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Max Smolaks Douglas Donnellan
26 Jan 2023
Data center costs set to rise and rise

Up until two years ago, the cost of building and operating data centers had been falling reasonably steeply. While labor costs have risen during this time, better management, processes and automation have helped to prevent spiraling wage bills.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
19 Jan 2023
Accounting for digital infrastructure GHG emissions

A host of regulations worldwide have introduced (or will introduce) legal mandates forcing data center operators to report specific operational data and metrics.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
18 Jan 2023
High costs drive cloud repatriation, but impact is overstated

Unexpected costs are driving some data-heavy and legacy applications back from public-cloud to on-premises locations. However, very few organizations are moving away from the public cloud strategically — let alone altogether.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Douglas Donnellan
16 Jan 2023
EU bids farewell to 2022 with a host of resiliency regulations

European Union (EU) regulators wrapped up 2022 with new legislation introducing stricter requirements for data center operators. Four major regulations were passed (with strong majorities) in the European Parliament — most of these having been…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich
12 Jan 2023
EED recast: new reporting proposals raise confidentiality concerns

The European Commission (EC) has published a draft technical document on data center metrics and reporting obligations in support of the deployment of its Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) recast. The Directive is intended to encourage operators to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo Lenny Simon Max Smolaks
10 Jan 2023
Geopolitics deepens supply chain worries

The COVID-19 pandemic — and the subsequent disruption to supply chains — demonstrated the data center industry’s reliance on interdependent global markets and the components they produce. Although the data center sector was just one of many…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Dr. Owen Rogers Jacqueline Davis Max Smolaks Lenny Simon Douglas Donnellan
5 Jan 2023
Five data center predictions for 2023

Uptime Institute Intelligence looks beyond some of the more obvious trends of 2023 — that the sector continues to expand and innovate while facing stricter regulatory requirements — and identifies some challenging issues.

Keynote Reports 50 min read
Douglas Donnellan
3 Jan 2023
Uptime Institute Data Center and IT Spending Survey 2022

Results from Uptime Institute’s Data Center and IT Spending Survey 2022 reveal how enterprise operators and colocation providers are adapting their spending strategies to meet the growing demand for digital services.

Data Reports 10 min read
Douglas Donnellan Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich
19 Sep 2022
EU’s EED recast set to create reporting challenges

The European Commission’s (EC’s) proposed recast of its Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) sets out new and strict reporting requirements for data centers operating in the EU. If passed, data centers with 100 kilowatts or more total installed IT…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Dr. Owen Rogers Jacqueline Davis Max Smolaks Lenny Simon Douglas Donnellan
7 Sep 2022
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2022

The Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey is the most comprehensive of its kind. The findings reveal the experiences of data center operators in the areas of performance, resiliency, efficiency and sustainability.

Keynote Reports 45 min read
Daniel Bizo
5 Aug 2022
Equipment shortages may ease soon — but not for good reasons

When Uptime Institute Intelligence surveyed data center infrastructure operators about supply chain issues in August 2021, more than two-thirds of respondents had experienced some shortages in the previous 18 months. Larger operations bore the brunt…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
19 Jul 2022
Alternative clouds are vulnerable to demanding buyers

Although big-name hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft dominate the cloud arena, other companies also believe they have a role to play. Vultr, OVHcloud, Linode, DigitalOcean, Bluehost and Scaleway, for example, don’t offer huge…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo
5 Jul 2022
AMD plans major steps in server chip efficiency

Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has successfully mounted a challenge to Intel’s dominance in data center processors by focusing on energy-efficient server chips. AMD plans to further expand its presence in data centers by bringing more…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Lenny Simon Daniel Bizo
6 May 2022
Crypto data centers: the good, the bad and the electric

A single tweet in May 2021 brought unprecedented public attention to a relatively unknown issue. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that because of the large energy consumption associated with the use of Bitcoin, Tesla would no longer accept it as currency…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich
3 May 2022
Creating a sustainability strategy

This report, the first in a series, sets out the main elements of a digital infrastructure sustainability strategy and details some of the processes, challenges, metrics and outcomes.

Keynote Reports 20 min read