This summary of the 2025 predictions highlights the growing concerns and opportunities around AI for data centers.
Douglas Donnellan
Douglas is a Research Analyst at Uptime Institute covering sustainability in data centers. His background includes environmental research and communications, with a strong focus on education.
ddonnellan@uptimeinstitute.com
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Uptime Intelligence looks beyond the more obvious trends of 2025 and examines some of the latest developments and challenges shaping the data center industry.
Enterprise and colocation operators face rising costs in 2025
Power remains the top spending priority for most operators in 2025, but enterprises are set to increase IT hardware spending.
Uptime Intelligence Research Agenda
The Uptime Intelligence research agenda includes a list of published and planned research reports for 2025, and is focused on Uptime Intelligence primary coverage areas: 1) power generation, distribution, energy storage; 2) data center management…
Uptime Intelligence 2024 Research Reports
As a quick reference, we have provided links below to all the research reports published by Uptime Intelligence in 2024, by month. Research areas focused on 1) power generation, distribution, energy storage; 2) data center management software; 3)…
Cyber incidents are common — and often significant
Results from the Uptime Institute Security Survey 2024 highlight the different cybersecurity approaches used by operators against a widening range of threats.
Weak security processes can increase impact of failures
Data center outage recovery processes often overlook integrated cybersecurity systems. Power outages can disrupt these systems and prevent operators from accessing critical platforms.
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2024: regional view
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.
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2024: supplier view
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.
REPLAY | Uptime Institute global data center survey results 2024
Chris
Brown
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,…
Douglas
Donnellan
Andy
Lawrence
Daniel
Bizo
Peter
Judge
John
O'Brien
Jacqueline
Davis
Max
Smolaks
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.
Operators boost cybersecurity efforts, but more work is needed
Only half of data center operators rate their cyber resiliency assessments as effective, despite three in four operators experiencing a recent cyber incident.
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.
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.
Sustainability strategies face greater pressure in 2024
This report captures some findings from the Uptime Institute Sustainability and Climate Change Survey 2023, including that more than half of operators are still to set a net-zero emissions goal and less than half compile key metrics.
