Power remains the top spending priority for most operators in 2025, but enterprises are set to increase IT hardware spending.
The EU’s NIS 2 directive requires all organizations operating in Europe to comply with 10 essential cybersecurity measures, but many data center operators remain unprepared.
Cloud providers need to win AI use cases in their early stages of development. If they fail to attract customers, their AI applications may be locked-in to rival platforms and harder to move, which can have serious repercussions.
The cost and complexity of deploying large-scale GPU clusters for generative AI training will drive many enterprises to the public cloud. Most enterprises will use pre-trained foundation models, to reduce computational overheads.
While the aim of FinOps is to manage just the cloud costs, technology business management seeks to aggregate all costs of IT, including data centers, servers, software and labor, to identify savings and manage return on investment.
The number of proposals for new hyperscale-size data centers have reached new heights in 2024. Those that are built will require huge investment and resources — but many proposals will fail to move forward.
Data center operating and capital costs have been rising strongly in recent years — and will almost certainly continue to do so. Sooner or later, those in the IT supply chain will need to deliver their backers a return on investment.
The UK has become the latest nation to classify data centers as part of the critical national infrastructure. But for data center operators, is this a welcome move?
This report provides a regional view of the results from the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2024 and highlights some of the different challenges and strategies of data center owners and operators across the globe.
The main challenges facing their customers, according to suppliers that responded to the Global Data Center Survey 2024, is predicting future data center capacity and the impact that staffing shortages will have on capacity growth.
The data center industry's largest and most influential survey results are in! Join us as we discuss the 14th Annual Uptime Global Data Center Survey 2024 which reveals an industry that is expanding, and is also planning for major technological, econ...
Douglas Donnellan
Andy Lawrence
Daniel Bizo
Peter Judge
John O'Brien
Jacqueline Davis
Max Smolaks
Jabari Williams-George
Rose Weinschenk
The 14th 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.
Uptime Institute's 2024 Data Center Maintenance Survey benchmarked maintenance practices among data center operators to help organizations improve performance when it comes to maintenance practices
According to a recent court ruling, European organizations are required to charge value added tax (VAT) on waste heat that they give away for free. This calls into question the economics of waste heat reuse.
In response to stronger environmental legislation, data center operators in European countries are making greater investments in data center efficiency — as well as increasing their reporting.
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