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Madeleine Kudritzki Ryan Orr

26 Mar 2025

In today’s quickly evolving market, staying up to date on industry developments can be challenging. Join us for a deep dive on how transforming your operations can make your organization more resilient to evolving technologies, staffing, and regulati...

Rose Weinschenk

19 Mar 2025

Data shows that cuts to workforce initiatives and mentorships had little effect on the proportion of new hires in 2024. Owners and operators can consider reassessing and restructuring these programs.

Rose Weinschenk

14 Nov 2024

Staff shortages and recruitment challenges remain the key workforce challenges facing data center owners and operators in 2024. This report highlights some of the findings from the Uptime Institute Staffing and Recruitment Survey 2024.

Anthony Sbarra Laurie Williams

19 Sep 2024

Uptime Institute's 2024 Staffing and Recruitment Survey (n=857) focuses on increases in new data center hires and salary spending, as well as issues operators face in recruiting, hiring, and retaining data center facilities staff.The attached data fi...

Jay Dietrich Rose Weinschenk

6 Aug 2024

Data center teams and their suppliers need to build a coherent, achievable sustainability strategy to address emerging regulations. Managers should clarify roles and set cross-functional metrics to achieve sustainability goals.

Andy Lawrence Chris Brown Daniel Bizo Douglas Donnellan

31 Jul 2024

The data center industry's largest and most influential survey results are in! Join us as we discuss the 14th Annual Uptime Global Data Center Survey 2024 which reveals an industry that is expanding, and is also planning for major technological, econ...

Douglas Donnellan Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Peter Judge John O'Brien Jacqueline Davis Max Smolaks Jabari Williams-George Rose Weinschenk

26 Jul 2024

The 14th edition of the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey highlights the experiences and strategies of data center owners and operators in the areas of resiliency, sustainability, efficiency, staffing, cloud and AI.

Rose Weinschenk

27 Jun 2024

Investing in recruitment initiatives and exploring underutilized talent pools could help data centers overcome current recruitment difficulties in sourcing appropriate candidates.

Anthony Sbarra Laurie Williams

2 May 2024

The 14th edition of the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey highlights the experiences and strategies of data center owners and operators in the areas of resiliency, sustainability, efficiency, staffing, cloud and AI. The attached data files ...

Rose Weinschenk

27 Feb 2024

Data center operator shifts typically range from seven to 12 hours. Longer shifts are often preferred by employees, but can introduce significant risks.

Rose Weinschenk Douglas Donnellan

7 Dec 2023

Short-term tactics to reduce staff shortages are failing to offset the aging out of staff. Companies are neither investing in the retention and development of staff nor are they expanding their search to underutilized talent pools.

Douglas Donnellan

17 Oct 2023

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.

Jacqueline Davis

14 Aug 2023

Two persistent trends in data center staffing are in apparent tension. The 2023 Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey confirmed, once again, that operations teams are struggling to attract and retain qualified staff. The severity of this shortag...

Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Chris Brown Jacqueline Davis

18 Jul 2023

The data center industry's largest and most influential survey results are in! Join us as we discuss the 13th Annual Uptime Global Data Center Survey 2023 which reveals an industry that is growing, dynamic and increasingly resilient.

Max Smolaks

15 Jun 2023

The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the public’s imaginations, and now barely a week goes by without reports of another breakthrough. Among the many, sometimes dramatic predictions made by experts and non-experts alike is the poten...