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Jabari Williams-George Daniel Bizo
6 Feb 2024
Air-assisted direct liquid cooling: an overlooked option

Air-assisted direct liquid cooling systems offer trade-offs that make them attractive to operators looking to address server cooling and rack density challenges — and are relatively easy to install and maintain.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
Daniel Bizo
26 Jan 2024
Understanding how server power management works

Without the active contribution from IT, data center infrastructure energy performance and sustainability will fall short of aspirations. Server power management features remain unexplored and underused by most efficiency initiatives.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Douglas Donnellan Jay Dietrich
25 Jan 2024
Tools to watch and improve power use by IT are underused

Operators are missing opportunities to lower costs and energy use by not using utilization and power management data, an Uptime Intelligence survey on IT and power efficiency suggests.

Data Reports 8 min read
Andy Lawrence
23 Jan 2024
Resiliency v. low PUE: regulators a catalyst for innovation?

Germany’s Energy Efficiency Act makes a PUE of 1.2 mandatory for all new data centers starting in 2026. This has reignited a debate: can a data center be both highly available and highly efficient?

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Jay Dietrich
22 Jan 2024
EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive: proposed reporting revisions

Most of Europe’s Energy Efficient Directive (EED) requirements are set, but key issues remain. The draft EED delegated act, the last step to finalizing information and key performance indicators, is released for comments and revision.

Briefing Reports 15 min read
Douglas Donnellan Jay Dietrich
19 Dec 2023
Tracking of IT equipment varies widely and often falls short

Results from the Uptime Institute IT and Power Efficiency Survey 2023 suggest that many organizations may struggle to meet regulatory requirements for energy, carbon and IT life cycle tracking.

Data Reports 8 min read
Jacqueline Davis
11 Dec 2023
DLC will not come to the rescue of data center sustainability

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.

Intelligence Updates 9 min read
Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich
5 Dec 2023
REPLAY | Webinar: Collecting & Aggregating Operating Data to Demonstrate Sustainability Performance

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

On-Demand Webinars 60 min
Jacqueline Davis John O'Brien
23 Nov 2023
Large data centers are mostly more efficient, analysis confirms

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.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich
9 Nov 2023
REPLAY | Webinar: Critical Scope 3 Accounting: Quantifying Cloud, Colo & Embedded Carbon Emissions

This session evaluates the methodologies to account for emissions from IT operations in cloud and colocation facilities and embedded carbon in IT equipment purchases, and discusses their management as part of a net zero program.

On-Demand Webinars 60 min
John O'Brien Andy Lawrence
31 Oct 2023
"Hyperscale colocation": the emergence of gigawatt campuses

Gigantic “gigawatt” data center campuses are being proposed or planned in many locations around the world. They could change the digital infrastructure landscape, but many questions — including how many will be built — remain.

Intelligence Updates 5 min read
Douglas Donnellan
17 Oct 2023
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2023: North America view

The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2023 provided insights and site data from owners and operators globally. The findings from North America reveal key differences in the areas of staffing, energy, cloud and AI.

Data Reports 7 min read
Jay Dietrich
15 Sep 2023
Emerging regulatory requirements: tactics for riding the tsunami

Over the next decade, digital infrastructure operations will need to comply with an emerging set of regulatory requirements. Managers can smooth the path to compliance by focusing on business processes and data collection.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
4 Sep 2023
IT sustainability: achieving more transactions per megawatt hour Q&A

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.

20 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
4 Sep 2023
Efficient servers hold the key to energy efficient data centers

Improving data center infrastructure energy efficiency is vital in helping organizations contain costs and carbon emissions that result from IT growth. This report compares seven projects using a data- and experience-based model.

Briefing Reports 33 min read