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Andy Lawrence
24 May 2024
High-impact outages highlight ongoing resiliency challenges

Three recent data center outages illustrate the truth of the adage: “You can’t contract out responsibility.”

Intelligence Updates 5 min read
Andy Lawrence Jay Dietrich
22 May 2024
REPLAY | Webinar: Sustainability and Water: Options to Address This Emerging Challenge

This webinar explores low water use cooling system innovations and water management strategies that can help operators navigate the sustainability and reliability implications associated with water use.

On-Demand Webinars 60 min
Jay Dietrich
21 May 2024
Data center sustainability standards

This briefing report identifies and describes a number of de facto standards and laws used in the field of data center sustainability and efficiency (for convenience, we use the term “standards” for all).

Briefing Reports 12 min read
Jabari Williams-George Jacqueline Davis
20 May 2024
Is this air cooling’s last gasp?

Alongside continued developments in liquid cooling, there are reports of air-cooled data centers that achieve standout levels of efficiency. Uptime explores the factors that combine to enable exceptional efficiency in air cooling.

Intelligence Updates 6 min read
Peter Judge
16 May 2024
Why DC racks are still rarely used outside of hyperscalers

Hyperscalers use DC busbars in their racks. Proven at large scale, the technology saves energy and materials, but without a market for DC servers that meets the needs of smaller operators and enterprises, no one else will use it.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Rosa Lawrence Daniel Bizo
13 May 2024
Anatomy of a thermal runaway

While the fire risk with lithium-ion batteries is widely understood, guidance on how best to mitigate it is still evolving. Controlling a Li-ion fire is difficult because of chemistry that creates the risk of thermal runaway.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Jay Paidipati Jay Dietrich
8 May 2024
REPLAY | Webinar: Assessing Data Center Sustainability: Benchmarking and Best Practices

The increasing visibility of the data center sector, partly due to the significant growth in aggregate energy use and carbon emissions within the sector, has led to increased scrutiny of data centers’ individual and collective environmental…

On-Demand Webinars 60 min
Max Smolaks John O'Brien Daniel Bizo
7 May 2024
The impact of AI on data center operations (Part I)

This report outlines the characteristics of machine learning (ML) applications, describes production use cases for ML-based software in data center M&O, and profiles several vendors offering AI-based functionality in their products.

Keynote Reports 24 min read
Douglas Donnellan
7 May 2024
Operators are pushing net-zero targets beyond 2030

Goals for achieving net-zero emissions by 2030 are being extended, according to Uptime Institute survey data. This is likely driven by stricter reporting requirements, rising costs and limited availability of carbon-free energy.

Intelligence Updates 3 min read
Jabari Williams-George Daniel Bizo
3 May 2024
Capacity planning for liquid-cooled data centers

It is becoming a near certainty that many facility operators will use direct liquid cooling within a few years. This raises a number of engineering questions, one of which is how to size coolant distribution units.

Intelligence Updates 8 min read
Anthony Sbarra
1 May 2024
Uptime Institute 2024 Cooling Systems Survey [Results and Crosstab files]

The May 2024 Uptime Institute Cooling Systems Survey explores the adoption, usage, and benefits of various cooling systems in the data center. The attached data files below provide full results of the survey, including data cuts based on…

Data Assets
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
1 May 2024
Maturity model for sustainability downplays site-level resiliency

Sometime after 2026, the EU is expected to adopt an upcoming version of CENELEC’s TS 50600-5-1 Maturity Model to assess data center sustainability. The current technical specification has some controversial elements.

Intelligence Updates 7 min read
Jacqueline Davis
30 Apr 2024
Underwater data centers: lessons from the deep

Underwater data centers promise to be both economical and sustainable. The prerequisite densification of infrastructure and unmanned operations may only suit specific workloads, but lessons learned under water may influence land facilities.

Briefing Reports 12 min read
Douglas Donnellan
29 Apr 2024
DLC momentum rises, but operators remain cautious

Adoption of direct liquid cooling (DLC) continues to grow slowly, according to recent Uptime research. However, more operators are considering it for future use due to mounting thermal management and sustainability challenges.

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Dr. Tomas Rahkonen
29 Apr 2024
Increased requirements for Scope 3 reporting and energy certificates

This report looks at the leading frameworks for carbon reporting with regards to energy attribute certificates (EACs) and Scope 3, including their sector-specific guidance (if any) for data centers.

Briefing Reports 24 min read