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Andy Lawrence Daniel Bizo Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
6 Jan 2022
Five data center predictions for 2022

In this report, Uptime Institute Intelligence looks beyond the obvious trends for 2022 and identifies some potentially challenging issues. These include sustainability reporting, supply chain problems and cloud concentration risk.

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Daniel Bizo
20 Dec 2021
Uptime Institute Climate Change Survey 2021

The findings of this survey suggest that data center operators are attentive to the growing risks from climate change and extreme weather events.

Data Reports 10 min read
Andy Lawrence
8 Dec 2021
Are proof-of-work blockchains a corporate sustainability issue?

The data center and IT industry is a relatively minor — but nevertheless significant — contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. The issue of wasteful digital infrastructure energy consumption is now high on many corporate agendas and is prompting…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Daniel Bizo Jacqueline Davis
3 Dec 2021
Uptime Institute Data Center Cooling Systems Survey 2021

Air cooling dominates the modern data center, and in defiance of forecasts, direct liquid cooling (DLC) remains a niche technology. If DLC overcomes barriers to adoption, when can we expect it to overtake air cooling?

Data Reports 10 min read
Jacqueline Davis Douglas Donnellan
1 Dec 2021
Bring on regulations for data center sustainability, say Europe and APAC

As the data center sector increases its focus on becoming more environmentally sustainable, regulators still have a part to play — the question is to what extent? In a recent Uptime Institute survey of nearly 400 data center operators and suppliers…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
23 Nov 2021
Climate change: More operators prepare to weather the storms

In the 2020 Uptime Institute Intelligence report The gathering storm: Climate change and data center resiliency, the author noted that, “While sustainability… features heavily in the marketing of many operators, the threat of extreme weather to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jacqueline Davis
26 Oct 2021
Does the spread of direct liquid cooling make PUE less relevant?

The power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric is predominant thanks to its universal applicability and its simplicity: energy used by the entire data center, divided by energy used by the IT equipment. However, its simplicity could limit its future…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jacqueline Davis
18 Oct 2021
Uptime Institute global supply-side survey 2021

The survey finds spending on data centers is growing; forecasting capacity is the largest operator challenge; and the use of lithium-ion batteries and other technologies is more common.

Keynote Reports 18 min read
Jacqueline Davis
18 Oct 2021
Uptime Institute Supply Chain Survey 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic stressed the supply chain for data center equipment and construction. Many expect shortages to persist, driven by the ongoing pandemic and additional challenges.

Data Reports 10 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
8 Oct 2021
Adoption of solar power rising at the edge

Photovoltaic (PV) solar — which has become the lowest-cost form of energy in most major countries, according to the International Energy Agency — is set to play an increasing role in limiting the environmental footprint of edge data centers.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
5 Oct 2021
Too big to fail? Facebook’s global outage

The bigger the outage, the greater the need for explanations and, most importantly, for taking steps to avoid a repeat.By any standards, the outage that affected Facebook on Monday, October 4th, was big. For more than six hours, Facebook and its…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Jacqueline Davis
1 Oct 2021
Supply chain vulnerabilities shape sourcing decisions

Supply chain upheaval is one of the pandemic’s ripple effects, and the data center sector has not been spared. For most operators and vendors, supply logistics will remain a source of uncertainty for the near term. In Uptime Institute’s Global Data…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen Andy Lawrence
24 Sep 2021
Resilient edge data centers: Unstaffed, affordable and flexible

Edge data centers need to be resilient to failures. This is commonly achieved by using redundant on-site infrastructure, possibly combined with software-based, distributed resiliency. Generators remain important, but batteries, solar panels and…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
17 Sep 2021
Mixed resiliency at the edge

Many analysts have forecast an explosion in demand for edge data centers. After a long, slow start, demand is beginning to build, with small, prefabricated and mostly remotely operated data centers ready to be deployed to support a varying array of…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
10 Sep 2021
Vertiv’s DCIM ambitions wither on Trellis’ demise

Operators often say that data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software is a necessary evil. Modern facilities need centralized, real-time management and analytics, but DCIM is notoriously difficult to deploy. The software is also not easy to…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read