Redundant power and cooling equipment is expected to reduce outages — but by how much? Survey data shows that operators using 2N configurations were up to 64% less likely to report an outage than those using N.
AI can reduce data-center cooling energy consumption, but headline savings rarely tell the whole story. The opportunity lies in system-level optimization that accounts for equipment constraints, changing workloads and the shift to liquid cooling.
AI data center projects often run into delays when developers encounter unfamiliar technologies and unexpected technical challenges. Taking a structured, methodical approach can help keep projects on track.
Meta's decision to give away its latest large language model challenges the narrative around AI infrastructure.
US federal- and state-level ratepayer protection bills and initiatives signal a shift in how data centers interact with the public grid. As policymakers revise grid rules for resource-hungry projects, there is growing debate over how to split costs.
New York's data center moratorium is more than a pause on new projects, it is an attempt to make developers partners in rebuilding the grid — and could provide a model for other governments.
Results from Uptime Institute's 2026 Cooling Systems Survey (n=1,034) focus on the usage of data center cooling systems across the industry, zeroing in on the continued adoption of direct liquid cooling.The attached data files below provide full…
Amid the politics and the build out boom driven by AI, data center operators continue to gather sustainability data — but rarely publicize it.
This report highlights results from vendor and product supplier respondents to the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2026 and provides an insight into the spending strategies, technology adoption and other issues facing their customers.
Drones can be used to surveil or potentially attack data centers, but operators have limited options to respond. Aviation and airspace regulations restrict intervention, even when drones are flying over a facility.
The industry-average PUE decreases slowly, with efficient new data centers offset by legacy facilities. Weighting the average by IT capacity instead reveals a faster pace of efficiency gains from larger new builds.
Heat waves and winter storms test the operational side of data centers. The question is no longer whether systems were designed for extreme weather, but whether operators understand how much headroom is needed to withstand it in practice.
Rules to protect the electricity grid from large swings in data center power demand are being drafted. But will they arrive before a major data center hub suffers a blackout?
The challenge of managing AI training-related power swings is still relatively new. Addressing these swings at their root cause — the IT hardware itself — can be both technically and economically effective.
On average, cloud provider outages affected application availability less in 2025 than in 2024. Yet risk remains: an unfortunate choice of zone or region can subject even well-planned applications to hours of disruption.
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