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Uptime Intelligence Staff
30 Nov 2020
Five trends for 2021: Accountability, automation, edge, sustainability, innovation

What we can expect for mission-critical digital infrastructure in 2021?Each autumn Uptime Institute, like many other organizations, puts together a list of some of the big trends and themes for the year ahead. This time, we have focused on five big…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
23 Nov 2020
Climate change skepticism in the data center

Across the globe, data center operators are under pressure to make data centers more sustainable. To this end, efforts are underway to reduce carbon emissions, water consumption and waste. The big, global and largely US-headquartered giants of the…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
26 Oct 2020
PUE: The golden metric is looking rusty

When the PUE (power usage effectiveness) metric was first discussed at a meeting of The Green Grid in Santa Clara, back in 2007, a microphone stand was placed in each aisle of the auditorium. The importance of the initiative was understood even then…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
11 Sep 2020
Managing risks associated with wildfires

As discussed in Note #71 (In thunder, lightning, or in rain?), climate change requires data center managers to not only review existing emergency plans but also anticipate previously unforeseen challenges.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Chris Brown
11 Sep 2020
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Data centers are built and sited to withstand all that Mother Nature can throw at them — or at least, is likely to throw at them — during their lifecycle. This has long been a given, practiced and understood by designers, planners and regulators.But…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
5 Aug 2020
Lithium-ion batteries: An ethical dimension?

One of the emerging trends in data centers is the use of lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries, both for distributed and centralized uninterruptible power supplies. Research by Uptime Institute and others predicts high levels of adoption in the years ahead…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
30 Jul 2020
Which regions have the most energy efficient data centers?

When the PUE (power usage effectiveness) metric for data centers was first agreed upon by the members of The Green Grid back in 2007, almost everyone in that crowded room in California agreed: This is not intended to be used as comparative metric;…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
13 Jul 2020
Uptime Institute global data center survey 2020

The tenth Uptime Institute annual survey is the largest and most comprehensive research study of its kind in the data center sector.

Keynote Reports 10 min read
Andy Lawrence
27 Apr 2020
Data center PUEs flat since 2013

The average power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio for a data center in 2020 is 1.58, only marginally better than 7 years ago, according to the latest annual Uptime Institute survey (findings to be published shortly).PUE, an international standard…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
12 Mar 2020
COVID-19 preparedness: More organizations move from planning to implementation

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.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
19 Nov 2019
Trends to watch in 2020

The full report Ten data center industry trends in 2020 is available to Uptime Intelligence subscribers here.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
6 Nov 2019
Data centers without generators: The groundwork is being laid

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,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
12 Aug 2019
Data center free air cooling trends

With the recent expansion of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ (ASHRAE’s) acceptable data center operating temperature and humidity ranges — taken as an industry-standard best practice by many operators…

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Andy Lawrence
23 Apr 2019
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2019

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?

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Andy Lawrence
17 Apr 2019
Recover heat, re-charge power

Recently I attended the Data Center Dynamics (DCD) Smart Energy conference in Stockholm. During a panel discussion on energy, data centers and innovation, David Hall (Senior Director of Technology Innovation for Equinix) made two observations,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read