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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
Jacqueline Davis Daniel Bizo
27 Apr 2022
The ultimate liquid cooling: heat rejection into water

Uptime Institute’s data on power usage effectiveness (PUE) is a testament to the progress the data center industry has made in energy efficiency over the past 10 years. However, global average PUEs have been largely stalling at close to 1.6 since…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
14 Apr 2022
The shock waves from Ukraine

How is the Ukraine conflict affecting digital infrastructure and the data sector? In response to multiple queries, Uptime Institute Intelligence has identified six main areas where operators and customers of digital infrastructure are experiencing…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jay Dietrich Andy Lawrence
11 Apr 2022
Digital infrastructure sustainability – a manager’s guide

This series of Uptime Intelligence reports guides managers and responsible operators through the complex set of issues involved in creating an environmental sustainability strategy for data centers and associated digital infrastructure.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
6 Apr 2022
Cloud SLAs punish, not compensate

A service level agreement (SLA) is a contract between a cloud provider and a user. The SLA describes the provider’s minimum level of service, specified by performance metrics, and the compensation due to the user should the provider fail to deliver…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
29 Mar 2022
Cloud price increases damage trust

In general, the prices of cloud services either remain level or decrease. There are occasional price increases, but these are typically restricted to specific features; blanket price increases across product families are rare.Price cuts are often…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Lenny Simon Daniel Bizo
24 Mar 2022
Direct liquid cooling bubbles to the surface

Conditions will soon be ripe for widespread use of direct liquid cooling (DLC) — a collection of techniques that uses fluid to remove heat from IT electronics instead of air — and it may even become essential.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
17 Mar 2022
Cloud generations drive down prices

Cloud providers need to deliver the newest capability to stay relevant. Few enterprises will accept working with outdated technology just because it's consumable as a cloud service. However, existing cloud instances don’t migrate automatically.…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
24 Feb 2022
Industry consensus on sustainability looks fragile

Pressed by a sense of urgency among scientists and the wider public, and by governments and investors who must fulfil promises made at COP (Conference of the Parties) summits, major businesses are facing ever more stringent sustainability reporting…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
15 Feb 2022
Why cloud is a kludge of complexity

The cloud model was designed to be simple and nimble. Simple and nimble doesn’t necessarily mean fit for purpose. Over the past decade, new layers of capability have been added to cloud to address its shortcomings. While this has created more…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Lenny Simon
14 Feb 2022
Data center operators give themselves a “Fail” for sustainability

The global data center industry describes its own sustainability performance as average, compared with other industries — and most think efforts are not substantially reducing environmental impacts.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
7 Feb 2022
Supply problems favor standardization and scale

The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed supply chains globally, resulting in higher prices and increased delivery times for many components. Shortages and delays are likely to persist into 2022 and beyond as demand for IT, and for new data center…

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Daniel Bizo
3 Feb 2022
Moore’s law resumes – but not for all

In recent years, the IT industry and trade press were abuzz about the end of Moore’s law (the expectation that the scale of integration for chips doubles about every two years), and what that means for IT buyers. IT buyers saw a slowdown of…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Owen Rogers
24 Jan 2022
Flexibility drives cloud lock-in risk

Vendor lock-in is regularly levied as a criticism of cloud services. But the reality of IT is, there has always been lock-in. Even before cloud, enterprises were locked into hardware, operating systems, database platforms, data centers and network…

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Andy Lawrence
21 Jan 2022
Data center operators ponder the nuclear option

As major businesses feel a growing sense of urgency to dramatically cut carbon emissions, opinions are starting to shift in favor of nuclear power, which is not classed as clean, but is a near-zero carbon energy source. The digital infrastructure…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read