When choosing whether to develop a brand new LLM or fine-tune an existing one, the second option often makes more sense. It can be more cost-effective and requires fewer IT and facility resources.
By integrating new natural gas electricity generation with carbon capture, operators can safeguard net-zero targets threatened by a reliance on fossil power — but initial adoption will be costly and limited to specific geographic locations.
Even as meeting the demands of AI infrastructure intensifies, preventing outages remains a top priority for data center operators — yet failures still occur. This report analyzes recent Uptime data on outages — their causes, costs and consequences.
AI applications are becoming critical to enterprise operations, but service availability still varies sharply across providers. Inference services should be evaluated not only on model capability, but on operational maturity.
As US state legislatures face difficulties passing local bans on data centers, opponents are increasingly turning to new regulatory approaches. Data center operators will need to navigate this fragmented policy landscape to stay ahead of compliance.
A new generation of vendors is entering the market to offer prefabricated modular data centers — betting that surging demand for AI will give these facilities a competitive edge.
The 16th edition of the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey highlights the experiences and strategies of data center owners and operators in the areas of resiliency, sustainability, efficiency, staffing, cloud and AI. The attached data files…
IT-OT equipment telemetry offers huge potential to improve visibility into live facility operations, but data exchange often fails because systems and protocols are incompatible.
Cooling systems with similar energy performance can vary significantly in water consumption. An analysis of facility data confirms that evaporative cooling's efficiency advantage may be limited and dependent on unacceptable levels of water use.
On site fuel storage plays a critical role in maintaining data center resiliency. Following best practices will help operators extend the longevity of their on-site diesel stocks and avoid price increases.
Policymakers across the US are reassessing tax incentives for data center operators, reflecting shifting priorities around infrastructure, costs and community impacts.
The European Commission has published the draft Energy efficiency — rating scheme for data centres in Europe, proposing amendments to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1364, with comments due by April 23, 2026.The proposed rating scheme introduces a…
While water cold plates continue to dominate current liquid-cooling adoption, the industry has also turned its attention to different approaches, with two-phase cold plates in particular becoming a promising alternative.
The cost of AI training varies depending on underlying infrastructure and the training approach adopted. This web tool calculates training times and workload infrastructure costs based on configurable data center, infrastructure and model attributes.
Choosing whether to train a model from scratch or fine-tune an existing one comes down to the use case and cost — with hardware utilization remaining an important cost factor.
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