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17 Mar 2025
The operational cost of AI training failures

The high capital and operating costs of infrastructure for AI mean an outage can have a significant financial impact due to lost training hours

 
13 Mar 2025
Should operators continue to prepare for climate risk reporting?

The US’ SEC has withdrawn requirements for climate risk reporting, and the EU is revising its rules. Despite this, strong drivers remain for operators to measure their environmental impact

 
Cloud cost savings depend on application design

Scalability and cost efficiency are the top reasons enterprises migrate to the cloud, but scalability issues due to application design flaws can lead to spiralling costs — and some workload repatriation to on-premises facilities

 
AI load and chiller systems: key considerations

Compared with most traditional data centers, those hosting large AI training workloads require increased attention to dynamic thermal management, including capabilities to handle sudden and substantial load variations effectively.

 
7 Mar 2025
Hardware for AI: options and directions

AI is not a uniform workload — the infrastructure requirements for a particular model depend on a multitude of factors. Systems and silicon designers envision at least three approaches to developing and delivering AI.

 
Deconstructing NIMBY: how to avoid planning conflicts

Understanding the principles of human behavior and how they relate to community engagement and siting strategies can reduce potential conflict between data centers and local residents

 
Are data centers to blame for power quality issues?

Large data centers can affect grid power quality, inviting community scrutiny. Best practices already protect power quality in facilities and grids, but operators may need to increase monitoring and publicize their efforts.

27 Feb 2025
Outage data shows cloud apps must be designed for failure

On average, cloud apps achieve availabilities of 99.97% regardless of their architecture. However, for the unlucky few that experience issues, a dual-region design has five times less downtime than one based on a single data center.

 
26 Feb 2025
Small modular reactors: building critical mass

SMRs promise to usher in an era of dispatchable low-carbon energy. At present, however, their future is a blurry expanse of possibilities rather than a clear path ahead, as key questions of costs, timelines and operations remain.

Intelligence Updates 10 min read
 
19 Feb 2025
Agentic AI shows promise – but also carries risk

Agentic AI offers enormous potential to the data center industry over the next decade. But are the benefits worth the inevitable risks?

 
18 Feb 2025
Remaining EED reporting deficiencies need immediate attention

The European Commission, with the assistance of operators, needs to correct ambiguities in the EED reporting processes. Industry solutions can improve the quality and completeness of the submitted data.

13 Feb 2025
EED delegated report due early May — what's the rush?

The European Commission will soon publish its delegated report, recommending a data center rating scheme and performance standards. The accelerated timeline is too short to facilitate meaningful evaluation of these topics.

 
The DeepSeek paradox: more efficiency, more infrastructure?

The emergence of the Chinese DeepSeek LLM has raised many questions. In this analysis, Uptime Intelligence considers some of the implications for all those primarily concerned with the deployment of AI infrastructure.

Intelligence Updates 10 min read
 
AI infrastructure ambitions will be cut down to size

Operators and investors are planning to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on supersized sites and vast supporting infrastructures. However, increasing constraints and uncertainties will limit the scale of these build outs.

 
6 Feb 2025
US state drafts plan for data center regulations

The New York state senate recently proposed legislation mandating data center information reporting and operational requirements. Although the Bill is unlikely to pass, the legislation indicates a likely framework for future regulation

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