23 Nov 2023

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.

Jay Dietrich

20 Nov 2023

The thresholds set by Germany’s Energy Efficiency Act could make many legacy enterprise data centers obsolete — or else require operators to upgrade or move to compliant facilities

Jay Dietrich

16 Nov 2023

This report explains the nuances of using energy consumption, energy attribute certificates and emissions factor data to calculate the use of renewable energy and carbon-free energy, and a Scope 1 and 2 emissions inventory.

Jay Dietrich

10 Nov 2023

The final publication of the approved EED means that data center operators will need to undertake internal efforts to comply with energy management system and data reporting requirements.

Andy Lawrence

23 Oct 2023

Executives in many industries have been bold with their sustainability claims, setting ambitious net-zero goals and heralding minor successes. For digital infrastructure, as elsewhere, a painful and expensive correction is coming.

Max Smolaks

2 Oct 2023

Recovery of data center waste heat is garnering renewed interest for its sustainability credentials. This report investigates these initiatives and looks at their impact both on efficiency and cost.

Andy Lawrence

14 Sep 2023

Attitudes to critical infrastructure regulation vary across the world, with the regulators and the regulated mostly agreeing about the goal, role and application of new rules. The US, however, remains an outlier.

Lenny Simon

8 Sep 2023

Few operators compile and report the primary operational data needed to create effective sustainability programs and fulfill regulatory requirements, Uptime research suggests.

Jay Dietrich

4 Sep 2023

This Q&A brings together questions and answers from a webinar on the transactions per megawatt hour metric. Topics include power management, server refresh and sustainability, GHG emissions, IT metrics and utilization rates.

Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich

29 Aug 2023

This session covers common digital infrastructure sustainability myths, misunderstandings, and poorly understood areas, and provides advise on building better sustainability strategies.

Daniel Bizo

21 Aug 2023

Industry average PUE has not improved consistently for some years now, according to Uptime Institute’s annual survey. However, the headline number may be masking underlying dynamics of meaningful improvements.

Douglas Donnellan

7 Aug 2023

As part of the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2023, data center equipment vendors and consultants were asked about customer spending, supply chains and DCIM adoption. This report highlights the key findings.