On March 12, 2020, Uptime Institute held its second roundtable about the impact of the COVID-19 virus on data center operations and potential responses to its spread. A Note covering the topics discussed in the first roundtable is available here.
The full report Ten data center industry trends in 2020 is available to Uptime Intelligence subscribers here.
In 2012, Microsoft announced that it planned to eliminate engine generators at its big data center campus in Quincy, Washington. Six years later the same group, with much the same aspirations, filed for permission to install 72 diesel generators,β¦
With the recent expansion of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineersβ (ASHRAEβs) acceptable data center operating temperature and humidity ranges β taken as an industry-standard best practice by many operatorsβ¦
Are data centers getting more efficient? How are outages changing? Is rack density rising at last? What proportion of workloads run in the cloud? Which new architectures are being adopted?
In a recent presentation at the Energy Smart conference in Stockholm, Gary Cook, the Greenpeace activist who has tracked data center carbon emissions for a decade, showed a slide of logos, indicating companies that have made a commitment to use 100β¦
For the better part of a decade, operators have agonized over how to reduce energy waste. By and large, they have succeededβthe average PUE, the industryβs most common infrastructure efficiency metric, was a record low in this year βs survey.